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Mammoths are go! And extinct!

posted by Doug McDermott
Doug McDermott
Doug McDermott

Senior Writer : Boston

topics: Entertainment, Internet Culture, Creativity, Rock and Roll, and Art Direction

on April 21, 2009 at 11:02 PM
filed under: Games and Entertainment
http://tbg.cm/ebjWcn
Scientists once decried my knowledge of mammoths as “very, very poor”. In fact, my entire knowledge of mammoths could be distilled down to a few simple bullet points:
  • They can be used as vacuum cleaners
  • They can be used as showers
  • They are pretty much not around anymore
Fortunately, this all changed when I had the privilege of helping some Barbarians on a project for the wonderful people at the San Diego Zoo. The Zoo has a brand new exhibit called Elephant Odyssey that teaches visitors about Asian elephants and their prehistoric ancestors, Columbian mammoths.
To help promote this excellent and educational exhibit we built a game (also called Elephant Odyssey) where you help mammoths and elephants travel forward through time and learn about what it’s like to have tusks.
We obviously took some creative liberties with the game (elephants can’t time travel that well, bears don’t usually ask questions, and trees don’t often glow) but we did it in the name of good gameplay, education, and marketing.
Please take a few minutes to enjoy Elephant Odyssey (the game) and if you find yourself in San Diego after May 23rd, do yourself a favor and check out Elephant Odyssey (the exhibit).

12 comments

You should have seen my cat when I firist pressed the space bar in this game. Hahahaha. Precious :) Hey Doug, who wrote the music for this game?
On May 05, 2009 at 01:04 PM, doug wrote:
Cats hate spacebars. Anyway the music is actually stock. Pretty good for stock if you ask me.
Wow quite nice ^^

And you just reminded me of the Flintstones :D

I have to go and buy a DVD set now as i really miss those cartoons, one of the best ^_^

Thank you very much and it seems like quite a nice game, will be coming back to your blog :)

Cheers!
Dont forget, they are great for cleaning up peanuts! lol
I never realised that every cartoon newspaper in the flintstones has the title on the back page.

Elephant Odyssey has some rather memerising music. great job
My daughter loves Elephant Odyssey. This is really a clever and educational game for kids.
the game is not only clever and educational but the children are totally addicted to it. its a good chnage from typical fighting games that are around now days my little cuz has been playing it for months and he still has not been bored out by it. that tells me that game must be really really good
Wow, thanks for the game, I'll see if I can add it to my site, and I'll show my little sister. She'll love it!
This game is so cute! Its nice playing a game which dosent involve guns and shooting people LOL!

Thanks!
Hey Doug, who wrote the music for this game?
Excellent game. I hope to see it in my iphone for my kid.
Great game
Thanks for sharing Doug