Spore

iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
edited March 2005 in Off-Topic
OMG WILL WRIGHT(of simcity, sims fame)

<img src='http://www.donhopkins.com/home/Evolve.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Will Wright's newest game, revealed today at the Game Developer's conference. Entitled Spore, the game promises to be (in a word) unique. From the article: "Wright's latest creation spans the rise of a space-faring civilization from its humble beginnings in the primordial soup.


<a href='http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3138792&did=1' target='_blank'>Article</a>
<a href='http://www.donhopkins.com/home/WillWrightSporeDemo.html' target='_blank'>Notes from his talk at the Game Dev conference</a>
<a href='http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1775487,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1775487,00.asp</a>
<a href='http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5114' target='_blank'>http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5114</a>

Discuss, Rave, Conquer!
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited March 2005
    Now that sounds cool, so this is what SimUltimate? :-p

    Still it sounds like a great idea.
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  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    So... kinda like Sim Earth but.. it will suck less?
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    edited March 2005
    I liked this game a lot the first time I played it.

    When it was called SimEarth.

    If it was fun then, an update on it would be awesome.


    [edit] DAMN!!! not quick enough!
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  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    It sounds like the simcity from the beggining of time...

    ...

    ...


    Cool <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
    edited March 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Invasion phase: Once the world is your oyster, you can move on to other worlds in your solar system to colonize or terraform. And beyond that you'll find other solar systems, scattered throughout a beautifully-rendered galaxy in which planets lurk among dust clouds and black holes spew ejecta. Here you set forth to make contact with other planets.

    The Invasion section of the game is enormous, potentially endless. After hunting for other populated worlds, players can venture into the universe in the manner they think best fits their personality: Whether using the diplomacy of Star Trek or the destructive fury of War of the Worlds. Some races will welcome players, while others will greet instellar visitors with hostility.
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    Except theres a galaxy stage <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    edited March 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-Hellfire3k+Mar 12 2005, 06:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hellfire3k @ Mar 12 2005, 06:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Invasion phase: Once the world is your oyster, you can move on to other worlds in your solar system to colonize or terraform. And beyond that you'll find other solar systems, scattered throughout a beautifully-rendered galaxy in which planets lurk among dust clouds and black holes spew ejecta. Here you set forth to make contact with other planets.

    The Invasion section of the game is enormous, potentially endless. After hunting for other populated worlds, players can venture into the universe in the manner they think best fits their personality: Whether using the diplomacy of Star Trek or the destructive fury of War of the Worlds. Some races will welcome players, while others will greet instellar visitors with hostility.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Except theres a galaxy stage <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Somebody never reached Exodus <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    All Your Hive:

    Yes, but did you buy the original? I still got the huge box with equall huge manual and 3.5" install disks.
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  • iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
    Ah but in simEarth thats where it ends. While in this game this is where it begins. I think the earlier stuff was a step by step tutorial.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    edited March 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Yes, but did you buy the original? I still got the huge box with equall huge manual and 3.5" install disks.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    It came with 2k when I bought that. I spent more time on that then on 2k though. I kept tryign to get those danged Venus Flytrap things to evolve.
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  • docchimpydocchimpy Join Date: 2003-07-19 Member: 18266Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Hellfire3k+Mar 12 2005, 06:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hellfire3k @ Mar 12 2005, 06:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Rave, Conquer! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    *pulls out lightsticks*

    Wooh- oh. Oh I see what you meant there.
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  • iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
    edited March 2005
    Oh and it has crazy compression. Rumors say a 5000:1 compression ratio. (slashdot rumors). "Wright has teamed up with European demo coders to assist the game's design, capitalizing on their reputation for putting together amazing amounts of content in the smallest data space possible."

    He's gonna get everything procedurally coded. That means we'll be actually be able to view galaxies D: down to their individual planets and then zoom closer.

    <a href='http://www.donhopkins.com/home/WillWrightSporeDemo.html' target='_blank'>Notes from the talk at the GDC</a>
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    *Orgasm*
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  • BlobbyBlobby Join Date: 2004-06-11 Member: 29234Members
    Just got back from GDC and have a story for yall.

    A video of Will Wright's speech was planned to be replayed in the GDC theater at 12:30 (only 2 hours after the speech was made) for those who missed it. It's common for major speeches to be shown this way. So word is spreading around the show floor that Will Wright's speech was the best thing EVER and the theater is packed. At 12:29 a volunteer announces, "Due to copyright policies with EA and bla bla bla, we will not be able to show Will Wright's speech." Everybody booed and left angry!

    So if EA is trying to shut up Will Wright about a speech he just made... it HAD to have been good.
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  • iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
    Blobby, there is a copy of the notes of the speech in my last post.
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  • BlobbyBlobby Join Date: 2004-06-11 Member: 29234Members
    I read it. Thanks for that. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm just **** at EA for saying the money I paid for GDC doesn't let me hear it strait form Mr. Wright.
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    So, its confirmed. EA is Satan.
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    ooh yes! I ve always wanted to be a little bacterium!

    woohoo!
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    edited March 2005
    Bacterium you say? <u>Bacterium?</u> Hmm... I hope this game is not dedicated to HUMAN evolution. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    <span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Cleanse the intruders.</span>
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Boring? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • MetalcatMetalcat Join Date: 2004-08-11 Member: 30528Members
    now christians has a new thing to yell at !! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    edited March 2005
    Dammit Metalcat took my idea. Well I'll elaborate. Wright should make a game called Creationism vs. Darwinism and totally bias it toward Darwinism. Which means that at the beginning of the game, all your underlings will be killed by the simplest of objects, but once you research "<i>Warning Labels</i>" in the Information Age, you'll be able to outsmart natural selection.
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    edited March 2005
    you know, I think it so very odd that people take every opportunity to take a crack at Christians, especially with Darwinism. Do they even know that Darwin was studying to be a priest at the time of his voyage and was trying to determine God's method of creation?

    edit: he also included situations in which his theory would fail. Which have been largely ignored.

    I just think people should research what they claim to know.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    I looked at the picture, thought WTH?! Now, I look an hour later and it make sense. The concept also bores the hell out of me.
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  • iFireiFire Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1038Members
    More PICTURES and a mp3 broad cast

    <a href='http://www.gamingsteve.com/podcasts/Gaming-Steve-2005-03-11.mp3' target='_blank'>http://www.gamingsteve.com/podcasts/Gaming...-2005-03-11.mp3</a>

    <a href='http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/03/pictures_of_wil.php' target='_blank'>http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/0...ures_of_wil.php</a>

    <img src='http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/images/spore_amoeba.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
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  • PRTePRTe Join Date: 2003-10-25 Member: 21919Members
    can't wait to get this game.. which will be like a long time more. but it looks and sounds awesome, especially once you get yours creatures developing
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Mantrid+Mar 13 2005, 01:07 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mantrid @ Mar 13 2005, 01:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So, its confirmed. EA is Satan. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think EA must have realised that Will Wright is far too intellegent and talented to be allowed to represent EA games, so they had to silence him.

    Crappy clone sports games aside, Will Wright is what keeps EA in business.
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  • GreeGree Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16454Members
    Am I the only one who wants to conquer the universe as a race of giant space chickens now?
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    Wow. I'm guessing you'd need about 60 hours to beat it once.
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  • DecimatorDecimator Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8057Members
    *bump* Gamespy had a very good article on this: <a href='http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html</a>
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