Wil Wright Spore and the Drake Equation

Wil Wright talks about design influences on Spore (from Seed magazine, which as far as I can tell gave me a one-year subscrtiption in hopes I'd renew): The science in Spore can be seen as the offspring of two seminal ideas: Powers of Ten , a 1977 documentary film by Ray and Charles Earnes that first showed viewers the zooming perspective of the universe described above, and the Drake Equation, a controversial attempt by the astrobiologist Frank Drake to quantify the prevalence of intelligence... read more

from liz@ml 11:05 Twitter just cleared out my following and follower lists! Aaargh. Re-adding everyone I can recall now. # 11:10 (But first, heading up to the Will Wright / Spore panel, the first CCI panel I'm reporting on. Whee!) # 22:32 On 6,000-mile-long line for fourth panel of the day. Laptop out of juice. Feeling marginally cranky. Last hour before we head to Clarion. # 00:28 Clarion was lovely! Geoff Ryman even showed up. Then I went to the G4 party and watched MC Lars...

What's spore? Only the newest and probably coolest game from sim god Will Wright. "With Spore

Holy god, this game. Maxis (and Will Wright) have been, are, and most likely will continue to be the gods of game development. What I'm actually raving about here is the limited version of the Spore Creature Creator. It was leaked early on Friday, I nabbed it Saturday and have been having stupid fun with it since. I -- like many others completely frothing at the mouth waiting for the full retail game -- slapped down tenbux for the unlimited Creature Creator which should hopefully be released on...

Spore is Will Wright's (Sim City, The Sims) new masterpiece. Spore starts a player out as a single-cell organism swimming around in a primordial soup. As Will Wright explains it, this stage of the game is essentially like Pac-Man, and you basically devour microbes smaller than you while avoiding those that are larger. You can upgrade your cell by adding cilia, flagella, and other defense mechanisms in order to gain any advantage possible for a single cell. From there you'll move on to the "water...

While listening to the Will Wright keynote at SXSW, I had a number of ideas. I'm jotting them down here in large part for my own edification: Courier - A cooperative game using devices (computers/phones) but coordinated via a web site, where the players take objects from one location to another via Bluetooth transfer. Teams able to move the "package" more quickly or with the fewest/most jumps would get more points. In addition, points might be awarded for meeting new people in order to facilitate...