Editing Pikmin.com SpaceForce

'''''Pikmin.com SpaceForce''''' is a lost browser game made by Nintendo of America to promote [[Pikmin (game)|the first ''Pikmin'' game]]. Not much is known about its gameplay, and while archives of the website it was on exist, it's not clear if the game itself is contained within these archives. The game was made with Adobe Flash (known as Macromedia Flash at the time), and was accessed from www.pikmin.com. It was released around November 2001, and taken offline in mid-2002.

[[File:PikminSpaceforceRegistration.png|thumb|right|250px|The homepage.]]

The homepage at www.pikmin.com featured some promotional art for ''Pikmin'', and various links related to the game. These included links to a few Nintendo websites, a button to enter the main page of the game itself, and links to download the browser plugins required to play the game (Macromedia Flash Player and Apple's QuickTime).  

The main page featured a similar background to the homepage, with some additional game-related graphics. There was a ''Pikmin''-style day counter and sun meter, which seem have showed the number of days until the game released. On the right side there are a few buttons, one of which says that the game would be coming soon. It's presumed this would turn into a play button, but there is no archive showing the button looking like this. Below that are buttons to access the leaderboards and tips & info. To the left of that bubble is another one which has a log-in area with the title "My Team Headquarters"; it is unknown exactly what this refers to. In the bottom right corner, there are buttons to get email updates, view parental info, and read an FAQ.

[[File:PikminSpaceforceOverview.png|thumb|right|250px|The overview page.]]

Clicking the "game overview" link on the main page led to a page with different background artwork, where an overview of {{p1}} was written. The buttons on the right side still remained, but there were 4 additional buttons to view videos explaining [[Red Pikmin]], [[Yellow Pikmin]], [[Blue Pikmin]], and [[Olimar]]. These videos do not seem to have been archived.

The website featured several Flash animations. When opening the website a short animation would play, that had the camera pan onto the screen from the right, Blue Pikmin falling from the top left, landing on the GameCube logo, causing the Pikmin to bounce off and the logo to shake. A Yellow Pikmin would then slide in from the right, while the Blue Pikmin that fell began running back and forth in the background.  

The exact nature of the gameplay of ''Pikmin.com SpaceForce'' is unknown. However, from what remains in the archives and the few forum posts talking about it, it seems that game seems would have had players play as a Pikmin and helping "a Space Explorer" escape a planet. To start, players would do a personality test asking some questions that would determine the Pikmin type they would play as. Players would be organized into teams based on the assigned Pikmin type, and would try to find food in the form of [[pellet]]s that would increase the player's score. This food was often found on other websites, which featured hidden buttons you could click to collect food for the game. This indicates that ''Pikmin.com SpaceForce'' was part of a larger cross-promotional marketing strategy by Nintendo of America. Each pellet collected would give between 1 and 10 points, with pellets of the same color as the player's team giving more points.

PikminSpaceforceLeave.png|Image from the game files, which shows up if you try to exit mid-game.

PikminSpaceforceRPellet.gif|The point value for a red pellet.

PikminSpaceforceYPellet.gif|The point value for a yellow pellet.

PikminSpaceforcePromo.png|Advertisement for the game in a [[Nintendo Power]] ''Pikmin'' promotional booklet.