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LUCAS LEARNING® RELEASES STAR WARS®: THE GUNGAN FRONTIER™ - THE FIRST STAR WARS SIMULATION

Star Wars Creatures and Plants Offer Different Breed of Educational Adventure

San Rafael, Calif. - May 24, 1999 - Lucas Learning today announced the release of Star Wars®: The Gungan Frontier™, the first Star Wars simulation for the PC and Macintosh. As heroes of the Battle of Naboo, players are called before the Gungan High Council to handle a critical mission. Their city is threatened by overpopulation, and players must establish a new colony on a nearby moon. The Gungans need to create a new world filled with fantastic Star Wars creatures and plants from across the galaxy. Players discover how these alien animals and plants interact and how they depend on each other to live. Only when an ecologically sound environment has been built can a new Gungan city truly thrive.

Audiences in droves are being introduced to Jar Jar Binks, a Gungan in the new Star Wars®: Episode I The Phantom Menace™ and now game players can help Jar Jar create a thriving new city in which the Gungans can live. To do this, players create a stable ecosystem where the Gungans harvest plants and collect animals that they'll use for food, construction, and maintenance. While attempting to turn unpopulated land into a viable swamp and undersea city for the Gungans, players learn about the interdependence of organisms and environment, population and ecosystem dynamics, regulation and behavior of organisms, food webs, life cycles, and symbiosis. The hybrid game features over 80 fantastic Star Wars creatures and plants and includes "create a critter" mode, which allows users to design millions of animals and plants, each with their own unique attributes, and release them into the game.

"You can only imagine how excited we are to create this simulation," said Michael McCormick, team leader on the project. "Not only did we use the creatures that will be featured in Star Wars: Episode I, we worked alongside the Episode I concept artists to design new creatures and plants specifically for the game. That, coupled with the fact that we are creating an environment where players have to think about some core ecological concepts, created an ideal development situation."

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