Spore-A new kind of game

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm not much into games anymore but this looked interesting:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html

Putting two and two together, Wright concluded that there had to be some way where users could create content, instead of armies of developers, and a way to make a game craft itself around the user's contribution.

[The_Doctor]

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html

That is an epic sounding game.

[Crazed Rabbit]

That is AMAZING. I'll admit I thought the first part was cool, and the second part, and the third, and the..., well you get the point.

I want that game. Will Wright is a genius.

Crazed Rabbit

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

In-freaking-credible.

"but there was more"

I wonder if this kind of game's time has come.

*Shudders in awe, anticipation, and lack of patience all at once*

[discovery1]

Wow, just wow. Hope it works as advertised.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Pictures(blurry): http://www.thesimszone.co.uk/news/archive.php?ID=2072

[Sethik]

I think you guys are missing the main point of Wright's presentation. He wasn't doing to show off a cool game, he was showing what can be accomplished without teams of hundreds of artist, programmers, scripters, and writers. The way games are moving today in the future it could take more money to make a decent game than it would to make a decent movie. This shuts out independant developers and ingenuity as Publishers will be less likely to risk supporting titles that break the mold.


Although the game does look amazing.

[Zalmoxis]

Imagine a world six to twelve years fgrom now when just about everyone will be able to create his own game. Instead of having few good games from a limited number of sources, you would have millions of mediocre games from millions of sources.

By the way, does anyone know when that game will be out, or have more information on it?

[AntiochusIII]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

Though I wonder is he going to release this "Spore" game or is it just a justification of his ideas?

I'm going to develop a race of Carthaginian human sacrificing conquerors (he forgets religion in his game; A key component in populous (well, kind of...it's magic after all.) and name my planet: Kar Hadahst (or something like that )

[discovery1]

Imagine a world six to twelve years fgrom now when just about everyone will be able to create his own game. Instead of having few good games from a limited number of sources, you would have millions of mediocre games from millions of sources.

By the way, does anyone know when that game will be out, or have more information on it?

You'd still get good games. Just like there are a few excellent mods, while most are good/average.

name my planet: Kar Hadahst

Question: How does this relate to Carthage?

[AntiochusIII]

The Phoenician name for "Carthage" (Latin: Carthago)

It was something like that, but I'm sure I made a spelling mistake...possibly a lot.

It means "New Town" possibly because another, older important port-city in the area, "Utica" to Rome, was called "Old Town" in Phoenician.

[SwordsMaster]

It was called "new city" because for the Phoenicians, Tire was the mother city, and with Carthage as the "capital" of the west, they called it new city well I suppose it seems reasonable.

Just as the carthaginians later called Carthago Nova (new new city).

[discovery1]

Oh. I see. Thanks.

[Byzantine Prince]

This is very similar to the way Morrowind was editable. You could technically reposition anyone move anyone where rename buildings, change buildings, change your character, add new weapons, add new character's you've made, edit the adventure itself, edit what every character says to you. Yep, Morrowind had all that, the real question are you willing waste your entire life on something like this?

[Mikeus Caesar]

the real question are you willing waste your entire life on something like this?

Yes!!!! I've been waiting years for something like this!! A game which you can mould to your own sick desires....ehehe!! I shall make a race of flesh-eating, hyper-intelligent arachnids!!!

[Leet Eriksson]

I heard about this game a while ago... the sandbox style game makes it sound interesting.

[Mikeus Caesar]

It's an incredibly interesting game. And the scope....it's huge. Take over your little tidal pool as some creepy little microbe. Take over the surrounding area as an odd creature that has recently climbed out of the primordial sea's. Conquer the planet, defeating other odd creatures with amazing technologies. Take over the solar system, terraforming planets. Take over the universe, making peace with or destroying alien civilizations.

Amazing. And the most interesting thing is the way it makes everything up as it goes. Rather than having pre-defined animations, it makes them up. You could make a creature with 20 legs, and it would work out how to make it walk.

The game's creator has given us the clay. It's up to us to make things with it.