Comments on: “Everybody Can Be Creative”

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:07:44 +0000

From what I very vaguely understand devlocke you have to do the stages once but after that you can start a new game at any stage you’ve been at already. So not that different from save games then.

I could be entirely wrong though.

By: devlocke

devlocke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:40:20 +0000

Wired’s Game|Life search engine sucks (or I do) but Google got me the following paragraph in a second or so from some (fan?)site called sporeillustrated.com. Emphasis is mine.

“It was necessary for the developers to break the game up into distinct yet consistent, dependent “phases”. The outcome of one phase affects the initial conditions of the player’s species in the next. Each phase, while housing the same creature and player, exhibits its own style of play, and has been described by the developers as ten times more complicated than its preceding phase. While players are able to spend as much time as they prefer in each, it is possible to accelerate or skip phases altogether.”

I’m taking that to mean I remember at least partially correctly, and the creature-creator is relevant to the game because you can just blow off the initial monocellular stage and jump into the creature-phase or whatever.

I’m probably totally wrong.

By: devlocke

devlocke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:16:29 +0000

I could be totally insane, and I’m a bit late responding to this, but I could swear I read on Wired some time ago that you can skip the cellular level. I want to say I read that you can jump in at any point. It was a while ago, even if I am remembering correctly, so it could have been changed for release, but I remember feeling like the fact that you could skip parts would sort of destroy the motivation to even bother with those parts. I started actively not wanting to play the game as a result.

Am I totally insane? Maybe I just dreamed it. God knows, I’ve been reading Spore crap for an eternity; maybe I briefly confused a bad dream with real information.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:13:59 +0000

and future Spore expansion packs.[49]

I realise it’s Wikipedia and the ‘49′ is a citation, but it amused me that such a high number would come next to mention of EA expansion packs.

Just saying.

By: Tomzor!

Tomzor! — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:36:06 +0000

Brian Eno!

By: jph wacheski

jph wacheski — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:47:55 +0000

“According to The Huffington Post fundraising search engine Will Wright donated 3500 USD to former Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani in 2007″
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_%28game_designer%29

wonder if that is true? why ANYONE would suport the Deatheater cause is beyond me,. war for self-enrichment is the hight of evil sickness,. . and Mr. 911 himself was a crazed warmonger Deatheater if ever there was one,. . I do hope that that search is for another Will Wright,. ? could be a common name.

Otherwise tha game looks great! But I will not support it if the above is true. PEACE.

By: Albides

Albides — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:47:56 +0000

I want to have Will Wright’s designer babies!

By: Cold

Cold — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:48:12 +0000

I want a TARDIS spaceship!

By: Candid Man

Candid Man — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:51 +0000

@Kanakotka
Well, being heavily player-driven, the evolution of life in Spore seems to be more in conformity with the Intelligent Design “theory” (term used loosely) rather than standard evolutionary theory (which emphasizes natural selection, genetic drift, Gould’s “spandrels” and the like).

Of course, the player’s input is an imperative for any game worths its salt, but I wouldn’t put it past these crackpots to see in Will Wright’s work a sort of validation of their beliefs.

Come to think of it, according to his wiki Wright has made an important donation to the Republican party. Mmmm…

By: K

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:37:15 +0000

Because we’re intelligently(and not so) designing.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:33:11 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. Where are the crazy religious nuts? I demand badly worded and thought out complaints! Who will defend our lord and saviour?

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:40:55 +0000

I’m still amazed that anti-evolution people haven’t gone batshit at this yet.