Spore went gold

September 7 will be the official release of the long-awaited game Spore . The other day, the publisher officially announced that the game was sent to "gold", that is, right now the punching of discs is starting, which will be packed and sent to stores.

Spore is a god simulator that Maxis, Electronics Arts, and the author of the idea, Will Wright (the creator of The Sims and SimCity) have been working on for several years. The idea is so conceptual and ambitious that the project can actually revolutionize the field of computer games. We haven't seen anything like this before.

Spore is a universal simulator of life, civilization and the whole universe. The player will begin to play a small microorganism (and according to some information, organic molecules) in the depths of the ocean. The first 20 million years pass fairly quickly. Then begins the creation of the external appearance of the organism. The breeding method, the number of eyes and other parameters will have a critical impact on the further development of civilization. In the end, the player has at its disposal a populated universe. According to Will Wright, the game will literally be a “simulator of everything.”
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"The dispute" comes out a year late. During this time, the features of a multiplayer game were being finalized (see the interview with Will Wright ). However, apparently, we will not see a huge Universe - the world of "Disputes" - in which unique civilizations will trade, negotiate and fight with each other (they plan to do this in the future). Now the game will have only the so-called "asynchronous" multiplayer mode.

Under the "asynchronous" mode refers to online Spopopedia , where each player can publish information about their civilization, with photos and videos. Since the tools for creating animals came out before the game itself, Sporopedia already now contains more than 2.6 million articles on living creatures of various kinds.

Above the design of the appearance of creatures, as well as other elements of the game can work professional designers, which opens up a wide field for commercial activities. To date, according to Wright, there are already several people who have earned more than $ 250,000 from this.