Looks great! Thanks Steve :) I'm looking forward to this weeks podcast!

Yeah...This video is the one on the GDC Site. It's provides a little bit of context and backstory for the smaller video

Cool! but, where's your weekly podcast, Steve?

I'm sure the game will look so great that it won't have a hope of running on my current rig. The Sims 2 has frame rate issues let alone what Spore will require.

I guess I'll enjoy Spore in about ten years when I buy my next computer. :|

A great video to say the least, but for some reason I cant get out of my mind how many times Will says "um".

So, how long after the GDC before the next vid will be on the internet?

I look forward to the next podcast. Hopefully it will be tonight!! *hint hint*

(PS I've already seen this video, but cheers anyway!!!!!) ::)

Here's my one problem with the video (and not the speech itself): Where are the slides?!! It annoys me to no end to see the man talking about and referring to images that I'm not being allowed to see!

I agree -- the lack of slides was disappointing. It's strange because many of the other videos on the GDCTV site included the slides in a seperate window.

Maybe they we all too amazed at the time to see them? I now I would be ;)

There is only one thing I want to know...

when will this game be coming out?

I predict this game will be the best game of the year, best game of the decade and the best game of the century, I give you my word.

playing this game is like... being god with a less graphical consept!

WOW

Nice one. Thanks again.

Maybe this is pessimistic of me, but last year when Steve presented Spore it wasn't just to plug the game, but to demonstrate a number of new developments in game design, including procedural... stuff. I'm really, really hoping he talks about it this year, but if he does, wouldn't that be sort of across purposes with the conference itself? Unless he's added some new stuff that substantially changes the way the game's played it'll just be an update to a project, the theories behind which have already been discussed at length. Definitely something intriguing, but to my understanding, not the purpose of the GDC.

You mean Will, right? Will Wright is the guy behind Spore, Steve is the guy behind this site ;)

Anyway, I see your point, but I also think Will knows this, so don't worry... :)

As I'm understanding, Will (or Lucy Bradshaw) will give a speech at this years GDC about prototyping, something that is also relatively new in the game development scene. Usually when a game is developt, someone has an idea and then executes it until it is finished.

This has a drawback that if that idea is flawed, the almost finished game must be tweaked to make it better, which is expensive to do. With prototyping, the development will be more streamlined, thus more costeffective. Spore is one of the first games that was first extensively prototyped, to see what works and what doesn't.

God, I want that game. Has anyone nominated Will Wright to be a god yet? His mind baffles me--so deep yet down deep he just wants to play the games.

will this be coming out on the 360?

There were alot of guys with xbox tags in the vid?....would be great if it came out for the 360 or ps3...though i'd probably pick it up for the pc too...

hmmmmm i dont think a console would have the power to run a game like this, this game does not look like it relies mostly on graphics like the console games usually do, this one will be quite processor and memory hungry wich is a think even the next gen consoles cant do very well, i would trust a 3 year old computer to run this game but not a next gen console to be honest.

by the way this game really looks amazing everything is so well made and tought and its only an early version , the only thing i'm worried about is the EA logo on it...

wow...

"next gen consoles cant do very well, i would trust a 3 year old computer to run this game but not a next gen console to be honest."

and you know the processor speed of the 360 and ps3? Honesty isn't knowledge.

consoles are for kiddies anyway, i've read the specs those look like tiny computers that look "cool" to the children... consoles are doomed since they are allmost like computers in specs, wouldnt be surprised to see this generation of consoles being the last one.

"consoles are for kiddies anyway, i've read the specs those look like tiny computers that look "cool" to the children... consoles are doomed since they are allmost like computers in specs, wouldnt be surprised to see this generation of consoles being the last one."

Wow...there really are PC-fanboys.

Seems like you try to be too intelligent for your own good, "I've read the specs" But can you comprehend?

Why would they be doomed since they almost like computer? Because you don't play them?...kiddies?

I guess people like you need a reason for spending 4000$ on something other then a blowup doll.

Um... Will needs to take some speaking classses. Um...Because he can't seem to start a sentence without "um" at the beginning. Um...that got so annoying to me that I finally turned the video off. Um... I hope he never does any voice acting in any of his games. Um...other than that, the game doesn't look too bad. Um...um...um...

Wow I want this game so bad. If only for the impact on the gaming community. Think of the possibilities.

I want to see procedural animation hooked up with Radiant AI. that would make a truely awesome game. But as things stand now any word on a release date? I believe this will be the only game i play for a good while.

that game is going to be the foothold of the golden age of gaming, there is endless possibilities and options it will be a game that is never going to board of.

Not only can I not wait for this game to come out...

...but I can't wait for this game to have been out for a year. That's when we'll have all the user-created content, the patches, the hacks, the Something Awful articles.

"hmmmmm i dont think a console would have the power to run a game like this, this game does not look like it relies mostly on graphics like the console games usually do, this one will be quite processor and memory hungry wich is a think even the next gen consoles cant do very well, i would trust a 3 year old computer to run this game but not a next gen console to be honest."

I read somewhere that the ps3 will have a 3.2GHz or 3.7GHz Processor with 7 cores. sorry but no 3 year old computer is gonna have a processor like that. So umm yeah I think the ps3 would have no trouble running it. So stop with ur random comments like a 3 year old computer could runn this. We all can tell ur just hoping that ur 3 year old computer can handle it. Oh by the way it's called an upgrade. U buy urself a processor that runs on ur board and a nre graphics card. I reccoment the new Radeon. I can't remember witch one exactly but it is better than the new GeForce 7800 or whatever that new GeForce was.

Gamespot says the expected release date is Q3 of 2006. I believe Q3 is Summer... correct me if i'm wrong.

"Gamespot says the expected release date is Q3 of 2006. I believe Q3 is Summer... correct me if i'm wrong."

If I'm correct in assuming that Q3 is Quarter 3, then it would be in the July, August, September area.

Erm... Just... Wow...

What amazed me is that every time you thought that you had reached the top, he added another level. I only heard about this game yesterday, but now... I don't know what to say... How could I have missed this?

Congrat! skazal Kondrat.

Zeige mir Deine Freunde und ich sage Dir wer Du bist.

Tell me who you associate with, and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me who you associate with, and I will tell you who you are.

A man is known by the friends he keeps.

thank you very much for your help. You guys 80582 rock, thanks again.

Gluck im Spiel, Ungluck in der Liebe.

This game got me addicted in just one hour of watching a video and a few pictures...Who else thinks this is normal?