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Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

this is obviously the gdc 2005 tech demo, but it seems to be an early version of even that? all the creatures here look rather strange

compare to this screenshot. the environment seems to be the same as this though, and the rest of the graphics!

particularly, the hoppers match the models found in the feb 19 build (HerdSmall.rw4 from ArenasMisc.package, shown here) and retail (for the black cloud). so turns out this model directly was from 2005!

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theres this screenshot that seems to be from around the same point as the feb 19 build. i recognize these debug displays immediately, and the window title that says StopCurrentCinematic here

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theres also these screenshots from earlier builds. i dont even recognize the top right one here

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another page. must be a build from 2007

curiously it actually has fensters (which is the name given to evolved screebles in the comic book creator), so they still were in the game as of that point. theres also tex, and the tribe here consists of singtwees. plus theres a few more harder to identify creatures

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more early tribal screenshots. this epic here has weird missing legs

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more of that unknown build

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and more 2005 screenshots, with underwater tribes. and more evidence that aquatic was not a stage!!

(edit: here it is)

Some thoughts.

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