CID The Dummy
An introduction to dedicated product tester CID.
Northamptonshire, UK Tues 6th January 2009
The hero of the piece, CID is thrust from the dull drudgery of his every day life into an exciting mission to rescue Mia. CID is a Crash Impact Dummy, one of millions created by the Professor B.M. Werken’s company to ensure that every product available on the market is safe for humankind. He diligently crashes, smashes, checks, re-checks and re-re-checks everything from lemonade to escalators. Like most of us at one point or another, CID thinks that there must more to life than just work. He’s happy enough to put up with it, but he can’t help thinking that there’s something... else.
CID is a young, funky Crash Impact Dummy. He’s knows he’s cool, he knows he’s street, he knows he’s widdit. He’s not really sure where he’s heading in life. He kinda knows he’s destined for bigger things, but he’s stuck in this damn job…. He’s got a quick sense of humour, and uses his wit as a defence.
About CID The Dummy
A star is born and he's made to last. CID THE DUMMY makes his debut in Oxygen Games’ first multi-platform production. It's an all-new action platformer that is sure to grab you with its enjoyable, fun gameplay, featuring a totally original character with charisma and moves, different fighting styles with which to battle enemies from unarmed combat to weapons like the Bazooka that can freeze, hit and burn.
• Interact as only a crash impact dummy can. Climb walls, swing on ropes, burn obstacles, destroy exploding barrels, use lifters, bounce on springs and with a neat head butt destroy walls all in stunningly realized environments. Game environment interaction is the most important part of the gameplay.
• CID's world is swarming with a host of fearfully fun enemies like the Dumper, Cursed Dummy and the bizarre Failed Experiment.
• Apart from fighting enemies, the player will enjoy solving puzzles, avoiding traps and using acrobatic skills to get out of dangerous situations!
CID The Dummy will be released on Wii™, Playstation®2, PSP®System, and PC.
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About Oxygen Games™
Oxygen Games™ boasts a broad range of fun & sociable titles to capture the imagination of the casual-console games audience. With the focus on all major console platforms, Oxygen’s games are based on mainstream lifestyles and interests, whilst delivering contemporary content featuring sports, music & well known personalities. For more information please visit www.oxygengames.net
About Twelve Interactive
Twelve is a leading Italian game development company founded in 2003 by Giuseppe Crugliano. Based in sunny Crotone, in just a few years the company has become one of the most important console game developers in Italy, thanks to CID The Dummy (previously Crash Dummy), an action platformer for Wii, PSP, PS2, PC out in 2009, published by Oxygen. The company is a Wii, Nintendo DS, PS2, PSP and PS3 developer, and the staff is made up of 20 fulltime employees, plus external contractors. The Company is currently working on Martial Arts Capoeira, a stunning fight game for Wii, PS2, PSP, PC featuring lots of sports elements, tournaments and multiplayer street fights. Martial Arts Capoeira will be published worldwide bin 2009. The Company has worked on a licensed bowling game for Nintendo DS, Elf Bowling Collector’s Edition for Detn8 Games. Twelve is also working on a new title for PS3 and Xbox 360. Previous to this, Twelve worked with some very important clients in various entertainment fields, from mobile games to online games such EA Italy, Vodafone, 3 (H3G), Renault, Wrigley/Candystand.com, just to mention a few. Twelve uses high profile technology for game development, from VICIOUS ENGINE ( www.viciousengine.com), LiveMove and Xproton, a brand new middleware from Raylight that pushes Nintendo DS limits to the edge, rendering more than double the polygons of what the Nintendo DS can officially do. For more information please visit www.twelvegames.com/TWELVE.htm
© 2008/2009 The character of CID THE DUMMY is a licensed property of Twelve Srl/Giuseppe Crugliano
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