Will Wright speaks!

[lord of the mark]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/f1a18906612a0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Interesting stuff on Spore as a "single player MMO game" vs conventional MMO's, goals and competition (which Spore will have, after a fashion) games as educational tools, PC's vs Consoles, the benefits of the Wii, etc, etc.

[Kuciwalker]

Interesting. And he mentions my school

[Bkeela]

I'm going to keep it strictly single player. There is no way I'm going to infect my game with the lame creations of others.

[LordShiva]

Will9 > Will Wright

[Dis]

what's a single player mmo game?

[Harovan]

Spore is going to be a very interesting game and I'm really looking forward to it with sympathy.

[RGBVideo]

my opinion is attached

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dis
what's a single player mmo game?

evidently its a game where you import lots of "stuff" from pals over the interweb, and form communities with them relating to your game, and all, but when you actually play the game, you could be offline.

Oddly, that sounds like the way some of us played Civ2 (with mods, scenarios, exchanging strats, doing challenges, etc) but evidently "The Sims" is more community intensive than that, and the idea is that Spore will be even more so.

apparently as you build up from critter to tribe to civ, you will create a world on your planet. Then you go online, and DL all the worlds everyone else created, and thats the galaxy. Then you play basically a single player space strategy game, but all the planets are worlds that different folks have created while playing the critter-tribe-civ games.

[DrSpike]

It wont surprise many that my view is that whilst this is conceptually interesting it will make for a ****e game.

I see nothing in this interview to change either part of that.

[lord of the mark]

The general difficulty of making a good game that combines several different genres? Yup, thats a hard one, but Im eager to see if Wright can do it.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Will9 > Will Wright

Die

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
The general difficulty of making a good game that combines several different genres? Yup, thats a hard one, but Im eager to see if Wright can do it.

Well that too, but it's more about the lack of an actual game.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Well that too, but it's more about the lack of an actual game.

The first few levels will be "toys" with goals - the first will be evolving a creature, the second tribal game need not be that different from an RTS (think the opening of the first Age of Empires) and the civ level game could be, you know, civ like. Both the second and third resolve themselves to software toys if you play at an easy enough level. Some would say its silly to treat them as "games" in SP anyway, without artificial challenges, and such challenges Wright promises to provide. Something like building your civ to some given size or ability to Interplanetary travel by some date, which you can compare with your pals (Gee, how different is that from "I launched by 1500" that used to fill the Civ forums here?) then its a straight interplanetary 4x, I imagine. Moo, done right.

[DrSpike]

Your incessant optimism warms my heart. But I still think the game will stink. Probably sell a lot of copies though - that Will Wright is a smart chap.

[Bosh]

Even if the game stinks, I'll buy it just to muck around with the critter designing thingie.