Platform: DS & Wii

The Mushroom Men video games are being developed for Nintendo on the Nintendo DS and Wii systems. Both games are being developed by Red Fly Studio and are being published by Gamecock Media Group. The story revolves around a civil war between three-inch high Mushroom Men in a human world. According to the game's designer Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi for the Nintendo DS will be a side-scrolling platformer as well as a prequel to Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, the Wii version, which will be a full 3D platforming game.


Story
The story begins when a comet passes close to the Earth, raining down a strange green dust in its wake. The space dust is harmless to humans and goes unnoticed, but they failed to notice that flora and fauna including mushrooms, cacti, and kudzu gained sentience. In order to survive, the newly conscious mushroom people soon formed into tribes, and war inevitably followed. The story of The Spore Wars on Wii also chronicles the life of the main character Pax, a lone bolete mushroom who is trying to find his place in mushroom society.

Tribes
In the August 2007 issue of Gamepro magazine, four different tribes of mushrooms were revealed. The names and characteristics of all the tribes correspond to the species of real-world mushrooms for which they are named.

Bolete - The Bolete are the innocent aboriginal tribe of the mushroom universe, a shamanistic society with heavy emphasis on creative production and the well-being of their general populace. They are good melee fighters and they would prefer to live at peace with the land and their fellow mushroom men. They are the protagonists of both games.
Amanitas - Of all the poisonous mushrooms, Amanitas are the most lethal. The Amanitas are extremely pale and very thin. They ride spiders and use small spiders as attack beasts.
Morel - The mysterious Morel brotherhood delves into science and advancing their spore powers more than any other mushroom species. Their weapons, built primarily for defense, are technically advanced, though they are not war-like at all.
Lepiota - The evil Lepiota use poisonous spore powers as well as dark magic to enforce their aggressive religious beliefs. They build shrines in antique human hardware like old jukeboxes and automobiles.

Weapons
The game will feature weapon construction, as the player finds everyday items that can be converted into weaponry. For example an axe made of a corncob attached to a popsicle stick or even a Nintendo DS stylus.

Music
The theme song for the games and several original tracks are being done by Les Claypool of Primus fame. He is contributing some original tracks to the game's soundtrack, which is a groundbreaking metronome-based system developed by Gl33k, a music and sound design group located in Austin, TX.