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    How far this game got developed? Did it die as just an idea, or was there some coding going on? What was the basic premese supposed to be, gameplay wise?
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  • #2
    It must not have gotten far because the only links to info are at apolyton and there's not much here.

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    • #3
      A lot of the artwork was finished. A working prototype was definately completed. But they hadn't gotten around to deciding what the object of the game would be. But I seem to remember Sid saying that they were playing dinosaurs at the Firaxis headquarters. I.E. some sort of game had been coded.

      Asmodean
      Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark

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      • #4
        That's odd they would get a working game together then just abandon it. Maybe they'll give it away as a freebie on the Pirates! II disk.

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        • #5
          Yeah...but I think it was more a matter of them moving dinosaurs around the game map. I don't think that aby objectives had been set, or that they even knew what they wanted to do with this game.

          Asmodean
          Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark

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          • #6
            Probably just a prototype of the game. I remember reading that Sid would code these prototypes to test his ideas out. Obviously this one didn't pan out.
            I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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            • #7
              It would have been cool to send an army of stegosaurs wielding spears into a city to take it over. Sigh... Maybe he'll revisit it.

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              • #8
                That's odd they would get a working game together then just abandon it.
                Strange are the ways of Sid - He's been known to put projects aside, sometimes for years, then come back to them.

                BTW, was this supposed to be turn-based or real-time?
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                • #9
                  The few things they said about this, all hinted at a real time game. But in what form, we'll never know

                  Asmodean
                  Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark

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