New Spore Details, Possible Movie Deal 73
Eurogamer has a new hands-on analysis of Spore, as well as an interview with game designer Will Wright. He talks about the lengthy development cycle, the influence of religion (or lack thereof) on the game, and how movie-like stories are integrated into modern titles. Coincidentally, EA wants to license the television and movie rights for Spore as part of a new marketing campaign.
TV Show or Movie ? (Score:2, Insightful)
How could you make a TV show or a Movie about a simulation game that is supposed to be limitless ?
A movie with creatures made from the game ?
Who cares? (Score:2)
If it has Angelina Jolie in it scantily clad, it'll be a huge success no matter how crap the movie is.
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If it has Angelina Jolie in it scantily clad, it'll be an awesome movie no matter how crap the rest of the movie is
Fixed that for you
Re:TV Show or Movie ? (Score:5, Funny)
Just call Uwe Boll, he'll know what to do!
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Could it be seppuku [wikipedia.org]? Please?
Cheers
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Could it be seppuku [wikipedia.org]? Please?
Cheers
Now that is an Uwe Boll production I'd pay to see!
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in your movie idea,
who you gonna call?
Uwe Boll!
If the script is shit,
and it don't look good,
who you gonna call?
Uwe Boll!
He ain't afraid of no sequels!
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You're thinking too mainstream... I'll bet there's a relatively large niche for tentacle monster movies in the Japan.
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How could you make a TV show or a Movie about a simulation game that is supposed to be limitless ?
A movie with creatures made from the game ?
Yeah... I think the clips of anthropomorphic genetalia on YouTube are opening a whole new market right now... who wouldn't pay to see that stuff in hi-def, with Spielberg special effects?
A New Genre called... (Score:2)
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Re:TV Show or Movie ? (Score:4, Interesting)
How could you make a TV show or a Movie about a simulation game that is supposed to be limitless ?
A movie with creatures made from the game ?
Actually... I just thought of an approach that would be kinda creative and fun.
Instead of making a game set in the "Spore universe," whatever that is (and you're quite accurate in saying such a thing is ridiculous), what about a movie about the ideas that go behind a game like Spore?
If Spore is ultimately about simulated evolution, perhaps you could make a movie about the simulation, rather than taking it at face value. A bunch of lab geeks playing god with their artificial world. Throw in some typical Hollywood business about the simulation becoming self-aware, and you've got an interesting idea. It'd be a movie about the relationship between a god and his/her creations, with the twist that the gods are just normal human beings.
Alternately, you could just do a sort of Matrix-style thing. Any of the Sim franchises is probably ripe for it, although I don't know how far you could push the novelty of that.
Of course, it could just be that EA's licensing the rights as a marketing move to sorta highlight that, "Hey, Spore is such a big franchise, we're even licensing the rights to it. Never mind that there's almost no chance we actually make a movie based on it, and even if we do, it'll probably be crap."
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Hmm.. Sounds a lot like Roundworld from "The Science of Discworld" books.
Though I doubt it would be as much fun.
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If the game is limitless, there are limitless opportunities for TV shows and movies.
Right?
Right?
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Lots of penis creatures. Lots of them.
Re:Easy (Score:4, Insightful)
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Say what you will about EA, they have some new interesting stuff and not just Spore.. I am very interested in Mirror's Edge and Dead Space
Merchandising, merchandising (Score:2)
Spore Movie? What about SimCity? (Score:1)
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I want my The Sims Movie. It would make a nice horror. A loving husband who died in the pool would return at night, and don't let me start on garden gnomes..
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Not a movie.. but
A complete music video in Simlish! [youtube.com]
What in the Hell? (Score:2)
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Movie? (Score:2)
seriously, wtf?
it's not going to include user created content is it?
Not buying it until they lose the DRM (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Not buying it until they lose the DRM (Score:5, Insightful)
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Unless you can get a significant chunk of the gaming population to do the same thing you are, they won't listen.
Actually, even if you can get a significant chunk of the gaming population to boycott it, they still won't listen - they'll just chalk the lack of sales up to "damn pirates".
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Or until there is a community based patch to remove the DRM.
I tried finding a way to contact EA/Maxis, and all I could find was their support portal. Entirely FAQ based, and when you go the route of "None of these help me, let me send an e-mail to customer support" my message was received but obviously misunderstood.
How can I and the rest of the community tell EA/Maxis that they're not going to purchase the game unless the draconian DRM is removed? They don't seem to want to hear my thoughts, and I'm already planning on voting with my wallet.
The "community based patch," aka crack, for the game will no doubt be available within one day of the official game release. That may even be one day before the official release.
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Why is food choice critical? Tut-tut Will... (Score:2)
There are plenty of examples of species crossing over from plant-eating to meat-eating and vice versa. Consider the dolphin or the kinkajou... or ones stuck in the middle like humans...
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Plants?
Who the hell eats that shit?
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Anything new on the install limits? (Score:3, Interesting)
Has he said anything new about the securom DRM recently? Since it's supposedly going to have the same 3 install limit as mass effect, I cancelled my pre-order.
I simply won't accept a game that so heavily restricts how many times I'm allowed to reinstall windows or upgrade my PC in the lifetime of the game before having to make an expensive phone call to plead with EA tech support to be allowed to continue playing, with no guarantee they'll say yes. Even for a game that looks as tasty as spore.
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Here is my plan.
I'm buying the game.
I'm downloading the pirate version, and putting it on my game PC. the one I buy, goes on my work PC.
Every 2 to 3 days, I'm going to call EA and complain about the game making my emulators not work, restricting me from testing hardware out. Changing bios settings, messing with my firewall, whatever I can do to make the DRM shut me down.
If they get enough phone calls, and it costs them enough money, they WILL kill the DRM with a Patch.
Will Wright still gets money, and EA mi
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I reinstall windows or upgrade every few months, recently. So if I'd bought spore 6 months ago, I'd now be out of installs with only 1 pc. What if I'd wanted to play on my laptop, or upgrade to vista? I'd plan on playing spore for years, I still dig out civilization or sim city or other old games years after I bought them. If they had the level of DRM of spore, I'd have been locked out long ago.
The mass effect DRM was broken before the game was even in the shops in my country - it lasted literally hours, no
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Motherboard changes. x-fi sound card, various nvidia chipsets and finally an intel motherboard, with different selections of 4GB DDR2 so the thing will boot reliably. The first one did, but that gigabyte piece of crap went bang, so I had to replace it. Repeatedly, trying to get a stable system with working sound under XP and vista that didn't decide that today it wasn't going to boot any more until I flashed the BIOS. All the rejected motherboards are fine under linux, so it's just crap nvidia windows drive
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DRM is the only way to stop the pirates in the first few weeks.
Then the developers should remove the DRM after the first few weeks once it has been cracked?
Or maybe they should just not bother with DRM in the first place because it only affects and impedes legitimate customers.
What a ridiculous argument.
Creation of the Universe (Score:2)
[With Spore] we didn't want to go too far down that path: we leave the whole creation of the universe question open.
With spore, we know how the universe was created. It was created in Will Wright's office. Duh.
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[With Spore] we didn't want to go too far down that path: we leave the whole creation of the universe question open.
With spore, we know how the universe was created. It was created in Will Wright's office. Duh.
Intelligent design for the win.
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Intelligent design of a universe driven by natural selection!
Is that a compromise, or what?
Pyrrhic Compromise: a solution to a problem designed to piss off everyone involved.
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I'm not sure I would describe people who hold that belief as creationists, unless they told me that's how they wanted me to do so (and I'd be sure to ask why). Nor would I expect that any technical or scientifically minded person who was willing to accept something like the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics would be prepared to rule it out.
Also... I have made similar suggestions to various people who did identify themselves as creationists at various times over the past 36 years (the first time I
Of course a movie! (Score:2)
It's a well known fact that the movie "Star Wars" was based on the game "Space War".
I can't wait for Stephen Colbert to cover it (Score:2)
Every time he announces his "Sport Report" I keep thinking he's talking about this game.
My god.. the spore creatures... (Score:4, Funny)
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militancy (Score:2)
There is no connection between atheism and militancy. Those who conflate the two (like the interviewer) are engaged in little more than hate speech.
Perhaps the interviewer was just trying to drive clicks by insulting a large number of people, or perhaps he really does hate atheists; but in any case, someone who tries to convince others of his own religions view should be called "outspoken" or "evangelical*." This use of the word "militant" is very very bad form by Eurogamer.
*I would love to see the one of t
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There is no connection between atheism and militancy. Those who conflate the two (like the interviewer) are engaged in little more than hate speech.
Haven't you done a little research? When you lack belief in a god or goddess, you are naturally militant. I guess.
It's always made me laugh that some people find others who either currently lack religion or were introduced to the concept of immortal gods at an age when they can separate fantasy, ideas, and reality - stupid. and militant. and blind. They "lack morals".
If by militant the person was referring to its activist definition, the same way Martin Luther King Jr was militant in equal rights regardless
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As far as I know, the term "militant atheist" was coined by Richard Dawkins, who is clearly of the opinion that a militant atheist is a good thing to be.
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Using the term "militant atheist" does not equate to conflating atheism and militancy, any more than using the term "Ford car" implies that all cars are made by Ford.
It's true that the majority of atheists are nice tolerant folk who by and large couldn't care less whether other people choose to believe in Jesus, Buddha, or the Tooth Fairy if they want to. But n
Spore: Ticket Terms (Score:5, Insightful)
To view Spore: The Movie, you are required to:
1) Register at the place where you bought your tickets for a key.
2) Carry a phone with a data and text messaging plan.
3) Periodically text message or visit a secured site during the movie to send the key.
Failure to do 3) will result in ejection from the theater. You are completely responsible for being able to send the key at the required intervals. Each participant requires their own key regardless of age. Any sharing of keys or reverse engineering is a violation of the DMCA.
not sure (Score:1)