Tidepool

Play with our Prototypes - Tidepool

Spore™ has been a huge undertaking. Along the way we ended up exploring countless design directions in gameplay, simulation and user interface.

One of the ways in which we explore possible design directions is by building simple, playable prototypes that we can play around with to get a sense for a particular system.

Usually these prototypes are never seen by the public, but we thought some of the more intrepid players out there might enjoy playing around with a few of our early Spore prototypes. Keep in mind these are not tested, supported or even easily explained.

Tidepool

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Tide Pool represents our first steps down the path toward synthesizing our ideas into a playable game.

Tide Pool set the stage for the later, more recognizably Spore-like prototypes SPUG and GonzagoGL.

Tide Pool combines a forest fire simulator from BIOME with the terrain and water simulation from WaterBoy and the flocking system from Crowd in a fire fighting mini game.

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