Maxis' Spore emerges
Will Wright's genius tells...
One of the most outrageous, ambitious and downright exciting games to emerge from the GDC was Will Wright's Spore, his latest creation at Maxis. The veteran designer behind the Sim brand looks to be taking 'sandbox' game dynamics to a new level with his latest project, which blends so many genres as to actually represent something of a gaming microcosm. The game will allow the player to create and shape 'life' - from the simplest cells of a primitive organism, to the conquering of other galaxies and worlds. Once the player has created a functioning creature, the game will take on more RTS elements, as the player begins to look beyond the creature, to the world around - and as civilization and society emerge, so technology improves - and eventually space travel and colonisation becomes possible. The scope of the game appears immense.
The game places a great deal of emphasis on player creativity, and interaction - allowing for races and worlds created by one player to interact with another. Sounds... grand. It appears then that Spore is something of a dream project for Wright, the developer admitting that the he has cultivated his vision of the title over the years waiting for the right time, team and technology to be in place. Even with today's impressive hardware, and publisher EA's funds, the ambition of Spore will certainly take some managing. However, if anyone knows how to create well-rounded games, it's Wright. We can't wait for more news on this.
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Game of the year for sure
Awesome, but one problem... THAT WAS MY IDEA!!!!1
could u test for this game
could u test for this game
can we test? ive been waiting for a game were i can actually change things that i dont like with the technology characters and crap and i dont think i can wait a year! lol
Me either, can't wait till Fall '06!!!!!
Release it now!
Wow, this game sounds EXTREME. I hope they put as much effort into it as possible. Even if it takes 2 years. wanna play this sucker when its the ripest.
I've been waiting my whole life for a game like this! Seriously!
I can wait to the realease of this game!!!!!!!
I want to play it!!!!!!!!!!
When does this come out?
Ive waited for a game like this for a LONG time...finally!
Me too I cant wait. is it going to cost like one price to buy the disc or do you have to pay a yearly price to update the game from other players? Or do you even have to downlaod the stuff?
Me too I cant wait. is it going to cost like one price to buy the disc or do you have to pay a yearly price to update the game from other players? Or do you even have to downlaod the stuff?
SPORE!!!!! :0""
Spore sounds like the best game of "06"
SPORE
my brother told me about a video that was like 35min long about this game and he said it was similar to "the Sims" games which i am a huge fan of. After watching that video i couldnt wait for this game to come out so that i could be creative in the process of creating my own life form. when does this come out...... i think im going to have a hard time waiting anyway you look at it though.
I just have 1 thing 2 say SPORE
SPORE!!! OMG!!! I just wonder, do you have to pay monthly AND buy it? or just buy it?
This makes other games look like crude
Game of the year?!
I have basically been dreaming and wishing of a game like this since I was born!
I NEED THIS CAME!
spore looks like a great game.From details i wish it could come out sooner.
"Spore," whenever it does come out (I believe that it will be pushed back at least once, because when he showed it at GDCEurope, it was apparently about half done-- which means it will be even more amazing than the video, which is hard to believe-- and it will probably take a little more time to finish), will almost assuredly win Game of the Year. Simply put, the gaming community has never seen anything like this, and it will likely change the face of gaming forever. I told my friend about my idea for a video game in which you play God, so to speak, but I obviously lack Mr. Wright's access to capital, so I will let him create it for me. "Spore" has replaced earning money as my reason to get up in the morning.
Fantastic! This is what SimLife should have been. I cannot wait. And of course everyone who found their way to this message board "thought of this before." Perhaps it is because its such a freaking good idea. Go Maxis!!
Yes, I think this game will be good. My team hopes to accomplish this much in too short a time...I think we will have to rethink our game plan...
At first glance, I give this Super Powered cOol Reason to livE (SPORE) a 9.5/10!
when does it come out and is it only for the computer? it would be fun if it were on all the systems too... i mean some people cant get a better internet connection or a better computer for that matter.. it just looks awesome tho... would be cool for the 360 maybe.. -.-
this game is going to b abso-friken-lutly awsome :-) i am so going to get this game Will is going to b a friken billionaire
SimEverything! This kind of thing is the reason I got into gaming in the first place. I watched Will Wright's presentation two days ago and now all my other games just seem so crude and unfinished. I've been dreaming about Spore for the last two nights. Finish soon! (But not before I buy a totally new system so I can run this game to perfection)
Originally slated for a Fall '06 release date, when Spore will in fact be release is debatable. There has been strong evidence recently that Spore will not be released until 2007 such as the EA 'financial' statement and GameSpot's newly listed release date. If the new Spore release date information is true, we may not see Spore on store shelves until March '07.
Man i want Spore SO bad. I've been reading like strange and unexplained phenomena books, and things about UFOs and dinosaurs still may being alive and sea monsters and stuff has made me remember Spore and I seriously might fall to the ground in convulsions if I dont play it. Seeing how big the game is gonna be, I'm probably gonna have to run over to the nearest computer store and buy a whole new gaming computer. I'll have this state of the art high tech gaming computer, and then I'll have my even more advanced SPORE computer......oh well :D
i would like to buy this as it looks so good.
i wouldnt care if the graphics werent that good i wanna play it now its the game that will last forever. i wana have it NOW NOW Now i just hope theres no monthly fee but id pay it anyway to play the game
i want 2 no wen its out
i want 2 play it
its *gr8* i read about it in a magazine :-D
Yes, it is good enough I guess, but I have been waiting for a simulation game like this that is also like a remote control of the universe. Or you could play simAnt and control an actual physical robot ant, and see what it sees, and talk to a real ant colony, and give them chemical signals, and like control the mechanism by which the queen lays eggs, and be like browsing chief ant. Or sim microbe, where you inject yourself with it, and you can then play a simulation game exploring your own body...the inner universe "remote" control. I'll be the crazy doctor master of myself then!
i heard that this game might not be out till after july 2007 is it i want to know
and also they might cut out the water stage :o
i heard it would come out fall this year thats what willwright said and i also heard dec1 and jan 1st
i only hope you are right Spore M
because i could not wait another whole year
you would think that they are doing it on purpose
Everyone here sounds 4 year olds a week before Christmas, lol.
But yea, judging by the hype around this game, I can't imagine how huge this game is going to hit, and how the central servers will handle the load on the first release year. I bet it'll need a lot of waiting to find this game on the release date unless it's preordered or something !
wooooooooooooooooooooooooo! cant wait look perfec : ) but will u have 2 pay monthly ?????
i dont think you have to pay monthly
I haven't seen where they have said anything about a monthly fee anywhere. I just want to beta test this game to see if it is going to be nearly as good as it looks. If this thing can create the creatures I have imagined then it will be one of the best games I have ever seen.
Yeah i had that same idea in 7th grade i guess Will hit the nail on this one
I want this game I dont cre if its finished or not i want it
It's better game at sims.
omg you guys you got to wait you dont want bugs in it do you so if you want it now well do you want it to shut dowen wen you play it so soz you got to wait
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