Spore Is EA's New Ace

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 14, 2006 @05:48AM from the less-soul-sucking dept.

BusinessWeek reports on EA's Next Big Thing. From the article: "EA is stumbling, and a big part of its time-tested strategy is about to change. The company hopes that its next mega-franchise will revolve not around a football star, a boy wizard, or a dashing British spy, but...a microbe. The game is called Spore. Developed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, it lets players design an invertebrate in its primordial stages and then guide its evolution until the creature's offspring develop into a thriving civilization with cities, religion, and spaceships. EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."

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obl. gary larson by pimpimpim · 2006-03-14 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Reminds me of a "far side" cartoon: Movie Concepts Walt Disney Never Brought to Cinema:
"Bert the adventurous amoebe"
"Andy the sandworm"
etc :)

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1. Re:obl. gary larson by clem · 2006-03-14 06:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So until next time, "Adios, Amoebos!"
  
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Spore's orginal name was: by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-14 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Billy and the Intelligent Design workshop.

They had to tone it down a little.
Intelligent Design Simulator by withears · 2006-03-14 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Conservatives feel that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into the Intelligent Design movement.
1. Re:Intelligent Design Simulator by shelterpaw · 2006-03-14 06:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Conservatives feel that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into the Intelligent Design movement.
  
  Liberals hope that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into bi-transsexual organisms with no morals or values. :P
Cheat codes? by dr_dank · 2006-03-14 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I wonder if Spore will have an Intelligent Design cheat code that would skip you right to homosapien and win the game.

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Outragous! I must protest! by jandrese · 2006-03-14 05:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Hmm, this game sounds like Evolutionay propaganda to me. I demand that the game include a "truth" mode where your civilization simply appears as fully developed humans (minus one rib in the male model) and goes from there. :)

Actually, that would be a clever little joke on the creator's part. Perhaps include a "-dogma" commandline switch that does just that. If they really wanted to get some reactionary types mad, they could even include various modes for all of the crazy creation myths from various world religions.

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Re:Spore video by johneee · 2006-03-14 06:02 · Score: 5, Funny

My wife saw that video, turned to me and said, "we're getting this game, right?"

I'll give her this, when I told her it would cost us somewhere in the region of $2000 she actually had to consider it for a full second and a half before she said ok.

So, I'll get a new computer, but I won't be able to use it for six months, and I won't actually see my wife for that time either... Thanks Will Wright.

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Re:GTA model by sehryan · 2006-03-14 06:39 · Score: 4, Funny

"Or is it Intelligent Design? I can't really tell."

I guess it depends on who is playing it.

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Re:GTA model by yppiz · 2006-03-14 10:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Just wait until someone discovers the Hot Chordate mod.

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