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Dog's Life

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This page details pre-release information and/or media for Dog's Life.

Windows Debug Screenshots#

Screenshots showing a Windows build of the game, exhibiting graphical glitches. 1

March, 2001#

GDC 2001#

Dog's Life was shown off at GDC 2001 during David Braben's presentation, "Technology Five Years From Now". The game is known as Dog's Tale at this point.2

September, 2001#

ECTS 2001#

The same presentation is also shown at ECTS 2001 by Braben, with a demo of the game being displayed during this presentation. 3 An early photo of the game

October, 2001#

Frontier Dogs Demonstrator#

On October 25, 2001, Frontier Developments released a small animation demonstrator program to showcase their IK technology known as "R-TAG".4 5 This demonstrator happens to use an early dog model for Jake and the Dalmatian that also appears in some early builds. Screenshot of demonstrator

April, 2003#

SCEE Monthly Artwork Disc#

The April 2003 SCEE Monthly Artwork Disc (MAD) contains press images for Dog's Life, showing many locations from the game. 6

Alphine#

City#

Countryside#

Dogs#

Smellovision#

May, 2003#

E3 2003#

PSWorld Volume 33 Preview#

E3 Preview

The PSWorld Volume 33 disc contains an E3 video preview of a later build of Dog's Life. Watch on YouTube

SCEE Software Brochure + Press Information - E3 2003#

Dog's Life Video

7

September, 2003#

Official AUS PlayStation 2 Magazine#

Issue 018 (2003-09)8#

October, 2003#

Zo Zit Dat Magazine#

The October 2003 edition of the Dutch magazine Zo Zit Dat contains a section about development on Dog's Life. 9

'...But what does it mean?'
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SCEE Monthly Artwork Disc#

The SCEE MAD for October 2003 also contains images for Dog's Life, and even some concept art images. 10

Artwork#

Dwayne
Environment
Groups
Jake
Misc
Wayne

Screenshots#

2004#

Pulse - Behind the Scenes of Dog's Life#

Watch on YouTube11 12

References#


  1. Andrew Gillett on X (Twitter)↩︎
  2. Frontier Developments GDC 2001↩︎
  3. Eurogamer ECTS 2001↩︎
  4. Frontier Developments R-TAG Demonstrator Press Release↩︎
  5. Demonstrator Download page↩︎
  6. SCEE Monthly Artwork Disc April 2003↩︎
  7. SCEE Software Brochure + Press Information - E3 2003↩︎
  8. Official AUS PlayStation 2 Magazine Issue 018 (2003-09)↩︎
  9. Andrew Gillett on Bluesky↩︎
  10. SCEE Monthly Artwork Disc October 2003↩︎
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM90b0K1-YM Pulse - Behind the Scenes of Dog's Life (2004)↩︎
  12. https://archive.org/details/G4_Reel_for_GDC_Hallway-Eating_Area_G4_Media G4 Reel for GDC (Hallway Eating Area)(G4 Media)↩︎