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- Comment on 3 days ago:
It might be worth to link to the original source: www.designroom.site/spore-an-oral-history/
Design Room is a new online magazine authored by one of the writers laid-off by Vox Media when it acquired Polygon.
You can read the Oral Histories after a free subscription. - Comment on 4 days ago:
Have you played it? The main setting of Spore is the Creature Stage. So far, in Thrive, only the microbe stage is available.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
We remember it as awesome, because we played it when we were very young. The Creature Stage still almost is, but the rest of the game is not.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I think they are referring to one of the showcased demos of Spore, of which the most prominent is the 2005 GDC one.
spore.fandom.com/wiki/Removed_features#Creature_S…
Behavior of creatures
The behavior of the creatures also had more depth than the final game. In today’s Spore creatures rarely leave the perimeter of their nest, and possibly has a simpler ecosystem (until Space Stage). This feature was prominent in earlier versions, as in the footage of the 2005 version, small creatures hopped around, grazed, or simply wandered off with no nests for them.
I love Spore, but replaying it today I see how much is missing from making each stage really fleshed-out. Being honest, the Creature Stage is clearly what received the most attention, while subsequent Stages are not as fun.
A lot of it is to be attributed to Maxis and Will Wright: apparently much of what was shown in 2005 and 2006 was never really playable.
But things like this suggest a heavy involvement of the publisher as well:During the SXSW 2007 demo, Will Wright said that the Aquatic Stage was on the verge of being cut. He also said that, if cut, the Aquatic Stage would be one of the first things to add via an expansion pack, though ultimately no such expansion was released.
There was a plan to add the Aquatic Stage into the full game via an expansion pack titled “The Depths”, although it was never publicly announced. except for one advertisement.
- Comment on Scary indeed. 1 week ago:
You can really feel the thrill of discovery and exploration.
Also I am glad that Nintendo is finally taking a political stance wath that sentence at the end. - Comment on Scary indeed. 1 week ago:
That is up to The Pokémon Company.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t work for anyone. People use up their vacation days.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Which driving games you play that let you drive into towns?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How so? The person they replied to is also mocking in bad faith.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Mate, I live in “Europe” and my town is a hellscape.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 weeks ago:
In the US, military service is sold to clueless teenagers and brings welfare benefits that you can’t find elsewhere.
Not arguing that you should pity them, though. - Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the informative text, but it is definitely a problem in the rest of the world too, at least in Europe. The front lights of cars have gotten too bright for urban settings, and perhaps there are just too many cars around, to the point I have read and heard dozens different people in recent years wondering if it’s just their perception.
Driving a bicycle at night on the side of a road is impossible if you are not equipped as well with a sun in a box. - Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 weeks ago:
The park is not an island. The rider risks his life elsewhere, and it’s a hassle to keep turning the headlight on and off every fave miutes.
- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 3 weeks ago:
Most likely yes.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 weeks ago:
Tap water is good here in the Alps.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
This is where your tax money goes.
- Comment on I've been staring at this shirt for a long time and still have no idea what it means 4 weeks ago:
But that is not a cock.
- Comment on Winning life 101 2 months ago:
They are not all brainless. 4chan is just a catalogue of different imageboards.
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 2 months ago:
In the University of Bremen it’s full of big red buttons everywhere to avoid touching handles.
- Comment on Looking sharp as ever 2 months ago:
Please don’t leak our national memes on .world
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 2 months ago:
Here’s a graphical summary for you:
Spoiler
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 months ago:
Square Enix is the same company that went all-in on crypto a few years ago, only to quickly realise that it didn’t make sense and drop it silently.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 2 months ago:
>job interview is cut short
>they don’t call me back
>fallback to cave routine - Comment on Anon makes some changes 2 months ago:
the manosphere
What about Seneca? Stoicism? What do they have to do with “the manosphere”?
Cold showers feel great.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 2 months ago:
There are hundreds of communities on lemmy.world. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for one of them to not touch party politics.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 2 months ago:
I sympathise with the part of this shitposting community who would rather find shitposts and not commentary on political parties.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 months ago:
It’s definitely a stunt for share-holders, not directed at consumers.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
NVIDIA is the AI company now. There’s no turning back.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 2 months ago:
You can improve the comic by removing the labels on the peasants’ shirts.
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 3 months ago:
Fer anyone reading: that is false.
