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Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-thought-it-was-crack dept.

imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming."

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  1. Well, no by ucblockhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given that I've only seen videos of someone else playing "Spore", I have to say, no, I don't wonder how it works. I wonder when the hell it'll be done.

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    1. Re:Well, no by zn0k · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder when the hell it'll be done. $ apt-cache showpkg spore
      Package: spore
      Versions:
      1.0
      Description Language:
      File: /var/lib/apt/lists/spore.maxis.com-i386_Packages
      MD5: b7b55c3327e373b0abee0ccb25902a2b
      Dependencies:
      1.0 - dukenukem3d
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  3. Re:Inifinite Creates? by advance512 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good god, you silly putties...

    Why do you bother typing in these comments? No one thinks you're any smarter now than they did before reading your message. If anything, they think you don't have a sense of humour.