Comments on: Will Wright Versus The Spacemen

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:54:17 +0000

So he’s got a ship hovering over a newly terraformed Mars. What happens if he forgot about it, went out to dinner, went home for the weekend.. Come monday he goes back to the office and finds that the Martians have shot down his space ship, taken the pieces to Area 42, autopsied his crew, reverse engineered his stardrive, nuked and conquered Earth, then gone on an interstellar rampage of conquest like the new Mongol Horde…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:29:01 +0000

It’s amazing how the limit of how much I love Will Wright is constantly expanding.

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Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:56:16 +0000

[...] Spore – Video of Will Wright demonstrating his intelligently designed evolution masterwork to NASA [...]

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:52:45 +0000

Personally I am a great believer in not rushing games thats why I’m always excited about Will Wright (although my mother-in-law is always asking me about startegy in the Sims 2 and I’ve never played it), and any Steam games. Simply because you know that they are gonna get it right.

By: terry

terry — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:04:35 +0000

This is a fascinating video but on the other hand $30 million… Brian Eno… and where is the game?

By: Satsuz

Satsuz — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:38:42 +0000

Butler: Yeah, this one isn’t a stretch for gamer conversion or anything like that. One guy there was even knowledgable enough to take a little swipe at the business side of his games, with the whole “saving any ideas for Spore 2 (or possibly expansions)?” question. I was referring to Wright’s presentations/interviews in general; he’s spoken at some relatively casual venues. SXSW and TED come to mind. No miracles, but not exactly preaching to the converted, either.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:29:44 +0000

I think I’ve seen videos of every demo he’s done of this game, and every single one has something I’ve never seen about the game before that totally blows my mind.

I am ridiculously excited about this game.

By: Lh'owon

Lh'owon — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:41:48 +0000

Aww… Want. To. Play.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:28:13 +0000

Awesome video. Makes Spore look even cooler.

By: Carey

Carey — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:09:53 +0000

Solution space. Awesome. Give me more ways to /play/.

Spore has made me love The Sims. Not to play, but because it’s given Wright a blank cheque to go and do this. He’s so right about so many things from big ideas like the way games are designed today as fixed stories rather than letting us create our /own/ stories right down to procedural generation being the best thing for the industry on a mechanical level. Love him.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:40:31 +0000

Brilliant.

Satsuz, he didn’t go into detail about Earth, he just kinda skipped over it…
I wonder?

By: Jonathan Burroughs

Jonathan Burroughs — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:41:17 +0000

Love!