Let Spore a Guinness and play forever

[Occhidiangela]

If you want to talk about Realms Beyond the current game genres, I think this is it. Civ 4 and more, this looks like a time sink to end all time sinks.

Release date late 2006, or so they say.

Of course, the EA tie in may put some people off.

Occhi

[whitewolfpoet]

wow that is extremely cool. its like a mix of sim earth + sim city + civilization + alpha centauri

[KingOfPain]

Looks awesome.

Here's and hour long VIDEO of him talking about Spore and Procedural Content.

KoP

[Drasca]

Gamespy article here.

I question how truly varied the interactivity and how 'smart' the ai's can be. Designing models on the fly is very very neat, even if it is limited and not as powerful as with 'real' tools.

Neverwinter nights made such a promise of user created content. Power over the game and ruleset wasn't so great.

Morrowind gave a very powerful editor, but its AI and in-game physical rules are still imited.

How much power will Spore really have? I see dynamic models. That's fun to a point, but how much will model changing really affect interactivity? What he proposes is powerful and fairly innovative, but still somewhat limited.

Mind you, I loved Simearth, and I like what he is proposing because I've played enjoyed simulators like that, but unless there's power and variance over how the creatures interact with each other, the 'game' portion feels fairly hollow. However, if different creature design greatly affects how they function, this might be a very complex game indeed.

I can't help but think of Black and White. Will the creatures really learn, grow, become their own personalities? Time will tell, but I somehow doubt establishing individual behaviour for that many creatres can be achieved on single home computers.

[CelticHound]

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-- CH

[Occhidiangela]

http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?strip=20051002

(It's a comic strip devoted to librarians, for all love!)

-- CH

I was thinking about you last week, the Lorena McKennit CD was on and wondered what you are up to.

I love Hiaasen. Is Skinny Dip his latest? I can't remember if I read that or not, I do recall reading Sick Puppy. I think that was the last one of his I read.

Occhi

[Griselda]

I had a good time reading Hoot with my daughter, and we're planning to try Flush just as soon as A Series of Unfortunate Events gets tiring again.

I haven't read any of his books for adults, but I really like how he doesn't seem to dumb down his writing for children. It's such a relief to read something for kids that still has an interesting plot and characters. Some of the subject matter can be tough, especially for an 8-year-old, but I'd take that over shallow episodic writing any day of the week.

[KingOfPain]

Anyone planning to buy this game? Seems they have an official release date - 07/Sept/08. The Creature Editor is out already for $9.99. I am downloading the Creature Editor Free Trial as we speak. (can't make it to the store yet, yea I want the box)

KoP

[Griselda]

I am definitely planning on getting it. As an added bonus, Soren Johnson, of CIV fame, has been working on it lately. He was really responsive to fans and to members of the RB and Civfanatics community during the development of CIV.

[Cyrene]

As an added bonus, Soren Johnson, of CIV fame, has been working on it lately. He was really responsive to fans and to members of the RB and Civfanatics community during the development of CIV.

I like Soren.

He/She/It has always been most gracious to me about legetimate concerns about a game.

As opposed to certain Dev's from a publishing house who's name rhymes with "Sony".

--Cy

grudge? who, me?