Enormous Will Wright Interview In Popular Science
The gears of the hype machine continues to turn out information concerning Will Wright’s magnum opus, Spore. He has been working on this project for about seven years, with only about 100 people working under him. Wright is responsible for some of the greatest successes in the history of gaming from Sim City to The Sims. A game like Spore could only come from experience and lessons learned from many years creating simulation games, which took the world by storm. The title is ambitious to say the least.
Popular Science sat down the Wright for a lengthy eight-page interview that covers everything you ever wanted to know about Spore, but were afraid to ask. He is a fascinating man who speaks passionately about his work, the educational value of gaming, the merit of socially responsible games, and the future of gaming. Pour yourself a spot of tea, turn on some Bach, and enjoy.
Going through the Spore demo, it seemed almost like a boxed set of games on a related theme rather than a single game. Do you see it as a series of separate experiences or are they tightly linked together?I always thought of it kind of almost as a T, where the base of the T is you working your way up the levels, where there are goals from cell to evolution to tribe to civilization. Once you get to space, though, the game opens out -- that's the top of the T – where now there are these different metagames, different kinds of metagoals you can pursue, and it becomes more of an open-ended sandbox up at the space level. So its kind of a combination of directed gameplay at the base of the T working your way up and opening up into a sandbox at the top that's more Grand Theft Auto-like.
The Wright Stuff [Popular Science]
[via Kotaku]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 13 February 2007
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All I have to say is "Yay!" (and I mean that in the "OMG ponies!!!!1" sense). I hope it doesn't suck. I was also excited to see him mention the Wii as the most suitable platform for it after the PC (and apparently DS) *crosses fingers*.
Ima be gettin dat game fo sho. It's gonna be hella awesome, ya hea?
Sorry, but really, it has to be awesome. Will Wright is a genius.
Cannot wait!