Will Wright is a genius. He invented a whole genre of gaming called "God Games" where you control every aspect of the game world you are in-not just one character. You dont win or lose or blow stuff up or enter any blood codes or "pwn" any "noobs" when you play his games either. But you do get to use your imagination to instigate creative design. You may have heard of him from games like SimCity and The Sims.
Recently I found this video from the TED conference this year. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design and its a bunch of lectures every year which mostly covers how we are doing at combining Ts Es and Ds. This video features Mr. Wright discussing his latest project "Spore". If you havent heard of it already it is a "God Game" that starts you out on the cellular level from which you are to evolve to the intergalactic level, with complete creative control over the evolution of your character. Bionic Will does a much better job than me of explaining it, after all he did create it. He does not however, explain why he is indeed Bionic. Not even science can answer some things, folks.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Bionic Will Wright presents Spore
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Will Wright broke his arm in a skiing accident. That stuff on his arm is just Science.
Did you guys ever watch this video? I will admit, I waited until now to peep this. It was incredible. However, David Lynch says I still have not watched it, because I saw it on my iPod.
He says in the video that Spore will let us play out The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001, and War of the Worlds. He demonstrates by baking a planet in greenhouse gases and boiling the seas away.
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