DragonSpan

In late 1996, following the release of Insomniac's first title, "Disruptor", each Insomniac developer was tasked with developing a pitch for their next title. The pitch that would ultimately be selected would be Craig Stitt's "DragonSpan", a third person action game in which you control a dragon over its entire lifespan of several thousand years. Many of the concepts for how this would work and what the premise of the game would be were still not fully pinned down in any of these early stages.

Ultimately, producer Mark Cerny would suggest keeping the dragon the same age across the game, and keeping the game family-friendly to appeal to a wider audience. This game would soon thereafter become a platforming concept with the working title "Project Pete", the titular Pete eventually becoming Spyro the Dragon.

LifeSpan Notes

Handwritten notes from Stitt describing an earlier iteration of DragonSpan called "LifeSpan", first released by Stitt on Reddit in 2024.

NOT STRICTLY TRUE - there seems to be multiple docs in here. Some of the docs were from when they were getting ready to pitch it to Sony (e.g. the Gnorc ones) - worth reshuffling - these might actually all be later than the other docs

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DragonSpan Document A

The earliest known complete design document for DragonSpan, also released by Stitt on Reddit in 2024.

DragonSpan Document B

A slightly later version of the document above, first provided by Stitt and released by Hwd405 on Twitter in 2021.