Toying with Spore Prototypes
July 25th, 2008, 11:53 pm by James Fudge (No Comments)
(+2 rating, 2 votes) EA’s Spore team is doing something unprecedented: letting the public play with prototypes used to develop (and explore) components of the game. So what is the definition of a prototype? According to the Spore community site they are stand alone programs that help explore design directions in gameplay, simulation and user interface.
Two of these prototypes are available for fun at the Spore Community site: BIOME and ParticleMan. BIOME is a simulator that allows users to develop simple SimCity style grid simulations, while ParticleMan is a simulates gravitational attraction between particles in a cloud.
you can download both from the community site, and get a lot more background information on both.
Tags: Development, EA, EA Maxis, Spore, Will Wright