I've learned of this game.

[Ganonfro]

Why did none of you find it first? Either way, I share.

It's a game, which basically lets you PLAY THROUGH EVOLUTION.

More later.
LUNK

[Choark]

I did.

Where were you!?

... though honestly as I hadn't internet connection at home at the time the question is actually...

Where was I?

Edit: And a little bit more meaniful...

... This is actually a PC I might consider looking into <p><div style="text-align:center"> </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-family:century gothic;font-size:x-small;">HEROES DON'T NEED PANTS</span> </div></p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=choark>Choark</A]&nbsp; at: 3/6/06 17:59

[Groxley Grunk]

I've heard of this before, but the video has got me really excited about what is actually possible.

However, the online aspect of it has me wondering how the 'other people' factor is gonna ruin it.

[Spleen]

All the twinks will stop at T-Rex and just kill everyone, probably. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Ganonfro]

Yes, but whole forums could make their own solar systems and such, is what I was thinking of. It'd be hilarious to watch, either way.

[Capntastic]

I don't know why no one making a post about a game = nobody knowing it exists. I figured almost everyone here was capable of checking the internet for new releases. Either way, I plan on playing this game someday, as it is very rad looking.

[ikozaedro]

the level of creative freedom in this game is awesome.
don't kill for saying this, but i bet the're will be like a million of players making furry characters for this game.
i mean, if you can make a care bear, you might as well make other humanoid animals/stuff.

for me, can't wait to make some of my creatures for it. <p><div style="text-align:center"> <span style="color:fuchsia;font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:large;">LAMBO SWIMS LIKE A BRICK!!</span>

my deviant art thingy!
quote:
"Angels sung out, an immaculate chorus, down form the heaven descended Chuck Norris"
- Lemon Demon, "the ultimate showdon of ultimate destiny"</div>
</p>

[Ganonfro]

Zero is obviously unfamiliar with the fact that all life revolves around me. It's ok. I can't fault you for it.

But then again, he might not be familiar with sarcasm either.

[Archmage144]

Quote:

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However, the online aspect of it has me wondering how the 'other people' factor is gonna ruin it.

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Quoted from Wikipedia:

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Wright calls the game a "massively single player online game". Simultaneous multiplayer gaming is not a feature of Spore. The creatures, vehicles, and buildings the player can create will be uploaded automatically to a central database (or a peer-to-peer system), catalogued and rated for quality (based on how many users have downloaded the object or creature in question), and then re-distributed to populate other player's games. The data transmitted will be extremely small, only 1 kilobyte according to Wright. (Think of it as sharing the DNA template of a creature while the game builds the animal itself, which represents a few megabytes of texturing, animation, etc.) When the player progresses to a new stage, Spore will import creatures as needed. For example, if a flying carnivore is needed to balance the ecosystem, a creature that fits that description will be downloaded. The editor also allows the player to design things ranging from species to custom buildings and vehicles. That includes tanks, aircraft, submarines, boats, and UFOs. If the player has no internet connection, Wright mentioned, it is possible to fit tens of thousands of objects and creatures on the game's disc itself, due to their small size. This means that people with no Internet connection should still have a balanced ecosystem, even if it happens to be far more limited in diversity.

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In other words, other people can't ruin it, because it's not really an online game--you can't affect other people's game experience negatively in any way, only create awesome things that might get incorporated into the "collective world."

Additionally, since it's a "creative software toy simulation game" there's no wrong way to play it, so the prospect of creating a T-rex to eat the world is pretty entertaining. Though I imagine it would be more awesome to get to the UFO endgame stage and play god with all the poor little creatures. Depending on how detailed the game can get, it'd be fun to, for example, guide some analogous race to the Egyptians to build the pyramids. :D <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center"></div>

</p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=archmage144>Archmage144</A]&nbsp; at: 3/6/06 22:00

[Besyanteo]

Hell yeah I'd like this game. It's.... wow. Wow.

I can't see myself being afraid of other peoples creations for this. If I honestly find something so uber that it's a threat to my world because I discovered it, I'll just put a little spin on what the designer was sayying:

Pick one of their people up, fly off, and recombine DNA. Now I can make a small army of people with their characteristics, and set those people against them. Or just blow them up. Since it's all asynchronous, no one's going to start greifing you because their angry civilization tried to blow yours up and you dealt with it; Near as I can tell, foriegn content doesn't become a problem until you allow it to be.

... Also: Am I the only one who would be tempted to blow up their own world, for shits and giggles? <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[Capntastic]

I can't wait to mess with all of the editors.

[E Mouse]

The words 'massive single player online game' make me swoon. <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[Capntastic]

I hope you can specifically request stuff to import. I'd wanna make Spleen's dudes and my dudes fight eternally to the death on a forever darkened moon on the farthest ends of the universe.

[Spleen]

Well, Brian's quote did mention that ratings will be based on times downloaded, which should mean that you and I will be free to download each other's races.

I will be attempting to create something as close to the Protoss (at least physically) as possible. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Jak Snide]

Somebody's horrible creation is going to get a good orking.

[Zemyla]

I know what my creation is going to be.

Also, Spleen: How do you expect your people to eat peanut brittle without mouths? <p>-----
Do not taunt Happy Fun Zemyla.

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">I think boobs are the lesser of two evils. - Inverse (Pervy)
Dammit, Dan, I'm not dating a damn NPC! - OOC Will (Will Baseton)
Of course! Anything worth doing is worth doing completely wrong! - Travis English
Ultimately, wizards and clerics don't say, "Gee, I want to become a lich because weapons hurt less and I don't have to worry about being backstabbed; that whole 'eternal life' thing is just a fringe benefit."-Darklion
But this one time I killed a walrus with my bare hands, and I suddenly understood spherical coordinates. - KnightsofSquare
Also, when you've worked a 36-hour shift as an intern you too just might pour yourself a catful of coffee and sit down to cuddle with your travel mug. -eirehound
</span>

Adventurers! | RPG World World | The Phantom Lord's OT Board mkII | Indie Madnesse | Brotherhood of Elitist Bastards</p>

[Spleen]

I was thinking about precisely that today.

I'll have to hide the mouth, is what I'm thinking. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=spleeninfinity13>SpleenInfinity13</A]&nbsp; at: 3/7/06 14:47

[Besyanteo]

Mouth hands! <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[BrainWalker]

I've been looking forward to that game for quite a while now. It looks fantastically entertaining, and I expect to spend many a long hours just screwing around with various editors. <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[PriamNevhausten]

Spleen: Protoss are obviously either osmosis-eaters, or perhaps plankton feeders. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[Spleen]

This is entirely possible.

I dunno if that's gonna be an option, though. That's why I'm not even considering that they'll let me have them feed off the psionic emanations of other organisms like the real Protoss. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Besyanteo]

Now there's a thought. A carnivourous osmosis eatter at a larger size.

"Aww... He's hugging me. ... You can let go now. Please? Hey, my skin tingles..." <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[Shiranai]

This game shall henceforth be known as Sim Genesis. Because it's a Will Wright game, my conscience wouldn't stand for it not being a sim. <p><div style="text-align:center"><hr /></div></p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=priamnevhausten>PriamNevhausten</A]&nbsp; at: 3/18/06 17:03

[Capntastic]

He was going to call it Sim Everything, but decided against it. I feel it best to honor his wishes.

[ikozaedro]

spore sounds cool, but sim everything is just so much fun to say. <p><div style="text-align:center"> <span style="color:fuchsia;font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:large;">LAMBO SWIMS LIKE A BRICK!!</span>

my deviant art thingy!
quote:
"Angels sung out, an immaculate chorus, down form the heaven descended Chuck Norris"
- Lemon Demon, "the ultimate showdon of ultimate destiny"</div>
</p>

[Spleen]

Having just played through EVO: Search for Eden again has made me really want to play Spore. Perhaps I can recreate Ultra Rhino. Or Jesus the Amphibian. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[PriamNevhausten]

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[Jak Snide]

Priam wins the thread.

[Spleen]

Jak makes an intelligent observation. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Capntastic]

Spleen's got sight of the big picture.

[Seethe347]

Zero has the right of it.

[E Mouse]

But Seethe can just go to hell. <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[Spleen]

Too bad Mus couldn't find the exit that leads there. <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[E Mouse]

On the other hand, Spleen has, after an unfortunate incident involving a 17-ton weight and thirteen donkeys. <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=emouse>E]&nbsp; at: 3/19/06 2:15

[Seethe347]

That's a damn lie, and you know it!

[Spleen]

Uh...actually, Seethe...not really a lie...

Uh... <p>-_-___-___-___-_-

"The universe is all in the mind that perceives it, and sensation is the first and only reality. If a tree falls in the forest with no creature to hear it, then there is no tree."
-Dungeons and Dragons: Complete Arcane, page 167

Arch mage144: Spleen doesn't bother with penis size contests; instead, he goes straight to penis number.</p>

[Seethe347]

The correct grammar would have been "Ninny you case the is Seethe, not that."

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=priamnevhausten>PriamNevhausten</A]&nbsp; at: 3/20/06 2:47