Don’t stop. This is Morlock country.
Earth Primer isn’t a game — it bills itself as “a science book for playful people”. It’s a richly detailed geological simulator that lets you play with the processes that drive the planet. To me it feels like a throwback to those exciting days when the iPad was new and there were digital pop-up wonders like Pennant trying to make tablets into a platform for a different kind of book.
Nostalgia aside, Earth Primer looks lovely and has a remarkable pedigree: dev Chaim Gingold was the designer behind Spore’s creature creator, which anyone who played Spore will agree was the best part of that game — the last thing Maxis produced before it disappeared into EA’s maw and came out changed.
Earth Primer will be out for iPad in the next month or so. It’ll require iOS 7 or better. Watch the trailer below.
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