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#26
meh. I think it's going to be quite similar to the sims. Menaing that it isn't much of a game per se, but will attract millions of "non-gamers", while for people like me, it'll be fun for about 15 minutes.

There was a quite extensive preview in a german gaming mag this month which pretty much stated my fears: it's not really an ongoing developement, but rather five bad to mediocre mini games slapped onto each other.
 
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#28
Yeah it is fun for trying out new stuff, seeing the effects of certain elements etc.
Sims is a good example. If you just want to "finish" the game you can maximize your skills, get all the job rewards and fulfill all the sims' wants and be done in 3 to 4 hours tops. But if you like testing things, seeing how they react and whatnot then you could sit days or weeks on different sims.
It will probably be the same for Spore. You could finish the whole game in 5 hours, Will said this, but you could sit days and weeks on making new creatures and populating them in the online database. I enjoy sims from time to time, so Spore will definitly be a get because this interests me a lot more than electronic drama.
 
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new vid and info!
Here is a new 30 minute Spore Video with Will Wright speaking at Nasa. And get this, it's almost all about the Space stage! The first half of the video is of Will running through the space stage, showing off the different features and abilities, and the second half of the video is a question and answer period where he answers some good questions. This is perhaps the most informative video since GDC 05.
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http://blip.tv/file/652152

John Riccitiello, the Chief Executive Officer (boss) of EA had a speech at the D.I.C.E. conference yesterday, where he confirmed his "enormous faith" in Spore once again.
He said:
"I believe it's going to be one of the greatest franchises in our industry and will rival World of Warcraft or The Sims or Rock Band. It's going to be right up there."
He is still playing with the latest version of Spore, actually he is "fixated on it".
When he was asked about a possible failure of Spore, he said:
"It's probably the greatest creative risk maybe going on in the game industry today," but also added that "EA is100% behind the team that's creating that, and we will live and fall together"
When he talked about EA's policy with the smaller internal studios, he admitted EA's failure about ruling too strictly, and during that, destroying these studios in the past. "EA blew it, and to a certain degree, since I was involved, I blew it."
As a counterexample, he specifically mentioned Maxis, along with EA Canada, and that these two studios produced the two most popular franchises, The Sims and Need for Speed, even though these are the most independent studios.: "In essence, these two companies took over Electronic Arts,"
He expressed his plan to give the small studios even more independence, because this seems to be the most effective way.
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#36
read - preview of complete game :cool:

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/02/13/spore_hands-on_preview/1

this bit jumped out at me

Before we delve deeply into the well of never-ending gameplay that Spore claims to offer, we should talk about the Pollination System that Spore uses to keep the game full of brand new content at all times. Pollinated content is something that Electronic Arts and Maxis have tried to show off before at Leipzig, but felt that it was misunderstood by journalists and misrepresented to fans.

It also happens to be one of the coolest and most interesting things about the game on both a technical and casual level as it’s the system by which Spore is creating a whole new genre – Massively Online Singleplayer.

Yeah, that seems like a contradiction. Bear with us and let us explain.

Every time a player starts a game in Spore they’re given a new planet. The planet is the same every time and serves as little more than a blank slate for the creatures to play on.

Except, it isn’t always the same and, although the landscape is always basically the same, the types of other animals and vegetation are actually sourced from other Spore players. Their content spills over into your game to keep things fun and perpetually new but, in order to accommodate to casual gamers and those who don’t actually want to play multiplayer, those players aren’t actually in control of their content.

EA calls the technology behind this idea a Sporecast and revealed to us how it ties into a huge and previously unseen social network behind Spore.

The best way to describe exactly how Sporecasts work is by example; so imagine that you’ve just booted up the game and named your planet. You’ve gone straight to the second level of the game—the creature phase—and you’re running around like a madman. Now, the basic planet is always the same – you’ll have the same hills, the same continents and so forth. What is different is everything else; animals, vegetation, allies and enemies for your race. These are all taken from the Sporecasts of other players.

This works both ways and as you create new races and aliens they too will be downloaded via the Sporepedia by other players.

Sporepedia is the framework around which all of Spore is built. At its most basic level it’s little more than a catalogue of free content and a help-desk through which players can get tips and guides. Delve a little further though and Sporepedia becomes much more and players can start to take advantage of the social networking tools held within.

Each player in the game has a page on the Sporepedia and it’s possible to browse through by using any number of filters and tags to see a specific player. From that page you can send messages to that player, see what Sporecasts they have created and so on and so forth. You can even monitor their popularity and see what achievements they’ve unlocked in the campaign game.

The game will automatically download suitable Sporecasts if you’ve not selected ones and the content is designed so that the community itself can decide what is and isn’t appropriate for players. At any time though players can access the Sporepedia and download either whole Sporecasts, which are composed of many pieces of content, or specific pieces which they like.

So, say for example that I wanted my new world to be heavily Mango-themed. All I would need to do is open the Sporepedia whilst playing, search for Mango Sporecasts and download them. The computer will then litter my universe with Mangoes – or the fruit of my choice. Alternatively, I can decide I want just one specific Mango and place that in my world myself.

The social networking elements in Spore do look truly stunning and already there’s a wealth of content available from the testers and developers – everything from flying toilets to animals that look like letters! Amazingly the whole process is specially compressed too and an entire Sporecase will only weigh in at 8KB, meaning that even the most pathetic of rigs won’t have to worry about space restrictions.
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#38
selected quotes from the media who got to play the whole thing recently - click on each title link to read the full thing

That newsweek interview is nicely indepth - Spore is sounding better and better!
http://www.xspore.com/news/380_media_news.html

lots of new tech on offer!
-"Cities can be either economic, religious or military"
-"For any city, for any colony I make, a [musical] theme will be generated for it," he said." the music generator allows users to jump in and create their own themes by clicking and dragging musical notes. "I could put in the Star Wars theme if I wanted to," Wright said.
 
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