The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, are home to one of the most stunningly preserved ecosystems from the last ice age, making them an ideal location for our game. Our team specifically selected a well-known and extensively studied fossil site for the ease of our own research and accessibility to literature. With over a hundred years of research behind the La Brea Tar Pits, we can be confident in the accuracy of our depiction.

 

The La Brea Tar Pits record a time span encompassing the latter half of the aptly named Rancholabrean Age, 50,000 to 11,000 years before the present.​ The recency of La Brea's ecosystem is relevant to us, as the overlap of extinct and living species appeals to the specialties of our team. The evidence of large and iconic prehistoric mammals at La Brea makes this a perfect setting to display the full spectrum of North America's once abundant megafaunal diversity.