Judhudson
08-11-2008, 07:20 AM
Eurogame is dishing out the goods with a celebration of Spore! They declared this week to be Spore Week (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211284) and will bring you special coverage of the game from a recent visit to the Maxis Studios. To keep things cleaned up, I’m going to post all of their information in this thread to make it easier for me to update, as well as easier on you to find the newest details!
Eurogame Spore Week: Monday
“I didn’t expect to hit hot buttons on the atheist side as much; I expected it on the religious side,” Wright revealed. “But so far I’ve had no critical feedback at all from anybody who is religious feeling that we were misrepresenting religion or it was bad to represent religion in the game. It was really the atheists.”
Most criticism of religion in Spore is from “militant atheists”, claims Wright News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211296)
Wright on the idea of a Spore MMO:
However, with the advances in technology featured in Spore, as well as the lesson learned from The Sims Online, Wright believes that turning his new IP into an MMO is certainly one option on the table, stating: “That’s not to say that one day we might not do a massively-multiplayer online version of it, but it’s just not the most interesting initial unveiling of it for me.”
Wright hints at Spore MMO News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211287)
What’s next for Will Wright?
“There are a lot of other projects waiting in the wings that I’ve been doing early research on that, when Spore ships, I’m going to sit back, take a deep breath, and look at these projects and consider which ones to dive into,” he told Eurogamer, in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview published today (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211273).
Wright has new projects “in the wings” News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211285)
As an added incentive to check it out, we’ve teamed up with Electronic Arts and Maxis as part of Eurogamer’s Spore Week (http://www.simprograms.com/wp-admin/LINK) to offer a very special prize to one lucky reader: the chance to have your favourite creature made into a real-life desktop model. As you can see from the photograph to the left, these hand-made models are a bit of a collector’s item - and they will be designed to match your creature’s specifications. They stand around 12 inches tall, although this depends on your creature, and will take EA’s arts and crafts department 3-4 weeks to produce and deliver. Just in time for the launch of the game, then - and you’ll also receive a copy of the Spore Galactic Edition (http://www.game.co.uk/PC/Strategy/Simulation/~r336104/Spore-Galactic-Edition-GAME-Exclusive/?s=spore).
Win a real-life model of your Spore creature! Competition (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211252)
Eurogamer: Do you believe in God?
Will Wright: I’d probably be best described as an atheist. I’m open to the idea that there is some creator somewhere. I can almost envision humans one day being able to create a micro-universe. That’s not to say we could ever interact with it, but it could be that the physics equations for a singularity are the same as for the Big Bang, which is that black holes in our universe could in fact be embedded universes that we will never be able to contact or get information from.
But if I can imagine that humans might one day have that power to create these universes, there’s no reason why some other intelligence above us created ours. That’s not to say that was the original designer, or the designer at all - maybe it was just an accident.
So at that level I’m open to the idea that our universe was created; but probably there’s not a guy with a long white beard looking at everything we do, just personally those are my beliefs. [With Spore] we didn’t want to go too far down that path: we leave the whole creation of the universe question open. Obviously as the player you’re coming in and playing something like a god, directing the evolution of a species, but we never really state who you the player are.
Interview with Will Wright (video & transcript) (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211273)
Eurogame Spore Week: Monday
“I didn’t expect to hit hot buttons on the atheist side as much; I expected it on the religious side,” Wright revealed. “But so far I’ve had no critical feedback at all from anybody who is religious feeling that we were misrepresenting religion or it was bad to represent religion in the game. It was really the atheists.”
Most criticism of religion in Spore is from “militant atheists”, claims Wright News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211296)
Wright on the idea of a Spore MMO:
However, with the advances in technology featured in Spore, as well as the lesson learned from The Sims Online, Wright believes that turning his new IP into an MMO is certainly one option on the table, stating: “That’s not to say that one day we might not do a massively-multiplayer online version of it, but it’s just not the most interesting initial unveiling of it for me.”
Wright hints at Spore MMO News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211287)
What’s next for Will Wright?
“There are a lot of other projects waiting in the wings that I’ve been doing early research on that, when Spore ships, I’m going to sit back, take a deep breath, and look at these projects and consider which ones to dive into,” he told Eurogamer, in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview published today (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211273).
Wright has new projects “in the wings” News (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211285)
As an added incentive to check it out, we’ve teamed up with Electronic Arts and Maxis as part of Eurogamer’s Spore Week (http://www.simprograms.com/wp-admin/LINK) to offer a very special prize to one lucky reader: the chance to have your favourite creature made into a real-life desktop model. As you can see from the photograph to the left, these hand-made models are a bit of a collector’s item - and they will be designed to match your creature’s specifications. They stand around 12 inches tall, although this depends on your creature, and will take EA’s arts and crafts department 3-4 weeks to produce and deliver. Just in time for the launch of the game, then - and you’ll also receive a copy of the Spore Galactic Edition (http://www.game.co.uk/PC/Strategy/Simulation/~r336104/Spore-Galactic-Edition-GAME-Exclusive/?s=spore).
Win a real-life model of your Spore creature! Competition (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211252)
Eurogamer: Do you believe in God?
Will Wright: I’d probably be best described as an atheist. I’m open to the idea that there is some creator somewhere. I can almost envision humans one day being able to create a micro-universe. That’s not to say we could ever interact with it, but it could be that the physics equations for a singularity are the same as for the Big Bang, which is that black holes in our universe could in fact be embedded universes that we will never be able to contact or get information from.
But if I can imagine that humans might one day have that power to create these universes, there’s no reason why some other intelligence above us created ours. That’s not to say that was the original designer, or the designer at all - maybe it was just an accident.
So at that level I’m open to the idea that our universe was created; but probably there’s not a guy with a long white beard looking at everything we do, just personally those are my beliefs. [With Spore] we didn’t want to go too far down that path: we leave the whole creation of the universe question open. Obviously as the player you’re coming in and playing something like a god, directing the evolution of a species, but we never really state who you the player are.
Interview with Will Wright (video & transcript) (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211273)