Spodland

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Spodland was a computer game for the Amiga computer, designed by the British group The Hidden.

The history of Spodland originally started when the British home computer magazine Amiga Power held a competition in co-operation with The Hidden, where the readers were asked to design new computer games, and the winner would have his/her game actually implemented by The Hidden. The winner was Martin Fox from Aberdeenshire whose design Spodland was chosen as the winning entry. Other entries included a puzzle game called That Sinking Feeling and a beat-em-up called, strangely, Transformer-like Robots Kick David Icke's Butt.

Spodland was a multi-player arcade/puzzle game, where the players took control of Spods, small Smurf-like creatures that sat on top of mushrooms and spat on each other. The players would do their best to spit on other Spods and avoid being spat on themselves, until finally only one Spod remained.

The design and implementation of the game was being followed in Amiga Power in a special Diary of a game feature, where The Hidden reported the game's progress. The progress was going rather well, even including a fully rendered Claymation graphical presentation and some basic gameplay, until it was abruptly stopped and abandoned without explanation, never reaching finished stage.

Spodland is not available for sale or download anywhere. The only working implementation of it exists internally with The Hidden, if even they have it any more. The Hidden are better known for their earlier game Donk!, a platform game starring a samurai duck.