Will Wright and Spore Profiled in Popular Science

Via Joystiq, an enthusiastic interview in Popular Science with Will Wright. He talks about his much anticipated PC title Spore (still slated to ship later this year), the educational qualities of games, socializing via games, and the future of gaming. One of his closing comments: "Getting people more connected to the real world through gaming. Because I think we all live in our own little bubbles, we have our own little lives and there's this whole world out there of things happening that we're kind of dimly aware of. We might pick up the paper or watch the news. And it's a complex world. A lot of very strange twisted dynamics, interesting things, very important things that are going to shape the future that our children live in. And that if you could just get everybody to be a little bit more aware of the world around them, and how it works, and have that feedback in to the course the world is taking, gaming could be an incredibly powerful mechanism for steering the system."

Comments

Thunderous disappointment

[jandrese]

Man, when Spore comes out and turns out to have boring sucky gameplay (see: Black and White), all of this hype is going to be embarrassing.

Ok, I have no idea if the gameplay is going to be good or not, but certainly it can't be as good as all of the hype it has been getting. I was as excited as anyone at the demo he gave at E3, but until we have something resembling a beta to play around with I'm going to file this under "pre-release over hyping" and get on with my life. It will have a nice cozy location between Daikatana and the Segway.