Maliiki was a male Jawa spy. While he was attempting to rebuild an escaped droid in Mos Eisley, another assassin droid cut the ropes holding a catwalk where he stood. As he fell, a crate tumbled over him, trapping the Jawa.
Beside the point I know but this is from Star Wars: Droid Works and I'd love to hear a retrospective some day about what was going on with Lucas Learning, they also made that strange SimLife style Naboo ecosystem simulator.
Weirdly enough Mizuko Ito's ENGINEERING PLAY ends up gesturing at some of this--the first few chapters are on the growth of children's educational software in the 80s up through the 90s. One of the people she interviews (blanking on the name atm) was a developer at Lucas Learning who came directly over from another edutainment outfit, and the sense seems to be that at a certain point in the 90s computer games aimed at kids simply HAD to be framed as "learning" or "educational" in nature. Droid Works and the Naboo ecosystem game are both brought up because their box blurbs claim they encourage "critical thinking" as their learning skill, even though it's not clear exactly what that means.
Oh, this totally makes sense.
One thing I remember being interesting though was that The Gungan Frontier credits a bunch of 'Subject Matter Experts' who seem to be actual ecologists and environmental scientists which maybe points to a certain earnestness. This is how I learned that George Lucas himself also founded a nonprofit educational foundation?
