Spore demonstration.

Sett · Mar 2006

I think this may have been posted before but here is a direct link.

Spore demo. It starts off slow but then..

Wow, very impressive.

I wonder how long it is before your creation stops believing in you.

Justin Meisse · Mar 2006

ah, this explains the Spore resurgance.
Maybe we should have a "design your own spore creature" modeling challenge.

Hollowmind · Mar 2006

oooooooo I hope it'll run on my machine.

EDIT: ah dammit that's not a demo! That's just a vid of the gameplay.

They were talking about it in #MD.

aesir · Mar 2006

lol justin. That'll show will that he cant make good art procedurally

Slash · Mar 2006

GAAH! Thanks for the heartattack mate! For a second there i thought they released a playable demo!!

Gah, i'll go cry myself to sleep now!

(btw, for those who want the whole presentation, slides and better quality video, visit GDCTV.)

thnom · Mar 2006

I doubt they'll be a demo of it. There never was for The Sims. Its not the kind of game you play around with really, maybe time limited?

Anyhow - that video is DAMN impressive and shows real coding genius although I think I'll get bored with it fairly quickly, personally.

MoP · Mar 2006

Looks awesome to me. I want it now. I hope they release it this year (I read November release date somewhere, but you know how these things slip...)

Hedhunta · Mar 2006

damn that is soooo cool! .. im thinking spore 2(look at me already looking way too far ahead) would be awesome as a sort of mmo, where players are allowed their own galaxy, and at a certain point the universe is "opened up" to allow conquering other galaxies, etc.. thatd be freakin awesome!

Valandar · Mar 2006

Something is UTTERLY wrong with "Procedural Mating"...

Spoon_of_death · Mar 2006

Mannn my heart filled with joy when I saw the thread title!!! But it was just that gameplay vid heh

I wonder how 'procedural' everything is, sofar the creature and buildings he made in the video look a lot like the ones from the screenshots that have been around for a while now...

Justin Meisse · Mar 2006

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sofar the creature and buildings he made in the video look a lot like the ones from the screenshots that have been around for a while now...

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It's actually an old video, from last years GDC

FatAssasin · Mar 2006

HonkyPunch · Mar 2006

Damn you!
I was hoping it was a playable dealy.
Gawd

Neo_God · Mar 2006

Oh my, this game looks like it will be so much fun! Get to see Darwinism at it's best, haha. Because I'm sure they'll be plenty of creatures you create that pretty much suck at life, and you'll have to modify it to be the best.

Hollowmind · Mar 2006

Ok I finally watched the whole thing....oh my freakin' god...

Soccerman18 · Mar 2006

If I heard him right it sounds like it's a single player game based around multiplayer content? So like I build a civilization that would be downloaded to your comp and then the computer takes over it as you play? That sounds so friggin cool. Awsome way to expand the environment.

Hollowmind · Mar 2006

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Not only that but it sounds like a good solution to make the game as huge as it is without eating a ton more resources than it already probably does.

Neo_God · Mar 2006

though yeah, this would be a cool MMO, but I can see it already, you just start out, and have your organism eating little things, and some jerk just swoops down in his saucer and blows up your planet, just because they're bored.

Wells · Mar 2006

haha, I loved when he zoomed out and destroyed the alien planet. Take that you inhospitable fuckers!

god I want to mess around in this game.

arshlevon · Mar 2006

this is quite possible the coolest thing i have ever seen. sadly he managed to combine every game i hate the most into one super ball of games arsh hates. i hate god games, sim games, sandbox games, RTS games, anything that revovles around isometric style view that is not marble madness i am guarenteed to hate. i am more of a get in there and game and get the fuck out kind of guy. i dont want to level up or get a new thingy for my thing, manage money, tell people what to do, build shit. thats all stuff you can do in real life, waste lots of time earing tokens for your time and cashing those time tokens in for trinkets to make you think all the work is worth it. i have to admit that is by far the most impressive feat of gaming i have ever seen, i just have a feeling this is one i am going to be watching my girlfriend play a lot, just like the sims, black and white, civ, age of empires, movies, anything i dont like she automatically loves.

Hollowmind · Mar 2006

but it has procedural mating! think of the possibilities!

Valandar · Mar 2006

Yes, the possibility YOU will never experience procedural mating, yourself...

gauss · Mar 2006

arsh: i agree, i pretty much never play any of the games that Spore has rolled up into its mega game, but i think by the very nature that it treats each of those games in a much broader fashion than any of the games it's based on, i might be able to enjoy this one to a great degree. since it can't be a full fledged RTS or Civilization game because that stage is just one part of the overall process, i think that'll curb some of the less enjoyable complexities that naturally creep into those respective game types, as that's the whole game.

with Spore... damn. Will Wright is such an asshole, didn't anyone tell him you can't make a game this ambitious?

Neo_God · Mar 2006

Nothing wrong with being ambitious! Just as long as you pull it off, and unlike Peter Molyneux, Wright delivers! Haha.

Hedhunta · Mar 2006

yeah, i dont know how theyd control that kind of thing.. but it would be alot of fun if the possibility were there for intergalactic war.. maybe theyd make it so you cant be attacked until you are at a certain technological level? i dont know.. but the game looks awesome

KDR_11k · Mar 2006

Hm, it looks like you can't redesign the UFO...

Valandar · Mar 2006

Actually, he specifically stated you COULD, and that he just used a 'default' UFO.

KDR_11k · Mar 2006

I didn't understand most of what he said, I can't understand spoken English well if there's any noise or low sound quality involved...

Moz · Mar 2006

especially when 50% of the dialog is "UM" "ERRR" "UM"

Hedhunta · Mar 2006

lol you try explaining how being god works in laymans terms :-P

MoP · Mar 2006

Start the game up and scream "I CAN DO ANYTHING!!!!!".

KDR_11k · Mar 2006

People would mistake you for Peter Molyneaux in that case.

Cthogua · Mar 2006

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Hehehe I tried showing the demo to my girlfriend and she liked it but 10 minutes in she was like...If he says "um" one more time..and the Um's continued. Its funny how sometimes you don't notice something like that until someone points it out. The first time I watched it I was so excited about all the gameplay (I was a Sim-fiend as a kid..I had em all Sim Earth, Sim Life, Sim Ant, Sim City...probably responsible for my current life science and systems obsession. ) Anyway I didn't notice all the ums till Sara pointed them out...after that it was just rediculous

rooster · Mar 2006

to be fair he is a game designer not a PR man

. I'd be a little suspicious if he was super slick!

Kytos · Mar 2006

I'm...um... super excited about this.

ebagg · Mar 2006

And now I know why there are no tripod animals on the earth...I enjoyed SimLife well over a decade ago, this might be fun!

CheapAlert · Mar 2006

I just realized the battle music is exactly the battle theme from the original Star Trek. Placeholder I guess..

Ninjas · Mar 2006

Man, after watching this last year I just about crapped my pants. I think this is the future of user created content -- having all the tools built in, as part of the game.

ElysiumGX · Mar 2006

You should try Second Life.

hawken · Mar 2006

I hope this sort of tech makes it into games with stories.

Spore demonstration.

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