Editors in games everywhere have become increasingly popular. The mods are almost as popular as the official stuff themselves. Now Will Wright has gone the next step and turned the editor into a game of itself:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html?fromint=1

Holy stromboli. (http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/03/pictures_of_wil.php)

That game looks and sounds like it could be damn cool.

I can't wait. :D

Imagine, a galaxy of pentagons: pentagonal planets, pentagonal cities, pentagonal vehicles, pentagonal creatures, pentagonal buildings...

This is gonna be awesome!

The ability to build an all powerful galactic civilization literally from scratch with a little single celled organism? This game could very well be the greatest game in the history of the universe yet. Of course until the next mind blowingly amazing game comes around, although my puny and insignificant mind could not possibly begin to comprehend what could be better about the idea behind Spore. :D

Kind of reminds me of SimEarth, Civilization and E.V.O. (SNES game) combined.

Now all we need is a MMORPG genre along with that, and it's well on its' way to being a "Sim Universe"... (getting close to what I thought of a year ago, how game genres are starting to merge a bit).

One thing though - the graphics do look a little goofy (clay-mation type graphics) and the background is fuzzy. Granted, that could be the way they made it in the editor for the demo (don't know how precise it can be - it looks simplistic though), and it's probably the fact that there's no texture yet.

You can't believe how happy this idea makes me. For years in this industry we have been seeing constant rehashes of RTS, RPG, and FPS gaming models unchanged but for more stuff and better graphics. On top of that, it costs so much money and manpower to make a good game and therefore a profit that fear of a flop is preventing innovation. To get an innovative new game published, your name would have to be Wright, Meier or Miyamoto. It's great that one of them has finally put his foot down.

In the best case, this game will lead to a revolution of smaller design teams and costs and therefore more innovation, as well as being the best ever. It's high time we start to think of games as ideas that can be built, shared, and improved instead of products that just get finished.

Anyway, I hope there's some form of multiplayer for this thing.

Wonderful, I already have an idea for a creature.
A brown, leaned biped with one arm sticking out of his stomach.

Wonderful, I already have an idea for a creature.
A brown, leaned biped with one arm sticking out of his stomach.

I wonder if the base objects (limbs, etc.) can be reshaped, or add something onto them (like adding a bump under each toe that secretes poison). It would be nice to have cities in swamps, forest, or water, not just "clear the land and plop down a building".

*note to self: get this game!

I won't be allowed this game... and if I did, it probably won't run on my PC...

Amazing is the only thing I can say about that. That's most definatly a buyer

I won't be allowed this game... and if I did, it probably won't run on my PC...

Hey CH as you're thinking of getting a new computer (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=287547), Spore in mind?

Hey CH as you're thinking of getting a new computer (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=287547), Spore in mind?

you bumped a 3 year old thread :lol:

He's probably got his computer by now... :p

You crazy necromancer Abaddon!

:blush:

Just so all the Spore threads in this folder were current. Also, to ensure it got moved here! ;)


(I have set forum to only show posted within last week)

Kind of reminds me of SimEarth, Civilization and E.V.O. (SNES game) combined.

Now all we need is a MMORPG genre along with that, and it's well on its' way to being a "Sim Universe"... (getting close to what I thought of a year ago, how game genres are starting to merge a bit).

One thing though - the graphics do look a little goofy (clay-mation type graphics) and the background is fuzzy. Granted, that could be the way they made it in the editor for the demo (don't know how precise it can be - it looks simplistic though), and it's probably the fact that there's no texture yet.
Very Sim earth from what I have seen, planets look overstated (volcanoes, valleys) Still I have waited many years for this, Hope it is engrossing without being too repetitive.
I had hoped my machine would cope with it, since even my laptop does sims2/ Civ 4 /GTASA all very well with just a GME card inbuilt, but on getting it,even in my Gforce 440 8xagp
it was no go on both...I should have researched more on running specs,
anyway it has afforded me an upgrade (new machine) So prob about time.

I do agree the graphics look goofy (that is why I couldn't see why it needs a much better PC?)but guess this appeals to all ages and fits the SCI FI Spore
aspect.
Love the Game box on back "your own personal Universe in a box!":)