After having read the article, I'm not certain whether it is a comment on gaming, an interview with Will (and others) or a preview, but it sure is a very interesting article.
So The Long Zoom by author Steven Johnson is perhaps a bit of everything and it does have some really good info on Spore, even for those who have followed the game for a while. Did you know for instance that Will first started work on the game over six years ago?
A quote from the article to whet you appetite:
“O.K., now we’re finally cooling off,” he said, clicking furiously on his computer screen. “The temperature’s going down, so we can get more water in here. Oh, now we’ve got way too much atmosphere.” While adjusting the planet, he paused long enough to say: “It’s kind of like that labyrinth game where you’re rolling the ball around the maze, trying to drop it in the hole. Except we’ve got these inertial effects, where your planet starts heating up, and you’re trying to slow it down, but you get these runaway greenhouse effects.” He turned back to the screen. “O.K., our temperature’s pretty good; our atmosphere’s pretty good. Now let’s see if we can add water.”
It seems NYT has changed the availability of this article so that only registered members can read it now. :fuckdummies:
October 8th, 2006 by Falconer - 13 Comments - Share it!
Star Wars Man - October 8th, 2006 - 12:09
Well, that definantly explained a lot. Cool, that was really helpful and informative. :yousuckers:
Falconer - October 8th, 2006 - 13:44
Yup, one of the best Spore related articles I've read.
Star Wars Man - October 8th, 2006 - 16:18
Finally, we get some more info about Spore, even if we know about some of it.
Dafool - October 8th, 2006 - 21:41
Hmmm.... Seems I need access to read it. :fuck: Dang.
At-At Controller - October 9th, 2006 - 02:31
lol yeah it was intersting to read even if we didnt learn much from it
Safri Jefro - October 9th, 2006 - 12:14
Luckily i still got to read it on time! Nothing new but a good read annyways! PS: Sorry for my spelling, i'm from Belgium
Felix H. Cat - October 10th, 2006 - 05:58
Uhhh... I don't know if they're filtering American IPs for subscription or what... but I'm from Canada and just like the Belgium guy, I could read it fine. =D
Great article.
Falconer - October 10th, 2006 - 09:08
Seems that sometimes it is open and sometimes it is not. I have had it work about 60% of the times I tried to access it.
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