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Pierson's Puppeteer

After a bit more playing with Spore, I've created this:

(Based on the image here)

posted by benjymous @ 26/06/08 13:03 | Comments(comment: 1) | [ tags ]

A bit of a play with the Spore Creature Creator

So, after lots of waiting, the demo of the Spore Creature Creator is finally here (giving us a glimpse of what the full game will offer.)
After much cursing SecuRom refusing to start the game (why does a free demo need to have an evil copy protection system included, anyway?) I eventually tracked down the problems to it considering Process Explorer to be a hacking tool!! Sigh.

Anyway, here are a couple of oddballs I created after a few minutes of playing:


Grapefruitisaur and offspring. Bless him, he'll grow into that eye.


Wheelbarrowica's sensitive eyes are high up out of harm's reach.

Now just got to wait till September for the full game!

posted by benjymous @ 17/06/08 13:05 | Comments(comment: none) | [ tags ]

More spore info

So E3 has come and passed, and a bit more info about Spore has been released.
There's a few better quality screenshots on IGN
An hour long video of the presentation about Spore he gave in March over at GDCTV. (free registration required, but it's well worth watching)
And Gaming Steve has the first part of an interview with Will Wright here.

I really can't wait to get my hands on this game!

posted by benjymous @ 27/05/05 13:25 | Comments(comment: 4) | [ tags ]

Spore

A Colleague at work sent me this link about the latest game Will Wright (Creator of The Sims, Sim City and many others) is working on - Spore.

The basic premise seems to be that you start as a single celled organism, and evolve your way up to a space-faring conqueror of the whole galaxy.

There are screenshots of the demo he gave here. All I can say is that I can't wait to see this in action... this is the kind of game that I've always enjoyed playing, so I hope it lives up to expectations...

Anyway, 28 days till E3...

posted by benjymous @ 19/04/05 15:58 | Comments(comment: 4) | [ tags ]