Will Wright's awesome. So is Peter Molyneux, but Petey's awesome in a different way. (yeah, yeah, promised more than he could deliver with Fable) Wil Wright just really seems like that semi-geeky guy next door. Who happens to know an incredible amount about Care Bears. And then you find out he's incredibly geeky. Still, this guy knows entertainment. He built a game around managing cities when everyone else was designing games about keen commanders running along linear levels killing aliens. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
So, have you heard about Spore? Have you seen Spore?
Well, watch Spore.
(btw, this vid is 35 minutes long)
This is the full presentation. A little over 1 hour.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Will Wright sys "um" a lot.
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I have been waiting to see more on spore, from everything Ive read it seems like a very ambitious game. I love what's going on with the video game industry, with my generation who grew up with consoles in their homes (my first was the atari 2600), now at professional levels in their adult lives. Video games are no longer vice of degenerate kids, and will soon rival Hollywood...badass. I cant wait until I have more time on my hands to watch this presentation on spore.
At the end of the 1 hour presentation Will says that this idea was shelved as being "too ambitious" for a long time. He just couldn't figure out how to get it to work. The procedural techniques of this game is amazing. The meta game possibilities are enormous too, which is a big direction that these games are going.
It is games like this that prove that video games can aspire to the degrees of a true artform.
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