Pop!Tech Presentation

Will Wright appeared unexpectedly at Pop!Tech presenting Spore a few days ago along with Brian Eno. The Last Boss were able to catch some interesting tidbits from it.

- Your creature creations will be turned into cards, which others can collect and try out in their games
- The physics and fluid engines breaks all the rules and doesn’t take any memory at all cause Will Wright is amazing
- Describes how games nowadays like to explore specifics and simplicity of gameplay, names toys Americans don’t understand
- Spore patents new gaming word: Scenius - the genius of a group of people
- AI is being discussed, Will Wright says that your Spore game will learn how foreign creatures should act based on how other players have designed and played them in other games of Spore
- A speaker scolds the question taker for not choosing raised hands in the right order
- Discussing game’s evoked emotions and comparing them to White House’s bad decisions! Also compares to Ico’s awe and wonder
- “Take a Virgin to lunch” break number one has begun, damn I wish I was there! These guys are very organized and fun

Unfortunately the presentation itself was only a live feature and all I was able to find was a short article with some pictures. If you managed to catch this or know where to find a video online give us a shout!

Just a quick sidenote; Brian Eno being there with Will Wright is really interesting. Why? His type of music would fit like a hand in a glove for Spore. Hopefully we’ll see some sort of cooperation between those two.

Thanks to happydan20 at Gaming Steve for spotting this.

Edit: Neighbourhood hero Felix H. Cat found a more extensive article covering the presentation.