By Kieron Gillen on July 1st, 2010 at 11:46 am.
It’s the new game from Preloaded - who you may remember from 1066 and Trafalgar. It’s basically their game for the Science Museum in London for their current Who Am I genetics-related gallery. As such, Thingdom is a virtual-pet game about breeding fluffy things – basically Spore for kids (So, just Spore then – Cynical Ed). Plus! explicit genetic recombination of attributes! To be honest, the second I got the above screenshot guaranteed that I was going to have to post about it, but that you can freeze your genetically inferior thingies by removing their hat on the ice levels also gains kudos. Play here, if you feel like breeding too.
I’m sorry, red ball of small spikes, but I don’t think our physiologies permit such a thing without massive loss of blood.
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I want to mate. :(
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Kieron, you can only do the specialist editor brackets thing if you have an editor who isn’t you. You know the rules!
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It’s a time-honoured tradition for writers, much like the fake edit one sees in contemporary message boards.
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Have you done enough?
Epic FAIL!
MonkeyRat failed to impress Hunbun
x Retreat in shame
This game has break my heart :-(
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This is so cruel, it’s asking me to choose a child!
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I’m going to have a go because I liked 1066 and because of the bit you mentioned about hats.
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Who doesn’t want to mate, eh?
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Rosemary Woodhouse.
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I do like skipping on a dancefloor to impress a big bobbly purple thing with horns so it’ll mate with me.
AND IN THE GAME.
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hahaha… this joke never gets old.
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This is going to sound really weird but… that guy’s face in the Science Museum header image is very… low poly 3d looking. It’s a face I’ve seen in videogames before. Argh, I am getting real-life deja vu about stuff I experienced in games, this is bad.
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We are all but genetic algorithms in the sim-pet game of life.
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Kinda cute, but a little easy. Good teaching tool for the dominant and regressive gene concept, though.
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hi to everyone
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