Comments on: The Science of Spore

By: unclebulgaria

unclebulgaria — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:19:26 +0000

Good point! Is R’yleh modelled in any detail? :)

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:05:24 +0000

Panspermia…

LOOK OUT FOR THE OLD ONES!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:52:02 +0000

“I freakin’ love FLOW, and found it to be a beautifully accurate way of showing the progressive evolutionary cycle through the interchange of energy between organisms, so the exact same game idea being used in Spore is fantastic.”

I wouldn’t exactly say it’s an accurate represenatation of evolution. There’s no reproduction, no selection pressure, more or less linear development, pseudo-Lamarckian acquisition of characteristics and so on.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:43:22 +0000

Exploring a virtually unlimited universe of content created by other players is what I’m most looking forward to. Fly half way across a HUGE galaxy and find some new species to conquer, destroy, enslave, whatever.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:59:14 +0000

“I’m just hoping this isn’t another Black & White.”

I had exactly the same … worry. I see a lot of promises, but what gets delivered may be very different.

Also, it seems a huge amount of resources are going into uploading/downloading other peoples creatures; while that’s cool, I really don’t care, personally, what other people have done. I want to make my own crap, wreck my oen universe, and so on.

By: mrkstphnsn

mrkstphnsn — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:37:26 +0000

Yeah Evolution Yeah Blah Yeah but you’re all avoiding the big question! Does he or does he not look like that Bloke From No Country For Old men?

By: Cigol

Cigol — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:09:14 +0000

One of the developers of Spore was responsible for creating flow so I guess that might be some indication of why there are similarities.

@Aiden; I am also getting the Black and White vibe and am disappointed by what I’ve seen thus far. It seems rooted in traditional gameplay mechanics which on the face of it just don’t see either deep enough or fun enough to stand on their own.

I will obviously reserve judgement until playing it of course (and Black and White was still an immensely enjoyable game despite it’s ‘failures’) but I can’t say I don’t view Spore with some level of scepticism.

By: rb_lestr

rb_lestr — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:09:12 +0000

From Wiki:

“Spore’s development began in 2000″

“[fl0w] was released on April 14, 2006″

Spore had these ideas down a long time ago.

By: will

will — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:28:01 +0000

How much does the microscopic aspect of the game, with all the little single-celled organisms, remind you of pretty much exactly the game FLOW with tricked-up graphics? even down to the ‘larger, more advanced creatures seen out of focus on the next evolutionary plane’ thing? I’m not saying this is a bad thing, I freakin’ love FLOW, and found it to be a beautifully accurate way of showing the progressive evolutionary cycle through the interchange of energy between organisms, so the exact same game idea being used in Spore is fantastic.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:25:54 +0000

Aidan.. I think you’re horribly missing the point. Of course the biology and science seem broken, because this isn’t a sim. Cmon, the single-celled phase has creatures floating around with huge cartoony googly eyes.

People have the most bizarre expectations of this game. It’s like every time they show something concrete, everyone is up in arms about how it’s not what they were personally dreaming of.

And the ‘I don’t see a game YAH YAH NOT LISTENING NO GAME HERE’ stuff is just ridiculous. So, was Sim City not a game? Was The Sims not a game? Sure, there’s no high scores, and no bosses, no levels, no winning, but it’s still a game. And still fun.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:02:57 +0000

My worry is that there is still no game, it seems like every successful cell creature progresses through various forced stages of increasing complexity with the user being able to add the odd extra foot or spike. None of the procedures that the user has control over seem to be based on any real world science, certainly the biology seems horribly broken (I am not really qualified to comment on the space science).
I am not saying it won’t be fun, but I get the massive smell of Black and White whenever I read anything about the game!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:17:32 +0000

I can’t wait to play this, but I’m still worried that each of the sections isn’t going to be very deep in itself. Hopefully the connections between the phases will make up for it, but we won’t know till people play it through.