Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

[@davidkonevky7372]

I have to thank this dude for giving me the interest on becoming an architect. As he said, he made the tools, we made the game. I personally made the game by building, as I found it interesting and fun, and that feeling will be stuck in me forever

[@willwrightcreatorofsims9813]

All hail Will Wright, Creater of The Sims. May he live in peace and security, free from the ruthless tyranny of Electronic Arts.

[@CringePotato]

I wonder if Will has an old version of the game on a flash drive or something and he is waiting to release it...

[@yourladbrennen3130]

that would be the greatest thing ever...

[@arbiteras]

spore had so much potential,it could have been the ultimate science evolution game,but EA ruined everything with Chris Hecker and their stupid mass appeal

[@AdobadoFantastico]

arbiteras lol, what does he have to do with it? All he worked on was the animation systems.

[@arbiteras]

he was the one suggesting that Spore was too science centered,and of course,EA listened to him and "convinced" Will Wright to dumb down the game to extreme standards 'cause the more the game is dumbed down=wider appeal=more money

[@AdobadoFantastico]

Really? He usually talks in favor of games with depth. I'm pretty sure I've heard him point to the lack of depth as its core issue. Maybe since seeing the results of Spore is when he adopted that viewpoint.

[@LapisOverlord]

Clone Stormtrooper well that’s your opinion. I personally like science fiction more than science based games. Also, making it dumbed down makes the game have more possibilities because it’s not realistic.

[@benjis007]

that was a brilliant concept and presentation...I think he is really on to something. You have to teach kids without them realizing they are being taught.

[@danwopp2697]

ben fest 10 years old, are you still on youtube?

[@yourladbrennen3130]

it feels really weird looking at comments from a time before EA got their grubby hands on spore...

[@zazomy8629]

That's what you call Unconscious Learning

[@21siimon]

2019 here? It's 12 years old OMG!

[@Kae6502]

My Favorite quote: "... so far the entire game has been played on the surface of this little world here."

[@TigerBears11]

I’m Will Wright, and these are me beautiful _spooores._

[@MyMelody694]

Will Wright: It is a virtual toy for young kids. PEGI: It ain't going to be for young kids, the parental rating is going to be 12, so take it or leave it.

[@badgerfrogfilms]

Rip this was my childhood i would come home from school and spend hours on it. Still do sometimes i wish there was another one

[@hemoglobin12345]

Will Wright's presentations never cease to amaze

[@armywbngtn]

watching this in 2023. This dude is a genius. Thank you so much for sims

[@-catlove64-]

I really love spore it's so beautiful it makes me cry thank you

[@the_awe]

he is so creative; the game is a brilliant idea.

[@alekseyabramov9259]

i love this guy! His games are my favorites!

[@KangaGamer]

my most favorite game still is spore

[@hellz23456]

lmao me to even i am 24 yo

[@radiacthryhumm5688]

best game ever ;D , sadly it's been forgotten by many people... :(

[@SaltyGamingHDD]

Unidentified species So true. My favorite game of all time

[@Maginum]

Radiacthry Humm nope peorple continue playing spore today publishing million of creatures!

[@animationspace8550]

It isn't forgotten, we just left. The game is amazing, but it could've been so much more. It isn't will's fault, it's EA's fault. Them with mass appeal. It hurts.

[@ethantallent2691]

beautiful spores

[@danitiwa]

Step into my mind Justin

[@NuclearFall404]

Do you want to see my beautiful spooooores?

[@xoantwist2]

Imagine creating subtitles for a video, only for the time setter to mess it up which you couldnt do anything about. I hate my life

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Game ended up being a bit crappy and EA ruined it with the MAJOR draconian DRM which was ironically cracked before it was even released. So the only people it annoyed were the people actually paying for the game.

[@2GDV]

Kinda funny to see how this version looks better than the final version. This is the spore most fans actually wanted, even knowing the final version cool, the original idea Will wanted for the game was cleary greater.

[@rolandorodriguez9625]

I wonder if Will Wright is an alien who came to guide mankind. Either way we need a new spore game with more realistic graphics. That would be awesome!

[@espurresso]

will seems like a genuinely fun guy

[@JohnMallah]

Genius. I still remember my 1st world and crawling up on the beach.

[@SClarkeOhlendorf]

LOVE this game--such a great idea and my nieces and nephews love it too!

[@0YtsanBlowout0]

That makes total sence, it just hit me that its no wonder they didnt make any ordinary guardian, but a cyborg race guarding the heart of the spore galaxy...

[@LddStyx]

A few years before Spore was anounced I had discovered this fairly old game called E.V.O. and I dreamt about how I would be the one in on the making of the next-best-thing. Curse you Will! Now the best I could get would be some minor role in its numerous sequels.

[@AltairBlue]

E.V.O is a gem that needs a remake

[@Blankname101]

I known about this game for months and still waiting for it..This game is tight!!

[@cameroncroone7216]

please bring this back maybe as #2 or a spinoff it could be called spore evolution

[@Quinnandfriends1]

Look up Thrive, sounds like what you're looking for

[@danwopp2697]

Peashooter The Frick well EA is a bad idea to invest in, spore wouldn't need expansion packs if it was on it's own with the company maxes

[@WarzSchoolchild]

These fantastic games have an added benefit, they advance computer technology itself. The games require faster processors, more memory etc. The 'need' drives the 'supply'. It makes economic sense, as a mass market drives down production costs. Everyone benefits. Bravo!

[@KurNorock]

I need this game. I NEED this game.

[@catrosalina4948]

Did you get it?

[@KurNorock]

@@catrosalina4948 Blast from the past huh? I actually didn't get the game. I did get the creature creator portion of the game and messed around with it for a few days, but never the full game.

[@catrosalina4948]

@@KurNorock why

[@KurNorock]

@@catrosalina4948 I don't really remember. I think the game was hyped up to be a lot more than it turned out to be and I was disappointed with the final product.

[@catrosalina4948]

@@KurNorock I've gotta agree with you there. A lot was cut from the game in development. I still recommend checking out the game, its good for what it is.

[@ravenstar1397]

brings back memories

[@AcidRain64]

SPORE! Can't wait, looks so cool! Seems like the kind of fun that can be enjoyed by literally all ages. :-D

[@ravenstar1397]

I doubt you own this account anymore, but look whre this went

[@AltairBlue]

@@ravenstar1397 pain

[@tyleredwards5643]

@@ravenstar1397 yeah, it ended up being a great game. Just because EA owns it doesn’t mean it’s automatically bad.

[@ryanlimes1499]

Will Wright looks like the late Jeff Porcaro, drummer from the rock band Toto.

[@jasonsoliva6678]

Super awkward to watch spore animals mate to jazz music in a public setting.

That's the attitude that made you what you are today.

[@Disthron]

Anyone know if they ended up taking the malware out of this game? I always wanted to try it out but was afraid to install it on my PC because of the crippling DRM.

[@MattGiuca]

They just released it on GOG.com a few weeks ago with no DRM. (I waited 8 years and finally am playing it.)

[@VoxelKing]

Um, they removed like 2 entire stages, and removed several features from the stages currently existing, especially the space stage, and the only way to get only some of those features back, which are only for the space stage, is by buying the Expansion Packs. And the new aesthetic differences are like the only positive change to this game. Are you sure that you're not the ignorant one?

[@danwopp2697]

ThatNasirKid Have you heard of EA? Are you that arrognet to ignore the fact that EA is a company that ruines games including spore, have you even bothered to see the pre alpha gameplay of classic spore before spewing nonsense?

[@LapisOverlord]

ThatNasirKid yes he’s sure because you don’t know how to reply

[@LapisOverlord]

Dan Wopp also EA did mass appeal not ruin it. Which means more people like it. Majority rules

[@G89211]

They weren't removed, ea rushed the game then got rid of maxis before they could actually fully implement them into the game. Another case of ea being worse than the devil

[@berkaybarlas]

Way way beyond its time

[@LoverDino]

What year was this?

[@MyMelody694]

2007.

[@smellyfishstiks]

f in chat spore, never forggetti

[@beanio12]

Will Wright surely is a genius!

[@KRG30001]

Spore 2 please god

[@CURIOUS0111]

Wow! what a fun game! I hope they market it soon!

[@WarzSchoolchild]

Great comment 'harshvgaus', that is the halmark of good software. I don't want to return to the 1970's, but in those days, every little 'bit' counted. Computers were predominately for accountants and mathematicians. I am sure that "Games" have done more to advance hardware, than any other factor other than national defence procurement.

[@TRRProductions09]

@LamaPaj Because he's Will Wright.

[@joemanYT]

WILL WRIGHT IS AWESOME!

[@Access.Denied]

that moment when you first zoom out of your solar system only to realize you can zoom out even farther up to the point where you see the entirety of your galaxy.

[@GregoryFesto]

OMG!!! this is so cool. can i be one of your playtesters??!?!??! i would love to play this game.

[@Skyler827]

It's not very realistic. This demo is from awhile ago, the final version is out now. You don't get penalized for bad animal design, it doesn't matter how any of your creations look. For animals, however, the parts you give them will impact their abilities, but that's about it.

[@ArtseyGurl]

"I forgot to put any fun in my game" - Will Wright

[@Flamingbannas]

Hmm I'm curious as someone who does not share the same opinion, what would you have like to have seen implemented into the gameplay?

[@wheatley7612]

Thats ea did, not him.

[@TRRProductions09]

@rosicky7rocks to get to the core, just blast your way through as quick as you can. And you can destroy the Grox, it just takes forever.

[@gemini171]

This game is going to be fun and addictive for sure, but we have a long way to go before we develop a game that perfectly balances education with entertainment.

[@smnk3]

wtf... advert at the end...??

[@celshader]

Games like this will help people understand and accept evolution and planet/star system formation.

[@jonnyeh]

The greenhouse gases in Venus' atmosphere have turned it into a giant oven where no life is possible. It's possible.

[@KRG30001]

The greatest game of all time

[@glue105]

Very true, Brilliant.

[@Creed329]

in modern gaming full of repetitive sellouts, dare to be a will wright

[@mrbean5317]

He used cheat codes at 9:11!

[@starshield122]

he has a diffrent verstion of spore

[@kaare1992]

I wonder what Will is up to these days. Hopefully he is not in EA's shithole, having more games ruined by them. RIP Maxis

[@h0rseradish51]

I'm probably about two months late with the answer, but... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ_bnaOrZrpno80

[@gemini171]

This is the major problem with using games for educational purposes:In order to create "empathy" you give the player extensive control over the design of the creature. But that will just reinforce implicit beliefs in intelligent design, not challenge them. This would be a bad tool for teaching evolutionary principles.

[@6littleMERMAIDS]

I want spore

[@egbert6108]

"It is so hard for _us_ to think fifty, a hundred or a thousand years out" :D

[@regulc]

ele criou o spore

[@lordmetroid]

Hey that's what I still do...

[@GMota931]

MELHOR HOMEM EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

[@regulc]

VC é brasileiro

[@nosson77]

i think something like this could be used for real life problems like global warming

[@gemini171]

An accurate depiction of evolution wouldn't be fun at all, in fact it wouldn't even be a game. It would be a computer simulation where you would be able to watch an unguided process taking place, so that kids could really see how complex molecular machines like the ATP mechanism could evolve through random mutation.

[@danitiwa]

I'd like to show you Me beautiful spoores

[@ВероникаТелешева-и9ь]

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[@ImtheHitcher]

games like this do not help creativity, rather they let those without any believe they have

[@narutofreak1012]

That's cause hes going into early retirement :P hes so rich now he prob could:P

[@KoriKoriTeddy]

This had so much potential, but it was completely wasted, disappointing.

[@dueiu3383j]

Just you wait, until EA puts its hands on it and destroys it

[@games5522]

Spore.

[@anarcoperonista2076]

un capo

[@sucramnormark]

What the hell is he wearing?

[@ME-ob6cl]

spore is one of my favaurite games and would be way better if EA didnt ruin it with their stupid mass apeal

[@LapisOverlord]

ME that’s your opinion. There’s a lot more possibilities with mass appeal. Also with mass appeal, that means more people like the game and majority rules.

[@NanashiCAST]

Spore, Good idea. Shit design and shit gameplay. What a shame.

[@danwopp2697]

Blame ea not the creator

[@Lord0Delete]

lol!

[@SitWithItBob]

Sploogersmoof...noone else mentioned god but you. Noone mentioned anything to do with your message. Anyway, I agree with gemini171. When you examine the way Mr. Wright uses the creature creation, it seems to enforce ID beliefs. However, it's just a game and I don't personally feel anybody is going to take any truth to it. I disagree with Mr. Wright's idea that anybody will really learn from this game.

[@UnicornFairy0]

he does not look good in a sleevless shirt.. not.. at all O_o

[@Areyourealythatdumb]

and a sellout.

[@azzanine1710]

So much disappoint... Like all games Will Wright has a hand in.