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The Making Of Karateka

“Our feeling is that it’s our one chance to publish as much as we can”
CHRIS KOHLER

Digital Eclipse, the Californian developer specialising in videogame preservation, has created a kick-ass interactive documentary about Jordan Mechner’s groundbreaking martial-arts action title Karateka. It covers Mechner’s life and loves, discusses pioneering techniques such as rotoscoping and features design documents, journal entries and videos along with playable prototypes and new remastered versions of Karateka and the unreleased Deathbounce too. We caught up with editorial director Chris Kohler to learn more.

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