Coming in December: WolfQuest

You'll have to indulge me in a little nostalgia here. Some of my earliest Apple memories are of crowding around an Apple II playing Oregon Trail. I couldn't help but think of that when I saw that our gaming blog brothers at Joystiq have uncovered an exciting new "edutaiment" title coming in December. Called WolfQuest, this wolf "simulator" is being created by the Minnesota Zoo to allow me (er, I mean, kids) to live out the dream of being a wolf on the great plains. If the pricelessly corny preview video is to be believed, the Minnesota Zoo and Eduweb will apparently achieve something beyond EA's capacity: cross-platform network play with simultaneous release on Mac and PC.

Alas this lupine sim won't be out until December 2007, but now you really have something to look forward to this Christmas. And by the way, if you want to relive those Oregon Trail days, it's possible in a Dashboard widget.

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Josh

This game takes me back too...that is, the graphics take me back to 2001. Boo HDR lighting, hooray polygons.

August 02 2007 at 4:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Norman

This game is made with Unity. So I guess it really will be available on mac and pc.

August 02 2007 at 2:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christine D.

That is one cheese-tastic preview video. Hahaha

August 02 2007 at 12:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven Ledbetter

First time I've seen peeing in a video game since Conker.

August 01 2007 at 11:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hopkins

Sounds a lot like - http://www.abandonia.com/games/531/5

August 01 2007 at 7:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pepe

Super. Yea, Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago and upgrading from StarWriter to copy-and-paste was fab!!
Moving to The Manhole, SimCity and HyperCard was quite the experience though too!!

August 01 2007 at 6:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply