Larry sent me a Google video link for a game called “Spore”. A short synopsis is as follows…
You begin the game as a small organism that lives in a drop of water. Much like a Pac-Man-esque game, you swim around a two dimensional board, eating food and dodging enemies. When you lay an egg, you can modify/evolve your creature, eventually getting to a larger creature swimming in an ocean. You continue to play the eating/dodging/egg laying game in the water, and eventually can leave the water and venture on to land. You continue along, being able to modify your creature. Eventually, you evolve their brain, and begin playing a Civilization-type game, fighting enemy tribes and making allies of others. From there, you create cities, attempting to control the planet. Once you control the planet, you can venture out into space, colonizing other worlds and meeting other sentient beings on other planets. The cool thing is that the beings on the other planets are based upon the worlds created by other players, and depending on how they have trained their civilization is how they will act when you reach them. It is not a simultaneous multi-player game, but you do get to interact with the civilizations of other players.
I’d really like to know more about this game, as it looks like plenty of fun.
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