Gaming Spore: Hands-on Preview

Interesting. The development of working procedural design is going to change gaming forever. I was reading about a game in a magazine someone had brought to work that claims to offer something like 500,000 different, procedurally generated, weapons to play with. Even the maps are generated procedurally so while the basic enviroment doesn't change, the interesting bits (structures, enemies, supplies, etc) are different every time you play.

Spore looks amazine, and while it doesn't turn my crank much, I'm really glad they have made this work!

 

This looks amazing. Just curious as to how much freedom you have to change your creatures evolution. Could you create the lifecycle of the xenomorph from the film alien for instance i.e parasitic facehugger/alien. Also the cultural evolution, can you make them work like an ant colonies "hive mind"(serving the Queen), rather than a more traditional human colony, or do all creatures follow the same basic steps in evolution?

 

wasn't all that interested in this game (was going to keep an eye on it though) since it seemed like mostly talk. after reading the preview though, now all i want to do is make the races from star wars XD

 

O_O, ill have a go too...

 

Personally I'm envisaging something more akin to Attack of The Booby Monsters, but hey, whatever floats your boats...

 

There's already been talk about steps to prevent this. Users will be able to flag "inappropriate" content and if it gets enough flags it will be removed from the Spore servers.

And about those screens shots, are there any more, because I know a forum that would be ecstatic if they saw more.

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/02/spore_hands-on_preview/b2.jpg

Just replace the last number with an integer between 2 and 22. I can't be arsed to upload them all seperately. Be sure to give us a link though

 

This might just become the first game i buy since Oblivion and GTA:SA. I like it, despite it being very unhip.

 

Tribute to Mankini Man? Hahaha

 

I've been waiting for this since when he first showed it off, I can't wait

 

Oh my

 

I thought you got unlimited DNA points after a certain stage.. Odd.


I'm happy to know we can have wings though!


Dragon creature here I come w00t


Btw..

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Can or can't?

 

can't - i.e. there's no in-game tool to do it.

 

oh! my life will make a turn for the worst at september 7th

 

You lucky fart!

That game looks like so much fun, cant wait for it .

 

bah, the cellular stage doesn't look as cool as in the e3 videos and such imo.

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HUH? i thought the planets were supposed to be procedurally generated so they're NOT always the same damn thing...

 

It was the first question I asked one of the games producers (interview forthcoming), and he said that that wasn't the case. The game uses the exact same planet everytime.

 

Awesome, you guys are the best

 

Maybe it's just me but it seems like the screen shots look a bit choppy. Obviously graphics aren't the only thing to a game but jaggies seem a bit too 1990s.

 

Glad to hear that Spore will be retaining most or all of it's promised glory, as really everything about it said "prune me down to something stupid while retaining all of the original hype!".