just over a week ago, this amazing little game for the wii that no one has ever heard of was released in the US (it's been out in europe for a couple months). it's a lot like pikmin, but with more kingdom building and rpg elements thrown in for good measure.

basically you are a curious little boy that one day finds a glorious crown that gives you the power to order people around. you'll summon people in your kingdom to your side, and then go out in to the great unknown to explore, collect treasure, and hopefully beat rival kings to expand your kingdom. whatever you want done, you simply "throw" your subjects at (pikmin style). if it's a log in the way, they'll cut it up, if it's an enemy, they fight it, a hole, they'll dig it, ect. as you expand your kingdom, you'll get to build special job buildings that change your citizens jobs. after a while, you can have farmers, soldiers, carpenters, hunters (ranged attacks) lumberjacks, miners, and many more. you'll eventually have to carry around a large varied group with you to get past different obstacles.

this game uses a very stylish and colorful art style. the cutscenes have a filter on them to make them look like moving oil paintings. the game may look childish, but it actually has some almost borderline adult themes in it. the kings you'll fight are very varied, from a drunk party animal, to a morbidly obese food lover that you literally play pinball against to beat, to a kingdom of worryworts, to a very long bearded king on top of a mountain who thinks that to be great is to be tall. you'll fight these kings in epic boss battles are are each different (some of them you don't even fight against, for example)

anyway, this game borrows some ideas from pikmin, and mixes in a light rpg and sim like experience, and finally adds it's own style with it's art and story. it's a very imaginative game, and it's also a fairly long game (well, 20 hours at least).

i'm just posting this because this game is selling crap in europe right now (it's at about 50k sales after almost 4 months) and i can tell it's not going to fair to well in the america's either. this is a game that i'm loving right now, and i just want the game to sell like it deserves, just like with zack and wiki, or okami, or blastworks, gems many other gems that have been forgotten over the years.

so, anyone willing to give it a chance?

it now lets you make comments that are about twice as long as before (now 256 charecters.)


i think before the limit was like 128.

I'm really excited, because my English teacher is actually letting me create a computer game as my senior project.

I am using version 7.0 lite of game maker to make this game, and I have spent around about an hour a day for about 1 week   now working on this game. I would just like to post what i have done so far here so i can get comments on what you fellow GS'rs like and dislike about the game, and suggestions on what you would like added.

HOW TO PLAY: Just click and hold the left mouse button on the ball on the pedastle thingy (the blue circle on the yellow circle) and pull the ball away from the yellow thingy, and release the button to throw it. Try to get the ball into the black circle goal. You can shoot of as many balls as you like (i'll add in some kind of scoring system that will give you a worst score if you do this later). if you somehow get stuck, you can press the r button to reset the whole level.

one thing to remember is you can't beat the 9th level, because that is how many levels i have made thus far.

here's the file :http://hosted.filefront.com/vonboy/ (about 2.2MB)

ok, thanks to anyone who can give me any kind of feedback.

Yes, it's another comment drive to try to encourage more commenting on peoples creations. there are now over 36 million creations on the sporepedia, and the vast majority have no comments and their creators are felling left behind.

so goto the sporepedia and comment on a few aspiring creator's thingamajigs today!

was thinking of making a sporecast of everybody's creatures or other spore stuff you have in your avatar on these forums. anyone interested?

i just started a new game called "ultiimate creator" on hard difficulty (my first and only other game was on easy ) and i'm playing with nothing but hydro's creations.  i'm seeing if i can survive to space phase, and then how far i can get into that before i get stuck. right now i'm in creature stage with a level 2 brain. i died in cell stage about a dozen times.

hope hydro gets a kick outa this and get back to work hydro so i don't run out of stuff to kill ally with

i think i'll try to post a comment on everything i see in the full spore game saying what i did to it or what it did to me, or just how wierd it looks in the game.

anyone else gonna do this?

i might just be that i have always had the lower end computer/console/whatever than most you the rest of you, but i don't really care all that my creature or someone else's creature might not animate that well when put into the full game. i thought most of you weren't that worried about graphics, but yet ya'll are posting godly computer set-ups on the can you run it thread and others, and saying elsewhere you will planet bust anything that animates like crap.