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- AMAZING MEDIA™ DEVELOPS 3DO™ AUTHORING TOOLS
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- Contact:
- AMAZING MEDIA
- Steve Cherneff
- 55 San Anselmo Ave.
- San Anselmo, CA 94960
- 415-453-0662
- ALINK: amazing.mktg
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- OBJECT-ORIENTED AUTHORING TOOLS FOR 3DO™ ANNOUNCED BY AMAZING MEDIA™
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- -Tools Speed Up And Simplify Software Development-
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- SAN ANSELMO, CA, October 4, 1993 -- Amazing Media, Inc. today
- announced the completion of a set of object-oriented authoring tools
- that simplifies the creation of 3DO games and "edutainment"
- programs. Originally created for producing their own programs, the
- company will form business alliances enabling other developers and
- publishers to take advantage of these tools - tools that allow
- programs to be created without the aid of "C" programmers.
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- Amazing Media is completing work on two "edutainment" 3DO
- programs created with the new tools, to be published and
- distributed by The Software Toolworks, Inc., a leading supplier of
- CD-ROM software.
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- According to Amazing Media president and creative director, Keith
- Metzger, his company will use the tools to do the authoring work for
- developers and publishers, rather than sell or license the tools.
- "This enables us to continue building our 3DO capabilities and team,
- while at the same time helping others bring 3DO titles to market
- much more quickly and with much less financial risk than if they
- did the work themselves," he said.
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- The authoring tools are well suited for any "branching" type program
- - those which would fall into the categories of Interactive Fiction
- and Role-Playing games, as well as Informational and Educational
- software programs.
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- The tools center around an "interpreter" that responds to
- instructions contained within text files - instructions that are set up
- as "class definitions" and "object instantiations". Objects then use
- other "Server" tasks to play sounds and digitized video, load images,
- control animations, warp and translate bitmaps as well as allowing
- for multiple levels and types of interactivity.
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- Although the scripts are interpreted, the system as a whole works
- quickly because the "Server" tasks do most of the computation,
- while the interpreted code simply specifies how the various
- program elements are joined together.
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- Amazing Media's two new 3DO titles created with the tools are:
- Oceans Below™, an underwater video and photographic experience
- that places the user in the role of a scuba diver and Space Shuttle,
- an experience that transports the user to the Johnson Space
- Center, to learn about and launch Shuttle missions. Oceans Below
- will be on the market in October and Space Shuttle in November.
- Macintosh, DOS and MPC versions of these titles are currently on
- the market.
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- Amazing Media is a five year-old multimedia producer. The
- company was awarded an Invision Award, as well as Publish
- Magazine's design award for "Clinton: Portrait of Victory", published
- by Time-Warner Interactive Group and produced in affiliation with
- publisher Epicenter Communications of Sausalito. The company
- has also recently released through The Software Toolworks, Capitol
- Hill, on Mac, DOS and MPC and is currently in production on a new,
- yet to be announced, Macintosh/MPC compatible title to be released
- in March 1994.
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