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There still planning on making Spyro's kingdom? Or was that just another name for Skylanders...

It was the name for Skylanders...

To be honest, I keep wondering the same thing. But everyone's going to answer you that it's another name for Skylanders..

Skylanders IS Spyro's Kingdom. SK was a test title.

Spyro's Kingdom is the working title for Skylanders.

I love these kinds of questions. I can never help but get a good laugh outta them.

I didn't even pay much attention to the whole "Spyro's Kingdom" thing; but even I knew Skylanders was the alternate name. XD

Yeah, they make me crack a smile everytime they say stuff like this.

Still, it's possible SK was going to be completely different from SSA and it was just killed, with old evidence left lying to rot.

That's not really how making games works. SK was the working title for Skylanders, just like The Darkest Hour was the working title for DotD.

It's still possible... What I meatn is that SK was a different game which was in development then killed off after a very short amount of time.

Again, that's not how game making works. If that had been the case, we literally would never have heard about it. The fact that Activision was hiding information about "Spyro's Kingdom" immediately before the launch of Skylanders confirms that SK was the game's working title. What info we have about Skylanders also suggests the same. SK might have been a different game early on (like Ratchet and Clank, whose working title was "Girl With a Stick") but it would have been so early on that we, the fans, will never know what it was like.

Spyro's Kingdom was probably the worst name for Skylanders, considering it would lead people to believe you're playing in Spyro's world, in a Spyro game, when really, it's nothing of the sort. :/ I don't get why that'd even be a title test.

Much of the info we have on Skylanders suggests that it was at one time meant to be Spyro's world. Then, too, working titles can be strange and aren't always related well (if at all) to the finished product.

Girl With a Stick = Ratchet and Clank
The Darkest Hour = Dawn of the Dragon
How the Solar System Was Won = 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Boy's Life = E.T. the Extra Terrestiral
Blue Harvest = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rory's First Kiss = The Dark Knight
Project 880 = Avatar
Corporate Headquarters = Star Trek

And so on. The fact that "Spyro" was even in the working title at all is in itself impressive.

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Much of the info we have on Skylanders suggests that it was at one time meant to be Spyro's world. Then, too, working titles can be strange and aren't always related well (if at all) to the finished product.

Girl With a Stick = Ratchet and Clank
The Darkest Hour = Dawn of the Dragon
How the Solar System Was Won = 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Boy's Life = E.T. the Extra Terrestiral
Blue Harvest = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rory's First Kiss = The Dark Knight
Project 880 = Avatar
Corporate Headquarters = Star Trek

And so on. The fact that "Spyro" was even in the working title at all is in itself impressive.

...Wow.

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Much of the info we have on Skylanders suggests that it was at one time meant to be Spyro's world. Then, too, working titles can be strange and aren't always related well (if at all) to the finished product.

Girl With a Stick = Ratchet and Clank
The Darkest Hour = Dawn of the Dragon
How the Solar System Was Won = 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Boy's Life = E.T. the Extra Terrestiral
Blue Harvest = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rory's First Kiss = The Dark Knight
Project 880 = Avatar
Corporate Headquarters = Star Trek

And so on. The fact that "Spyro" was even in the working title at all is in itself impressive.

...Wow.

Actually, 'Girl With a Stick' was a completely different game... Sony didn't reject it, they just didn't think it would sell well...

Doubly actually, Sony had nothing to do with "Girl With a Stick" not going far. The guys at Insomniac didn't like what they had with the game, so they took some of the elements from it and moved them over to Ratchet and Clank instead.

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Much of the info we have on Skylanders suggests that it was at one time meant to be Spyro's world. Then, too, working titles can be strange and aren't always related well (if at all) to the finished product.

Girl With a Stick = Ratchet and Clank
The Darkest Hour = Dawn of the Dragon
How the Solar System Was Won = 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Boy's Life = E.T. the Extra Terrestiral
Blue Harvest = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rory's First Kiss = The Dark Knight
Project 880 = Avatar
Corporate Headquarters = Star Trek

And so on. The fact that "Spyro" was even in the working title at all is in itself impressive.

Ha, I didn't know all of those! some of em' are so far off what they actually named it. and I'm pretty sure spyros kingdom was a working title for SSA. seeing as the domain where we got the name SK from even switched to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure.

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Doubly actually, Sony had nothing to do with "Girl With a Stick" not going far. The guys at Insomniac didn't like what they had with the game, so they took some of the elements from it and moved them over to Ratchet and Clank instead.

I could have swan they showed it to Sony, and Sony didn't reject it but just didn't think it was the best Insomniac could do...

Blacknight: My husband has worked in films and been an extra on a movie. I can't remember what the final title of the film was, but the working title they had for it didn't match at all. Same thing went with a sci-fi flick that was being filmed at a museum I worked at at that time and another movie I was an extra in.

bionicle: Nope. I've spoken personally with one of the guys who worked on that project and read several articles written by Insomniac, Gamasutra, and Kotaku in which it is consistently said that the team didn't like where the game was going and were the ones who scrapped it.

I thought that cancelled Agent 9 game was the basis for R&C.

Nope. That was a game being developed by an entirely different team and Insomniac had nothing to do with it.

Oh, alright then!
Silly me!

They were making an Agent 9 game at one point? o.o

Here:

What!? I think I've heard of it, but I thought it was just an idea. I didn't know it got that far..
Why was it cancelled, anyway?

Beats me. I think it was just a concept. Chances are that wasn't gameplay, but rather an early animated sequence showing what the idea of it was.

I didn't think the graphics would be that good. When was it created/cancelled? Do you know?

There's a site dedicated to old games that were never made that has a bunch of info on Agent 9. Alas, I don't remember what it is. D:

Heh, that looked like it could've worked.

I wish you knew that site. I could spend hours upon hours reading. I love knowing about that stuff.

I wish so too. I would go looking for info on those two cancelled Conker games right away.

http://www.unseen64.net/ ?

They don't have all of them, though. But they do have a huge amount!

Yeah, that's the site! Thanks Spyroo!

Yay now I have something to do.

I never knew there was an Agent 9 game in development until they canned it. O.O

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Blacknight: My husband has worked in films and been an extra on a movie. I can't remember what the final title of the film was, but the working title they had for it didn't match at all. Same thing went with a sci-fi flick that was being filmed at a museum I worked at at that time and another movie I was an extra in.

bionicle: Nope. I've spoken personally with one of the guys who worked on that project and read several articles written by Insomniac, Gamasutra, and Kotaku in which it is consistently said that the team didn't like where the game was going and were the ones who scrapped it.

Ah, I see! You were an extra in a movie? thats cool. bet it's awesome to know you were in a movie!

Yeah, it is. :/

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Spyro's Kingdom was the TEST TITLE or Skylanders?!?!
WHAT?!?! REALLY?!?!

That's why you should stay active.

Yep, Spyro's Kingdom was the working/test title.

Blacknight: being a movie extra isn't as fun as it sounds and I don't even know what the movie is or if it made it past filming. James Wood was in it, though, and I have yet to hear swearing half as inventive as his lines for the scene we were in.

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Yep, Spyro's Kingdom was the working/test title.

Blacknight: being a movie extra isn't as fun as it sounds and I don't even know what the movie is or if it made it past filming. James Wood was in it, though, and I have yet to hear swearing half as inventive as his lines for the scene we were in.

Lol thats funny. I guess having a bigger role would be a bit funner. though, at least you can tell people you were in a movie, even if you don't remember what it was called!xD

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Much of the info we have on Skylanders suggests that it was at one time meant to be Spyro's world. Then, too, working titles can be strange and aren't always related well (if at all) to the finished product.

Girl With a Stick = Ratchet and Clank
The Darkest Hour = Dawn of the Dragon
How the Solar System Was Won = 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Boy's Life = E.T. the Extra Terrestiral
Blue Harvest = Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Rory's First Kiss = The Dark Knight
Project 880 = Avatar
Corporate Headquarters = Star Trek

And so on. The fact that "Spyro" was even in the working title at all is in itself impressive.

I'm not insisting it happened, I was only theorizing... And none of the developers have said it wasn't a different game... After all, I am an optimist and I like to look at different sides of things(unless they completely just plainly and blatantly suck or they involve something I hate/vice-versa)... And I don't think that SK was a different game, like I said, I'm just happy being optimistic about things and I'm proud as an optimist.
And I think I'm fine without examples. All I'm really definite of is that I don't like to look at posts with a ton of examples. I don't need a long list- I only need a few- or in cases like this none at all. >>

Hmm... I did forget an important detail, though. The game said it was in development from June 2009-Present when it was leaked. I wonder when exactly Present was.

Present means currently, the game is still in development.

I know what Present means... Shameful! Aura...

I meant I wonder when the list was last updated after it was leaked, thus when exactly Present was.

Well be more specific next time..

Yeah, well, I would have presumed people would get exactly what I meant. Life would be so much simpler if everybody could see the little things like this.

But back on-topic.

"Present" in this case just means that the game is still in development as or of right now.

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And I think I'm fine without examples. All I'm really definite of is that I don't like to look at posts with a ton of examples. I don't need a long list- I only need a few- or in cases like this none at all. >>

Good thing I wasn't writing that post just for you, then. That post was for anyone reading this topic and I included so many examples primarily because I kept finding some truly bizarre ones.

In your case of present, I think the last was last updated when the game was first announced.