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They've already mentioned that at one point in the UFO stage you will get robot parts to make robots or to enhance your species further.
Wait, say what? That is pretty cool. I guess that you can continue modifying your species even after they have fully evolved.
I just remembered something. Does anyone remember those icon pictures that came out a while back? They were on one of the artist's websites, where they were showing off the GUI icons that they made for the game. There were some neat things in there, like the type of worlds available. There was stuff like binary stars and ring worlds. It looked pretty neat.
I want to make creatures with legs, oh so many legs....no arms, just legs.
and a creature with arms, many many arms.
There was a webcomic somewhere talking about this (It might even have been PA) where there was a guy with his ass above his head and they were having a god vs. evolution debate.
I'd love to play this with two totally opposite species, one warmongering evil race and one super intelligent nice race
This thread suggests too many ideas that won't be in
I'd be surprised if flying creatures were in, simply because I think we'd have seen them by now if they were. I've not seen any flying creatures created by the editor, bullbird looks like his wings are more for display.
There were flying creatures as far back as the original GDC '05 presentation. You could see them far off in the air, and Will has been quoted as saying flying creatures will have land-based cities. Kind of a pointless statement to make if there's no flying creatures.
EDIT: Of course, they could have been taken out since then.
About that- how is extinction handled? If you're critter is poorly evolved, will he go extinct?
Because 99% of all living things go extinct eventually, and it doesn't even take a meteor to scrag most of them.
Speaking of- what about natural disasters. If I create a bunch of dinosaurs, can they be wiped out?
I guess it is assumed that all mutations of your creature that you did not choose go extinct. Every species today has had billions of variants that went down the tubes.
I assume there will be a way to lose the game in the end phases, but in early game modes I think it will just be a case of stuff slowing you down. If you can't find food or breed AT ALL though I suppose you will eventually get bored of the evolution game and quit.
My understanding is that if you die you just get bumped back to the last stage of development.
I want to make creatures with legs, oh so many legs....no arms, just legs.
and a creature with arms, many many arms.
There was a webcomic somewhere talking about this (It might even have been PA) where there was a guy with his ass above his head and they were having a god vs. evolution debate.
I'd love to play this with two totally opposite species, one warmongering evil race and one super intelligent nice race
This thread suggests too many ideas that won't be in
I'd be surprised if flying creatures were in, simply because I think we'd have seen them by now if they were. I've not seen any flying creatures created by the editor, bullbird looks like his wings are more for display.
There were flying creatures as far back as the original GDC '05 presentation. You could see them far off in the air, and Will has been quoted as saying flying creatures will have land-based cities. Kind of a pointless statement to make if there's no flying creatures.
EDIT: Of course, they could have been taken out since then.
I meant that we haven't seen them in the editor. I remember seeing them in the background from time to time but... I'm just wary really. Perhaps they're still tweaking the animation generation for flying creatures or something, I guess it wouldn't be that hard to implement so long as the two statuses are "on the ground" and "in the air". I don't expect full three dimensional flying.
Well I was thinking of a race of machines that could eliminate all life in the galaxy. Self replicating, stick one on a planet with your UFO and come back a few days later to find the surface scarred, burned and desolate. A dead world.
A machine world.
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Well I was thinking of a race of machines that could eliminate all life in the galaxy. Self replicating, stick one on a planet with your UFO and come back a few days later to find the surface scarred, burned and desolate. A dead world.
A machine world.
Why eliminate when you can assimilate?
For the record: I hate Star Trek
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Well I was thinking of a race of machines that could eliminate all life in the galaxy. Self replicating, stick one on a planet with your UFO and come back a few days later to find the surface scarred, burned and desolate. A dead world.
I meant that we haven't seen them in the editor. I remember seeing them in the background from time to time but... I'm just wary really. Perhaps they're still tweaking the animation generation for flying creatures or something, I guess it wouldn't be that hard to implement so long as the two statuses are "on the ground" and "in the air". I don't expect full three dimensional flying.
There's a creature with wings on the spore main page. Granted it's a giant bull-bird and might be a mock up of what's possible, but it's description reads that it flies away when threatened.
I expect limited 3d flying for creatures also, though there is the UFO hat moves around in 3d (even though they cheat and have all combat interactions take place on the same 2d plane).
Being able to swoop and soar would be awesome though.
There are flying aircraft in the GDC 06 demo, he builds them and uses them to attack land based enemy tanks.
I dont see why flying creatures would be out. It would be pretty easy to replicate underwater too, just put in some blur and ripple effects over the screen and some fogging.
Well I was thinking of a race of machines that could eliminate all life in the galaxy. Self replicating, stick one on a planet with your UFO and come back a few days later to find the surface scarred, burned and desolate. A dead world.
A machine world.
Why eliminate when you can assimilate?
For the record: I hate Star Trek
the Borg are still awesome though
Regardless of your love/hate of star trek, the Borg of some of the scariest villians to be created. Ever.
There are flying aircraft in the GDC 06 demo, he builds them and uses them to attack land based enemy tanks.
I dont see why flying creatures would be out. It would be pretty easy to replicate underwater too, just put in some blur and ripple effects over the screen and some fogging.
Just a note, there was no GDC '06 demo (Just a bunch of talks about various componants of the development which dissapointed a lot of fans expecting new news).. you're talking about the GDC '05 demo.
There are flying aircraft in the GDC 06 demo, he builds them and uses them to attack land based enemy tanks.
I dont see why flying creatures would be out. It would be pretty easy to replicate underwater too, just put in some blur and ripple effects over the screen and some fogging.
Just a note, there was no GDC '06 demo (Just a bunch of talks about various componants of the development which dissapointed a lot of fans expecting new news).. you're talking about the GDC '05 demo.
My mistake. It was e3 06 with the other long demo, and GDC 05.
I think the e3 was the Robin Williams one which was ace.
Regardless of your love/hate of star trek, the Borg of some of the scariest villians to be created. Ever.
Only provided they're handled right. They kinda sucked as things went on, because writers seemed to get lazy when handling them.
Voyager pretty much put the nail in that coffin. They came up with a season villain, came up with a way around them by the end of the season, then invented a bigger villain and repeated.
Oh, fear the Borg! No wait, even though a single Borg cube destroyed the entire Starfleet force some time back, this lone ship with a limited-yet-never-running-out supply of photon torpedos bravely defies the entire Borg fleet thanks to them becoming retards all of a sudden. End of season!
But, what's this? Oh my, an organic species from Null Space (or whatever) that can destroy the Borg! Luckily, we beat them also. End of season!
Oh, look. A warrior species that HUNTS the species that destroys the Borg! Biggest push-overs of all time. Series ends with a stupid time paradox.
Regardless of your love/hate of star trek, the Borg of some of the scariest villians to be created. Ever.
Only provided they're handled right. They kinda sucked as things went on, because writers seemed to get lazy when handling them.
Voyager pretty much put the nail in that coffin. They came up with a season villain, came up with a way around them by the end of the season, then invented a bigger villain and repeated.
Oh, fear the Borg! No wait, even though a single Borg cube destroyed the entire Starfleet force some time back, this lone ship with a limited-yet-never-running-out supply of photon torpedos bravely defies the entire Borg fleet thanks to them becoming retards all of a sudden. End of season!
But, what's this? Oh my, an organic species from Null Space (or whatever) that can destroy the Borg! Luckily, we beat them also. End of season!
Oh, look. A warrior species that HUNTS the species that destroys the Borg! Biggest push-overs of all time. Series ends with a stupid time paradox.
Blah.
I think you are underestimating just how insanely badass the Doctor was.
Oh man, I need to freeze myself in a glacier until Septemberish.
[edit] - Hey, wait a minute. Wright at one point has to re-drop his 2001 Monolith in an ocean because its inhabitants are aquatic. Hmmmmmm...
The highlights:
2:46pm: He's now showing a Spore demo of the one celled creature looking for "food pellets to eat", and showing how the character begins to grow and evolve. "The world becomes more expansive as the player grows. We show this world becoming larger by pulling the camera farther and farther back." Powers of Ten anyone? "You get to play the creature through every stage of evolution, until you become a fully rendered 3D sort of 'eater'."
Will's "eater" is running around in his virtual world and he uses a "stealth mode" to sneak up on a creature to eat it, and it farts as it's running away. The panic sets off the creature's parents and they kill Will's creature. "Oh ... I wasn't supposed to die." The audience loves this.
2:56pm: He's showing the "UFO Editor" where you can pimp out your interstellar ride, and use the awesome rays (Awesome Raysâ„¢?) in the ship to terraform your planet. Now he's pumping tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and drying up the oceans. Now the entire planet is melting. "The planet is a toy that you can play with, and give someone a sense of long-term dynamics over a very short time." Of course, SUV drivers have been doing this for years.
He takes out the "monolith" tool and uses it to drop one on a planet. "Oops, they're aquatic. I need to drop one in the ocean." Will's UFO looks just like the Starship Enterprise. The aliens have found Will's monolith and are coming out of the ocean. He's trying to get them to worship him, without much success (that's what the audience is there for, Will).
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Wait, say what? That is pretty cool. I guess that you can continue modifying your species even after they have fully evolved.
I just remembered something. Does anyone remember those icon pictures that came out a while back? They were on one of the artist's websites, where they were showing off the GUI icons that they made for the game. There were some neat things in there, like the type of worlds available. There was stuff like binary stars and ring worlds. It looked pretty neat.
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and a creature with arms, many many arms.
There was a webcomic somewhere talking about this (It might even have been PA) where there was a guy with his ass above his head and they were having a god vs. evolution debate.
I'd love to play this with two totally opposite species, one warmongering evil race and one super intelligent nice race
There were flying creatures as far back as the original GDC '05 presentation. You could see them far off in the air, and Will has been quoted as saying flying creatures will have land-based cities. Kind of a pointless statement to make if there's no flying creatures.
EDIT: Of course, they could have been taken out since then.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/060619.jpg
And redone by the Spore team:
http://www.vgcats.com/news/comic_spore_Will.jpg
Since, you know, no mouths and all.
Maybe through photosynthesis?
which reminds me, I wonder if i can put parts on parts. Like, mouths on hands.
Each limb has like nodes.
Im pretty sure in one presentation they had a creature with mouths on its arms.
Is that like seeing the past/present/future and the 4th dimension all at once?
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Well, now I know what I have to do.
Resistance is futile.
<Terminator 2 Theme song>
bzzt?
Thank you.
A machine world.
Why eliminate when you can assimilate?
There's a creature with wings on the spore main page. Granted it's a giant bull-bird and might be a mock up of what's possible, but it's description reads that it flies away when threatened.
I expect limited 3d flying for creatures also, though there is the UFO hat moves around in 3d (even though they cheat and have all combat interactions take place on the same 2d plane).
Being able to swoop and soar would be awesome though.
I dont see why flying creatures would be out. It would be pretty easy to replicate underwater too, just put in some blur and ripple effects over the screen and some fogging.
Regardless of your love/hate of star trek, the Borg of some of the scariest villians to be created. Ever.
ARGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGHGHGHGHGHGHGGGH!!!1
Just a note, there was no GDC '06 demo (Just a bunch of talks about various componants of the development which dissapointed a lot of fans expecting new news).. you're talking about the GDC '05 demo.
Only provided they're handled right. They kinda sucked as things went on, because writers seemed to get lazy when handling them.
That said: I'm not a fan of star trek either, but I gotta admit that the borg are a pretty important idea in the history of SF.
My mistake. It was e3 06 with the other long demo, and GDC 05.
I think the e3 was the Robin Williams one which was ace.
Oh, fear the Borg! No wait, even though a single Borg cube destroyed the entire Starfleet force some time back, this lone ship with a limited-yet-never-running-out supply of photon torpedos bravely defies the entire Borg fleet thanks to them becoming retards all of a sudden. End of season!
But, what's this? Oh my, an organic species from Null Space (or whatever) that can destroy the Borg! Luckily, we beat them also. End of season!
Oh, look. A warrior species that HUNTS the species that destroys the Borg! Biggest push-overs of all time. Series ends with a stupid time paradox.
Blah.
I think you are underestimating just how insanely badass the Doctor was.
1. Time paradox anomalies
2. The main deflector dish
Only 60% of the 4th dimension.
But I didn't see many episodes, so maybe that's way off or they got revamped at some point.
Oh man, I need to freeze myself in a glacier until Septemberish.
[edit] - Hey, wait a minute. Wright at one point has to re-drop his 2001 Monolith in an ocean because its inhabitants are aquatic. Hmmmmmm...
[edit2] - Pictures!
The revamped creature editor:
Wright's newest nightmare:
A close-up of the stats involved. Very interesting, and very RPGish:
Wright's UFO, not at all similar to a certain famous spaceship:
Said ship gets shooty on some poor sods:
The highlights:
2:46pm: He's now showing a Spore demo of the one celled creature looking for "food pellets to eat", and showing how the character begins to grow and evolve. "The world becomes more expansive as the player grows. We show this world becoming larger by pulling the camera farther and farther back." Powers of Ten anyone? "You get to play the creature through every stage of evolution, until you become a fully rendered 3D sort of 'eater'."
Will's "eater" is running around in his virtual world and he uses a "stealth mode" to sneak up on a creature to eat it, and it farts as it's running away. The panic sets off the creature's parents and they kill Will's creature. "Oh ... I wasn't supposed to die." The audience loves this.
2:56pm: He's showing the "UFO Editor" where you can pimp out your interstellar ride, and use the awesome rays (Awesome Raysâ„¢?) in the ship to terraform your planet. Now he's pumping tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and drying up the oceans. Now the entire planet is melting. "The planet is a toy that you can play with, and give someone a sense of long-term dynamics over a very short time." Of course, SUV drivers have been doing this for years.
He takes out the "monolith" tool and uses it to drop one on a planet. "Oops, they're aquatic. I need to drop one in the ocean." Will's UFO looks just like the Starship Enterprise. The aliens have found Will's monolith and are coming out of the ocean. He's trying to get them to worship him, without much success (that's what the audience is there for, Will).