Strange Games

[Psychospacecow]

Spore was a strange game.
To anyone who hasn't played it, the game was the brain child of the creator of The Sims, and centered around evolution.
It looked like everything I had ever wanted in a game and more.


Unfortunately, there was a dispute within the development team which inevitably led to the simplification of the game to appeal to a wider audience, which amounted to press 1 to be friends, press 2 to piss off everyone.

Anyway, Spore centers around 5 separate stages.
Cell,Animal,Tribal,Civilization, and Space.
Each more or less was a mini-game into itself.

The sheer amount of work that would have been needed to program the physics for most of this game, seeing as it is in its own right 5 different games is almost a nightmare.