The Odyssey of the Mammoth

The Odyssey of the Mammoth carries you back to the Stone Age, 12,000 years ago, in the role of a mammoth mother leading her calf toward Wrangel Island, the last known haven of mammothkind. The journey crosses three colorful environments seen from a third-person perspective: vast steppes, lush taiga and arctic glaciers, each more hostile than the last.

Between the scenic stretches come fights of pachydermian proportions. You lead the calf through combat and answer predators with three attacks, a tusk sweep, a charge and a stomp, sending hunters and beasts flying. An involved narrator accompanies the whole trek, offering advice, facts about the era and the occasional sarcastic pun, and tells the wider story of the mammoths' extinction.

The game was built by Mighty Tusks, a team of thirty graduating students from the Universite du Quebec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue, as a student project completed over roughly half a year.