spore

May 19, 2005 10:28 PM

Will Wright's SPORE site online. [note: flash] (Previously discussed here.)
posted by crunchland (10 comments total)

when's this going to be available?
posted by Jon-o at 10:48 PM on May 19, 2005

But will this one have Gaia?

posted by rolypolyman at 10:55 PM on May 19, 2005

After seeing the trailer for Splash Damage's upcoming Quake Wars yesterday, I find those screenshots a little disappointing.

Still, sounds like an interesting game, if not in the run-around-and-commit-mayhem mode that I most enjoy.

(Also, did that animation intro look very goopyesque to anyone else?)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:07 PM on May 19, 2005

Will it run on a Mac?
posted by AlexReynolds at 11:26 PM on May 19, 2005

if only the game looked anything like that flash animation!
posted by Silky Slim at 12:30 AM on May 20, 2005

alex, it's will wright, so probably.
posted by Silky Slim at 12:36 AM on May 20, 2005

I'm still pissed off about Sid Mier's Pirates being released for the fucking XBox but not the mac. That said -- yeah, Spore probably will get an OSX release. (On another note, Spore is so amazingly cool that it's inspired me to design a computer game, despite my programming skills sucking. I don't know what I'm going to do with all these matrices.)
posted by Tlogmer at 2:11 AM on May 20, 2005

Stavros - Wright's games have always been less on flashy graphics and more on content. There's a semi-interesting article on him in this week's Newsweek in which it explains that Wright draws a lot from various (non-game) designers. In essence, it seemed to be: have the game work, thats more important than having it look good.
posted by efalk at 3:43 AM on May 20, 2005

Wright's games lately have plenty of flashy graphics - the level of detail in the Sims 2 for example is stunning.
posted by agregoli at 7:32 AM on May 20, 2005

There's a nice interview over at Wired News with Will Wright about this.

I think it's an interesting idea, I'll probably wind up buying it.
posted by zoogleplex at 11:00 AM on May 20, 2005