ManagerJosh
02-13-2008, 07:03 PM
Simmers know him. He's the legendary, famous, and well renown "Dr. Vu" or better know as Thomas Vu. I personally have been wondering what has he been up to, but now we know: Spore.
VideoGamer.com has sat down with Spore game producer Thomas Vu and he gave them a scoop on Spore.
Fair Use Excerpt:
VideoGamer.com: You've worked on The Sims 2, right, so you know that audience well?
TV: We try our best to do Spore in a way that will appeal to that audience but at the same time we understand that Spore is a different beast altogether. Sim City was different to The Sims and Spore is going to be different than The Sims. What we are building is based on creativity, sandbox gameplay, create what you want and watch it happen in the game, and then we have the sharing of content. On all of those fronts we've gone beyond what we've seen. The concepts are different but the underlying basis is still you're making this toy, this sandbox.
VideoGamer.com: Is there any pressure to deliver a hit in the same way The Sims was?
TV: There's always pressure. For me, ultimately, it's about am I making a game that I can be proud of. Is it a game I could play? For a lot of these guys, for EA and marketing, they're obviously, the more you sell the better! But for developers, us, we love to sell a lot, that's great, because it's popular, but at the same time we want to make sure we're proud of the game we make, we push the industry forward, we have other goals that are not just monetary.
Read the entire interview here (http://www.videogamer.com/pc/spore/preview-777.html).
VideoGamer.com has sat down with Spore game producer Thomas Vu and he gave them a scoop on Spore.
Fair Use Excerpt:
VideoGamer.com: You've worked on The Sims 2, right, so you know that audience well?
TV: We try our best to do Spore in a way that will appeal to that audience but at the same time we understand that Spore is a different beast altogether. Sim City was different to The Sims and Spore is going to be different than The Sims. What we are building is based on creativity, sandbox gameplay, create what you want and watch it happen in the game, and then we have the sharing of content. On all of those fronts we've gone beyond what we've seen. The concepts are different but the underlying basis is still you're making this toy, this sandbox.
VideoGamer.com: Is there any pressure to deliver a hit in the same way The Sims was?
TV: There's always pressure. For me, ultimately, it's about am I making a game that I can be proud of. Is it a game I could play? For a lot of these guys, for EA and marketing, they're obviously, the more you sell the better! But for developers, us, we love to sell a lot, that's great, because it's popular, but at the same time we want to make sure we're proud of the game we make, we push the industry forward, we have other goals that are not just monetary.
Read the entire interview here (http://www.videogamer.com/pc/spore/preview-777.html).