What I want to know is when we get the creature editor demo. I mean it's got to be done by now, right? Hopefully it'll be released a while before the full game comes out.
And we'd better be able to import created creatures from the demo into the full game.
Have they said they're going to release a demo of that? seems an odd decision to release a part of the game like that. It'd be like releasing the character creation screen of an MMO before the MMO was even released.
Not when you consider their proposed content model. Letting people have the editor would provide them with thousands upon thousands of free creatures to populate their database with before launch. Whether this concept has survived til now is a good question.
I'm.. Guardedly not rushing their headquarters with a flaming pitch fork bridge cow anchor?
What I want to know is when we get the creature editor demo. I mean it's got to be done by now, right? Hopefully it'll be released a while before the full game comes out.
And we'd better be able to import created creatures from the demo into the full game.
Have they said they're going to release a demo of that? seems an odd decision to release a part of the game like that. It'd be like releasing the character creation screen of an MMO before the MMO was even released.
Yes they have:
IGN: You're releasing tools with Spore?
Lucy Bradshaw: We're not releasing any underlying tools yet but what we will be doing is releasing a creature creator, a free trial version in advance of the game. That's going to be not only to the community, but that'll go wide.
They did a similar thing with the Sims 2, releasing Body Shop before the game was out in stores. It allowed people to make their own sims, and start on their own custom sim clothing. And it builds hype, of course.
I'm excited for Spore still. Maybe not as much as when I saw the first few videos, but I'm hoping it'll be worth the wait. I love sandbox style games.
The interview that Will Wright did with Wired magazine recently states that they expect to release the creature editor a few months before the release of the game. He goes on to say you can import your creatures into the game and play them, also there will be a little button on the editor that will start flashing green and asking you if you want to buy the game, when it becomes available.
As for the tech specs, you'll note that will wright at the recent NASA demo is still running the game on the same Dell XPS laptop he's been using since 2006. The game looks amazing, and I don't think the requirements will be too onerous.
The fact that one of the first things I'll do is try and create as close of an exact replica of Earth as is possible and reasonable makes me think that I'm a complete loser.
The fact that one of the first things I'll do is try and create as close of an exact replica of Earth as is possible and reasonable makes me think that I'm a complete loser.
Lol, the Maxis guys beat ya too it. Check out the NASA demo, the last system Will visits is the Sol system. He terraforms Mars. Is it me, or do the little critters running around on mars after he terraforms it look a lot like the aliens in Heinlein's Red Planet?
Wow. I've been waiting for this game for so long that I stopped expecting it come out at all. And what's even better is that it releases around the time I'll be done with Brawl.
Does anyone know if all the content users make is shared? Or is there some kind of quality control? Because i'm fairly certain the world's gamers will be able to produce far more horrifically bad looking content than quality content. This has always been my gripe with user created content. Just look at stuff like mods and player created maps for various games. There are some fantastic ones out there, but most of them are severely lacking. In those scenarios they don't get used by people as noone wants to play crap levels, but it sounds like these just get sucked up into the "universe" and sent to people.
I am only saying this because i plan on experimenting with some ridiculous looking creatures myself, that i wouldn't want to inflict on anyone else's gaming experience!
Any word on the underwater stage? Or underwater critters? Or flying critters? Or, besides from the nebulous "the space game is 30+ hours if you want it, and there's difficulty modes for earlier modes" how long each stage is going to be?
There's been this one Wikipedia nazi editor ("This is MY article and YOU CAN'T EDIT IT, NYAH!") who missed the announcement of the Wii version of Spore, so has been rather rudely undoing any edits mentioning it (and yelling at people who add them)... until that Level Up interview yesterday, where they spend about half a page talking about the Wii version, you know, that one they announced months ago?
Bleh. The #1 worst thing about Wikipedia is the "alpha users".
Does anyone know if all the content users make is shared? Or is there some kind of quality control? Because i'm fairly certain the world's gamers will be able to produce far more horrifically bad looking content than quality content. This has always been my gripe with user created content. Just look at stuff like mods and player created maps for various games. There are some fantastic ones out there, but most of them are severely lacking. In those scenarios they don't get used by people as noone wants to play crap levels, but it sounds like these just get sucked up into the "universe" and sent to people.
I am only saying this because i plan on experimenting with some ridiculous looking creatures myself, that i wouldn't want to inflict on anyone else's gaming experience!
You should read the interview on N'Gai Croal's blog Level Up. There's like this huge underlying social networking thing for sharing, rating, tagging content and so forth. So the first categories to be made will probably be 'Butts' and 'Genitalia'. There isn't any QC as far as Wil has said, I think the community will auto-regulate with the rating and tagging.
Does anyone know if all the content users make is shared? Or is there some kind of quality control? Because i'm fairly certain the world's gamers will be able to produce far more horrifically bad looking content than quality content. This has always been my gripe with user created content. Just look at stuff like mods and player created maps for various games. There are some fantastic ones out there, but most of them are severely lacking. In those scenarios they don't get used by people as noone wants to play crap levels, but it sounds like these just get sucked up into the "universe" and sent to people.
I am only saying this because i plan on experimenting with some ridiculous looking creatures myself, that i wouldn't want to inflict on anyone else's gaming experience!
You should read the interview on N'Gai Croal's blog Level Up. There's like this huge underlying social networking thing for sharing, rating, tagging content and so forth. So the first categories to be made will probably be 'Butts' and 'Genitalia'. There isn't any QC as far as Wil has said, I think the community will auto-regulate with the rating and tagging.
Personally, I'm hoping there's a category blocker, so you can automatically ignore anything flagged "obscene", "stupid", "hacked", or "lulz".
I like how the beginning of the teaser has the "content may be inappropriate for children" warning.
Also, the linked photo album had an interesting "quest" item..."Mate so that you can have a baby!"
Any word on the underwater stage? Or underwater critters? Or flying critters? Or, besides from the nebulous "the space game is 30+ hours if you want it, and there's difficulty modes for earlier modes" how long each stage is going to be?
Flying creatures are in, so yes expect cliff racers. Underwater creatures is still unknown, but you are supposed to be able to build underwater cities (in domes).
Wow, according to that NASA thing, they made 200 prototypes of SPORE, and the final version is a merger of about 10 of them. o.O
So flying critters are definitely in?
I have every intention of making a horde of cute little spider-things of doom. Or maybe a "jumpstrap" race, that shall then genetically engineer a perfect spider-thing of doom, then use a monolith to force evolve the galaxy's destruction.
Seriously, as small as I can get them, 8 legs (1 pair will have a set of hands instead), with a weapon of some kind on their butts. They'll breed like rabbits, be extremely social and territorial, and viciously warlike. I plan on being the "Oh god, not THESE assholes" again race for the early space game.
Do you mean creatures that end up underwater? Or the evolution phase from single cell organism, because that was the bit I was most excited about ...
You still start out as a single celled organism in water, although back in the day you would then evolve as a underwater creature (like a seal or fish) then evolve lungs and legs to move up on land, if you wanted to. In every video for the past year or so, instead of that, you end up on land as a sea-slug type thing after the single cell game.
One of my planetary creations will like be a central ring like device to simulate a stargate.... I'm going to have a blast meshing Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate together, among other odd ball creations....
the potentials of this game are pretty much limitless.... You'd be an idiot to not want it...
i still care a lot, but its a laid back kind of theoretical caring about playing it some time in the future. not a get hyped up only to be disappointed when its delayed again kind of caring.
One of my planetary creations will like be a central ring like device to simulate a stargate.... I'm going to have a blast meshing Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate together, among other odd ball creations....
the potentials of this game are pretty much limitless.... You'd be an idiot to not want it...
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Your cliff racers may be the scourge of the galaxy but my Doom Rabbits will wash over the universe like a tide of death and decay, purging unbelievers with the swift justice of the afterlife. kneel. Kneel or be destroyed.
on the subject of games with internet propagating avatars, my Miis have wandered to people's Wiis who don't even have my friend code... I saw this creature I created posted on a forum in which I never posted my code:
back on the subject of spore, the hype has definitely died down for me (really, it died down about 2 years ago), but if they actually release it sometime this millennium and it's truly an awesome game, I will certainly enjoy it.
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Have they said they're going to release a demo of that? seems an odd decision to release a part of the game like that. It'd be like releasing the character creation screen of an MMO before the MMO was even released.
I'm.. Guardedly not rushing their headquarters with a flaming pitch fork bridge cow anchor?
Yes they have:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/851/851665p2.html
I'm excited for Spore still. Maybe not as much as when I saw the first few videos, but I'm hoping it'll be worth the wait. I love sandbox style games.
As for the tech specs, you'll note that will wright at the recent NASA demo is still running the game on the same Dell XPS laptop he's been using since 2006. The game looks amazing, and I don't think the requirements will be too onerous.
The fact that one of the first things I'll do is try and create as close of an exact replica of Earth as is possible and reasonable makes me think that I'm a complete loser.
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Lol, the Maxis guys beat ya too it. Check out the NASA demo, the last system Will visits is the Sol system. He terraforms Mars. Is it me, or do the little critters running around on mars after he terraforms it look a lot like the aliens in Heinlein's Red Planet?
http://kotaku.com/355796/europe-gets-spore-two-days-early
Suck it, Yanks.
Two days early balances out the games we get 2 weeks/2months early, right?
I hope your cover art sucks!
So when's Brawl coming out over there? 8-)
It'd be a first..
edit: and I neither own a Wii, nor am fussed about Brawl. Try again!
Ouch, then you lose two ways.
I am only saying this because i plan on experimenting with some ridiculous looking creatures myself, that i wouldn't want to inflict on anyone else's gaming experience!
"What the fuck is that?!?" *Nukes Planet*
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Also, LOL Wikipedia.
There's been this one Wikipedia nazi editor ("This is MY article and YOU CAN'T EDIT IT, NYAH!") who missed the announcement of the Wii version of Spore, so has been rather rudely undoing any edits mentioning it (and yelling at people who add them)... until that Level Up interview yesterday, where they spend about half a page talking about the Wii version, you know, that one they announced months ago?
Bleh. The #1 worst thing about Wikipedia is the "alpha users".
You should read the interview on N'Gai Croal's blog Level Up. There's like this huge underlying social networking thing for sharing, rating, tagging content and so forth. So the first categories to be made will probably be 'Butts' and 'Genitalia'. There isn't any QC as far as Wil has said, I think the community will auto-regulate with the rating and tagging.
Personally, I'm hoping there's a category blocker, so you can automatically ignore anything flagged "obscene", "stupid", "hacked", or "lulz".
Also, the linked photo album had an interesting "quest" item..."Mate so that you can have a baby!"
The DS version doesn't look very exciting.
Thanks for taking the NASA video!
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Pretty decent preview that, once again, glosses over the space portion with no details.
Watch the NASA presentation linked a page or two back.
Flying creatures are in, so yes expect cliff racers. Underwater creatures is still unknown, but you are supposed to be able to build underwater cities (in domes).
I really hope that part gets put back in later, I was looking forward to it. Coming out of the primordial soup as a blob strait onto land feels weird.
So flying critters are definitely in?
I have every intention of making a horde of cute little spider-things of doom. Or maybe a "jumpstrap" race, that shall then genetically engineer a perfect spider-thing of doom, then use a monolith to force evolve the galaxy's destruction.
Seriously, as small as I can get them, 8 legs (1 pair will have a set of hands instead), with a weapon of some kind on their butts. They'll breed like rabbits, be extremely social and territorial, and viciously warlike. I plan on being the "Oh god, not THESE assholes" again race for the early space game.
You still start out as a single celled organism in water, although back in the day you would then evolve as a underwater creature (like a seal or fish) then evolve lungs and legs to move up on land, if you wanted to. In every video for the past year or so, instead of that, you end up on land as a sea-slug type thing after the single cell game.
One of my planetary creations will like be a central ring like device to simulate a stargate.... I'm going to have a blast meshing Star Wars, Star Trek and Stargate together, among other odd ball creations....
the potentials of this game are pretty much limitless.... You'd be an idiot to not want it...
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back on the subject of spore, the hype has definitely died down for me (really, it died down about 2 years ago), but if they actually release it sometime this millennium and it's truly an awesome game, I will certainly enjoy it.