Will Wright and Brian Eno - Spore Creature Demo

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

"The Sims" designer Will Wright demonstrates the character-creation phase 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 Foundation

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[jack bullough]

i don't want blood i want a realistic portrayal of evolution

[TheYoungMaster1000]

i like the old spore better. where i can get the old spore?

[TheStickNull]

You can't. Help me program a Spore 05 clone!

[FluffyFly24]

Will Wright! Do you even know how pervo you are? I mean look at it! A huge dick with a beak. The dick even make sounds!

[Regginyaga]

the animation looks so much more fluid

[petros stativa]

Nicd

[N4teK95]

A group of people are making a game called Thrive and it's going to aim to do what Spore couldn't do in the end. It wont be out any time soon but you should see what you can do to help/spread the word.

[GlitchManAlpha]

Deal!

[Xander Kyron]

Deal?

[GlitchManAlpha]

We could unite the fanbase and make a better game, and show to EA and say:"This money and fame could have been yours, (expletive)!"

[Xander Kyron]

Exactly! You see, the thing that is missing in your reply is the knowledge that I program video games :P  If you could sculpt some parts in Sculptris (Keeps the smoothness in the models, so good graphics are ensured!), I could program those into a creature creator mode and work our way from there. Or, the creatures could be made in a seperate sculpting program with a 3d interface *Wink Wink*