How modable will Spore be?

[Heraclitus]

Will has spent a lot of time talking about how free the player will be in creating new content, by this I mean new creatures and art with the in-game tools. I’m wondering how free will you be to change things beyond the scope of the tools?Let’s say I want to mod the civ phase to make it more like civ or if I want to mod the galactic age or whatever it’s called and expand diplomacy?


What if I want to improve the AI, will I be able to tweak it? (like Blake did with civ )

What about the interface and the graphics engine? Eg If I wanted the “new” cellular phase to be less cartoony and more like it was before or to give the game a more adult look (and god willing content)




And if mods are made, how will the massively online single player concept work with them? I mean your computer cant upload a sentient flying creature that you created with a “smart birds” mod to a vanilla spore computer. Will you be stuck with playing the original CD/DVD contetnt? Will you be able to share content with other people with your mod?

[lord of the mark]

good idea - i think folks here, and others like us, will want Spore to be more serious in the later, post creature stages, and will have lots of good ideas for doing so.

[FrostyBoy]

From what I have read I HIGHLY doubt you will be able to mod the game past its original design. Meaning, you wouldnt be able to create a "Civilization" game using the tools provided.

The Crysis Sandbox2 Editor on the other hand....

[Adagio]

IIRC about a year ago I heard something about the game being modable, but don't remember if they mentioned how much you could mod. I doubt we'll see game changing mods though

If they do allow mods in the game, then they might make it something like this:
Player A installs mod 1, creates a create that gets uploaded
Player B has also installed that mod, but player C hasn't. Player C will not be able to find that create in his game, but player B will

Though that would require mods to be registered on the Spore servers I guess
Or maybe they just disable the ability to upload creates if you have a mod installed

[Heraclitus]

So is the game modable?

[Dale]

NFI

[FrostyBoy]

In summary...

I was right.