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Speaking at EA's E3 press conference, Spore creator Will Wright announced that thanks to the release of Creature Creator, the number of player-created species in the game already exceeds the number of species on Earth.
Wright - proudly wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Save SETI at Arecibo" - announced that in the 18 days since it was released, Spore: Creature Creator players have crafted 1,756,869 species of creature. By contrast, our planet has less than 1.6 million species.
Wright allowed himself a joke at the expense of Creationism: allowing that God had created that many species in 7 days, he compared the figures with Spore players' achievement, and calculated that Spore fans were currently worth 38 per cent of God. He went on to estimate that players would be equivalent to 1 God by launch, and 3 Gods by the end of the year.
Wright said that player creativity had far exceeded developer Maxis' expectations. They hoped to have 100,000 species by the launch of the full game, and a million by 2009. In fact, they had 100,000 in 22 hours, and a million in a week.
He showed off players' most impressive creations to date, many of which Maxis' artists thought would not be possible, including fairly realistic animals and humans, robots, aeroplanes, and a Weighted Companion Cube.
Wright also promoted Spore's focus on science. He mentioned a National Geographic TV documentary that will be aired at the same time as the game's release, and an as-yet unannounced partnership with SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - something the legendary creator said he was personally excited about.
"Science is a really powerful brand that no other entertainment property is trying to grab," said Wright, after complaining that modern chemistry sets "are so nerfed that you could probably eat all the stuff and it wouldn't make you feel sick".
Amazing scenes. We love Will Wright, and we love Spore. If you don't believe us, check out Kieron's Creature Creator review.
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squarejawhero
15/07/08 @ 06:07
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/bought the creature creator
WHAT? I was ILL and it was a BAD DAY. It cheered me up. SO FARK YOU. /storms off |
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kinky_mong
15/07/08 @ 09:03
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What sort of tightwad can't spare a fiver for this?!
I pity any poor girl who ends up on a date with someone like disc. |
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gingerlink
15/07/08 @ 09:07
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companion cube?
this I gotta see :D Also, yeah, I thought there were more species than that. Maybe they're only counting vertebrae (as every creature in spore does actually have a backbone). |
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hiddenranbir
15/07/08 @ 09:25
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I bought it, didn't just want to make meat-eaters.
Stats are wrong though. Dumbarses. |
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gingerlink
15/07/08 @ 12:05
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from wikipedia :
Because of the difficulties with both defining and tallying the total numbers of different species in the world, it is estimated that there are anywhere between 2 and 100 million different species It's a ballpark figure, but it's still higher than what Mr Wright says. Back to my vertebrates point though (REMEMBER all creates in spore have a backbone, it's the start of the creation) there are only 58,000 species of these that exist in the world. Not many new ones are being discovered, so I reckon Mr Wright should stick to that. |
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Why all the hate? The Spore Creature Creator is one of the best bits of software released this year, and you can't help but smile the whole time you're playing it.
And google animal species. Links to essays there (like this one) seem to agree that there's about 1.7 million recorded species. And who cares about how accurate it is anyway, it was only a bit of fun. |
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@disc
"1. How many of those species are cocks?" Heh, that was my first question too. At least the real world has very few creatures that look like a twig and berries. A stick insect and a couple of beetles could arrange themselves to look a little like a meat and two veg, I suppose... but that would be two species displaying a (very) rudimentary sense of humour and could be hugely interesting stuff, scientifically speaking. |
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