What Spore May Spawn

ches_grin writes with "A new look at Spore, including a slideshow that examines the broad influence that the game is expected to exert on fields ranging from law to education. From the article: 'Spore's unprecedented level of user-generated content is sure to send ripple effects through and beyond the video-game world. Could the mass-market game provide the tipping point for the burgeoning retail trend of mass customization? How will it redefine the roles of game designers and publishers alike? We asked a variety of experts to predict the economic, educational, legal, and other effects of the game.'"

is it just me?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or does the 4th slide look like it's from C&C Generals? How is that incorporated into Spore? Can I turn my 7 legged, beaked, tentacled, wingged, silver-backed behemoth into a war powerhouse by picking up the remains of my fallen foes like the GLA? FOR MY PEOPLE!!!!!

Spore WILL change the world

[Anonymous Coward]

We will finally have world peace. Linux and Mac will each own 50% of the desktop market. BSD will stop dying. Democrats and Republicans will start making sense. And a few years later we will all get Alzheimer's.

No...

[Anonymous Coward]

... we are GOD! Haven't you heard anything about this game?

Re:MY HERO

[LiquidCoooled]

Will Wright might be a god, but the one true god is John Carmack.

John vs Will in a fight to the death (and beyond), there would be dolls houses' and monsters from hell flying left right and centre (and up and down for the 3d purests).

Isn't this how religious wars start?

I watched some old video on YouTube...

[Anonymous Coward]

and was left with one thought.

Spore starts off as Pacman, moves on to being the Sims but ends up as Space Invaders.

Will Wright sent by aliens to neutralize us!

[StefanJ]

Really. No kidding. The Mutual Interdiction Service of the m'Guhk Meld and the Federation of Eight and the One sent him to neutralize future competition.

Here, read this:

I suggest a different, even darker solution to the [Fermi] Paradox. Basically, I think the aliens don't blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they're too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don't need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today. Once they turn inwards to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot. They become like a self-stimulating rat, pressing a bar to deliver electricity to its brain's ventral tegmental area, which stimulates its nucleus accumbens to release dopamine, which feels...ever so good.

More:

Why We Haven't Met Any Aliens [seedmagazine.com]

Moreover: Battlebots viewers with long memories may recall that Wright's daughter built at least one entry for the robot combat game. No doubt as part of a contingency plan to eliminate those who try to avoid the Games.

Stefan

Re:Borg creature

[Mr. No Skills]

Its simply a good idea gameplay wise not to have to deal with computer controlled bullies.

I would imagine the human controlled bullies will ruin gameplay as much as the computer controlled ones could.

I looked through the articles and movies. Neat look to it, but it seems more like work than play. And having to wait several thousand millenium for evolution seems boring too. It will be interesting to see if you can create the truly humorous genetic manipulations, too. ("poops twice as much as it eats, and likes to eat poop", or "roars so loud it causes nuclear fission of all atoms").

Life is great...

[Wormbrain]

I can't wait to get my hands on this game: To create my own little creatures. To explore the possibilities of life. To raise my own little species.. and then murder them by removing the ladder from their pools.

So this is my new game...

[Spaceman40]

Reminds me of the Penny Arcade comic [penny-arcade.com] that came out last year.