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Will Wright Reveals 'Spore'

At his Vision Track lecture on the final day of Game Developers Conference, Maxis founder and Sim City/The Sims creator Will Wright revealed a brand-new, p...

Simon Carless, Blogger

March 11, 2005

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At his Vision Track lecture on the final day of Game Developers Conference, Maxis founder and Sim City/The Sims creator Will Wright revealed a brand-new, previously unannounced title named Spore, one that has immediately become the talk of the show. Spore is a sprawling multi-genre title which follows life from its smallest single-cell origins all the way to planet-spanning conquerors, and the gameplay spans all the way from Cubivore-style animal consumption, through real-time strategy in the controlling of tribes, all the way up to a Civilization-reminiscent planetary (and eventually interplanetary) expansion phase. A release date, platform, and publisher is currently unspecified for the game, but Wright indicated that he will deliver more details at E3, and Gamasutra will have an in-depth analysis of his presentation in the near future.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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