Does anybody know...

[gopher]

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?

[Harry Seldon]

It must not have gotten far because the only links to info are at apolyton and there's not much here.

[Asmodean]

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

[Harry Seldon]

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.

[Asmodean]

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

[Skanky Burns]

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.

[Harry Seldon]

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.

[Jac de Molay]

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?

[Asmodean]

The few things they said about this, all hinted at a real time game. But in what form, we'll never know

Asmodean