Has anyone on the Spore team created a single microbial creature that eventually evolved into Will Wright?
Somebody did create a Will Wright sporeling; I don’t know if they evolved it all the way from the cell game or not. They did print it out in 3D; it’s still sitting in my office next to my computer. It’s a rather ugly little thing. “As far as character development goes, I think that’s a bit of a red herring in games. We should focus on extracting and expanding worlds, characters and storylines from the players.” 3. What things did you want to include in Spore but couldn’t because of time or technology restrictions? There are obviously lots of features you eventually need to cut from any design if you actually want to eventually ship. Sometimes these cuts are due to time/resource constraints but not always. We had wanted the ability to build underwater civilizations in Spore but could never get a very usable interface for controlling a 3d RTS in our prototypes. There was also a “close encounters” minigame that we cut because it was only fun to play about three times. 4. Did the introduct
