{"id":8526,"date":"2005-06-02T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8526"},"modified":"2005-06-02T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T13:19:59","slug":"demo-and-discussion-of-will-wrights-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8526","title":{"rendered":"Demo and Discussion of Will Wright&#8217;s &#8220;Spore&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always fascinated to see what sorts of crazy new games Will Wright and Maxis (creators of the Sims games) come up with. Wright&#8217;s latest project, which has generated quite a buzz online, is called Spore. Players start off as cellular organisms and follow an evolutionary path (all the way up to intelligent lifeforms), tweaking (mutating) their creations as they go. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pqhp.com\/cmp\/gdctv\/\" target=\"new\">This video demo<\/a> by Wright at the most recent Game Developers Conference is so awe-inspiring. In a world of endless first-person shooters and racing games, Wright always bring something fresh, intelligent, funny, and creative into the mix. <\/p>\n<p> BTW: Spore is built on a procedural synthesis-based approach (see <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=729&#038;mode=flat&#038;order=0&#038;thold=0\" target=\"new\">previous item<\/a> on the Xenon architecture), allowing tremendous amounts of game data to be stored on the game disc, traded over the Internet, etc. Wright says that he was inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demoscene\" target=\"new\">&#8220;Demoscene&#8221;<\/a> and their ability to cram as much media data and performance as possible into the smallest amount of space.<\/p>\n<p> [Viewing video requires free, instant registration]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always fascinated to see what sorts of crazy new games Will Wright and Maxis (creators of the Sims games) come up with. Wright&#8217;s latest project, which has generated quite a buzz online, is called Spore. Players start off as cellular organisms and follow an evolutionary path (all the way up to intelligent lifeforms), tweaking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demo and Discussion of Will Wright&#8217;s &#8220;Spore&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}