House of Parlance Blog

Below is a YouTube link to the demo for Will Wright’s genuis new video game called Spore. Mr Wright, who also designed the ludicrously popular game of pixellated vicariousness called the Sims, has collaborated on this project with people like Brian Eno. Eno provides musical direction for ambient sounds that are generated spontaneously throughout the game. It looks like they’ve also recruited visionary artist Jim Woodring to add some dabs of his peculiar genius to architecture in this preview.

Basically the game intends to “simulate the development of a species through open-ended, on-the-fly, user-guided evolution.” Which sounds pretty awesome to me.

Check the clip here.