Will Wright and Brian Eno - Spore Metaverse

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno

"The Sims" designer Will Wright demonstrates the user-created "metaverse" from his latest game, "Spore," with additional commentary by musician Brian Eno.

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Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time."

In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno give an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of "generative" creation.

Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright's genre-busting computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was additionally inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain," in which two identical 1.8 second tape loops beat against each other out of phase for a riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music for Airports" (1978), and the genre he named "ambient music" was born.

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years - The Long Now Foundaton

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[FixedByDoc]

my wife loves it. she has been playing it everyday for a couple of months now. you can create creatures over and over and new solar systems. the game is forever changing. you could go from begginning to end in one day if you only made one creature and did not explore hardly any of the solar system you originated in. if you dont like the game just say so but you dont need to belittle it. i think its pretty cool that technology has come this far and it shows us that there is so much left we can do

[PieMoe]

I really love how realistic this game is compaired to the only version we are allowed to play. i wish they put this version out on the market. I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME!! It is much more realistic than the version where if you try to flood a colony the colony magically raises upwards.

[nightwing49766]

Will's demo is much better.

[nightwing49766]

@warriorfar9 Well we hope so, but too many rummors has it that he left EA, because they ruined the game because they took out the water stage.

[MadCatt97]

i really hate how they made the demo look so much better then the real game, don't get me wrong its a great game but it would have been so much better if they would have just felt it more like the demo

[Horrorlord1]

ForaTV intro makes me think of some brainwashing channel with weird news, and intergalactic tv shows, o_O

[Razorlvirus]

Demos are always superior to finished products

Video Games have proven this

[bolmung]

Amazing :D

[phlips01]

Way to go Eno

[do501]

i love spore but i would have loved this demo better

[warriorfar9]

lol alienware computer much?

[warriorfar9]

@13scarfare13 It is not he said he will help with future expansions( which he hinted their will be) and also with the sims and other games he helped make