Will Wright's E3 Spore Presentation 77
moto writes "ThinkGaming is reporting from E3, and had a chance to take a look at Will Wright's Spore during the early-hours press access. From the article: 'To start, Will showed an overview of the latest creature editing system. He mentioned that almost all parts of the editing system, from hands to the mouth, control the creature in its entirety - from its personality to the way it sounds, etc. In addition, the color system is a procedural texturing system that lays initially colors, then various textures (scales, etc.) and more all on top of your creature model. It looks like an incredibly intricate system, as has been seen quite a bit so far in previous videos. It looked like it was nearing completion and would allow for endless possibilities.'"
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>I have 4 words for you: procedural procedural procedural procedural...
Oh, crap. Will's just procedurally evolved a Steve Ballmer.
Oh, double crap. The procedure's viral, too.
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For lack of a better word... (Score:2)
I'm not a big gamer myself... heck, I've touched my xbox once in the last year (and still haven't finished Halo 2) but this game... bo ya! It's one of the few I am truly looking forward to.
I may need to save my vacation time so that I can avoid work and sunlight for a week or two after things baby comes out.
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It's OK. Neither did Bungie.
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The parent's linked video is pretty much the exact same demo I saw in person, with only some minor differences (i.e. he said that the ability to toss things with your abduction ray was
There is one thing I am scared of with this game. (Score:4, Funny)
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Now we get, what, 10 minute videos, and of course when the marketing starts there'll be 30-second spots etc. And this is supposed to be a _better_ reason to get excited than a nearly complete walkthrough? 30 seconds of shallowness?
Attention s
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http://thinkgaming.org/articles/spore_e3/211.jpg [thinkgaming.org]
excited yet?
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From what I've seen, the game looks more like intelligent design to me..
(..ducks)
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4 posts. . . .and /.'d already. . . . (Score:1, Offtopic)
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1) walk around.
2) shoot.
3) repeat until sick and tired.
The variety comes from all the different colors of keys you can find.
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I think you just described my career.
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Speaking as someone who keeps a small tub of Legos by the computer, I think I can probably say that I've got it preordered!
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5) Form tribal society
6) Advanced technologically to a city based civilization
7) Interact with other civilizations on your homeworld
8) Advance to space faring race
9) Colonize and terraform other worlds
10) Search for and find other intelligent life in the universe
11) interact with these civilizations (trade, combat, etc.)
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7) Interact with other civilizations on your homeworld
8) Advance to space faring race
9) Colonize and terraform other worlds
It's amazing how difficult progressing past 7 seems to be for the residents of this planet.
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1. Move around
2. Make a creature
2. Move around
3. Change your creature
4. Play civ
5. play sim earth
6. play sim galaxy
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2. Make a creature
How can you move around before you even make the creature?
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Okay, stop right there. The first two may be boring, but when I'm bored with number 3, I'll go to step 5: death.
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I'm sure it does to lots of people; that's why they make different kinds of games for different tastes. But games with similar profiles have been popular (most notably, of course, The Sims), so I don't see why this wouldn't be.
I know I'll be buying it when it comes out, and then fighting my wife for the computer to play it, even worse than with The Sims 2.
Maybe it'll justify keeping two good desktop systems.
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Complete control over all aspects of the creatures?
Textures that could possibly be construed as flesh-colored?
I think we have a Hot Chromosome scandal coming up. Jack Thompson, get your subpoenas ready.
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Drat (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like I won't be getting very far in this game.
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longer video from GDCTV (Score:1)
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Where's the FUN...? (Score:2, Interesting)
But will the game be FUN?! I guess maybe it's kind of like the Sims, where users create their own fun...?
Can someone explain it to me?
Adman
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That depends on who you are. I expect it will be fun for me.
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Animal crossing, similarly, has a few different score-like things, as well as different win-conditions depending on user preference. A "perfect town," a full catalog at Nook's, museum collections, HRA scores, etc. Depending on your goals, it's entirely possible to "win" at Animal Crossing.
You'
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Really, how WOULD you score the game? Number of times your creature mates? ;)
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God damn it Zonk (Score:1, Offtopic)
"ThinkGaming is reporting from E3, and had a chance to take a look at Will Wright's Spore during the early-hours press access."
The Zonk approach: link from "Will Wright's Spore" goes to thinkgaming.org article.
The *sensible* approach: link from "Will Wright's Spore" goes to official site; link from "ThinkGaming is reporting" goes to thinkgaming.org article.
I mean seriously, how many times do you have to post "edited for clarity - Z" before you figure it out?
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Here's an idea: maybe by linking relevant text rather than the website name, spiders can extract meaningful data about the linked page other than the obvious "it's from ThinkGaming". Useful in a different way than what you mentioned. After all, you don't stop using a spoon altogether just because a fork exists, right?
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Why would there be an uproar from them? Basically it simulates a universe that is constructed as they think it actually is.
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Obligatory Penny Arcade Link (Score:2)