I am currently been following the game in development called Spore.

It looks to be my type of game actually and its really turning out well I think. Though it is a long way off still from release, I thought I would share a few recent links for it. I find this game fascinating..

Heres a short video of the creature editor

I also found this flash game which is going to be similar to the very first stage of the SPORE game. This is already so darn addictive just seeing how large I can grow my little creature..

Play the game here

Downloading the video
But I don't understand the flash game
I'm just growing, and nothing attacks me!

EDIT: Just watched the video!
Man.....Is that thing for real?
I can create my own race? Research other species? I....
Wow! It's time that my army of Scorpion-Frogs starts dominating the universe!
When is this gonna come out?

For the flash game you can find more predatory things by going deeper. To do that you find the red cell and eat it and you will dive down.

I remember seeing something about this game in G4. Wanted it since I saw the preview

I think it will be a kick boat awesome game. Apart from RPG's I love games that amke me fel like god

I just thought it was scoff on sight. And what the hell do those little sticky wing things do anyway? If its just to look good Ill eat myself.

Just watched the video, and WOW am I amazed! A game where you can design your own species that will have impact on an entire ecosystem, the abilty to explore millions of stars with their own planets and satellites/moons, and expore black holes!

I dreamt of this kind of game when I was a kid and got my first PC (the Commodore VIC-20). Now at the age of 36 I'm still excited at the prospect of being able to play a game like this. It looks incredible!

I hope games like these will hit on and replace the 'run and shoot' kind of games. Games like these are fun, exciting and educational for everyone!

I agree. and actually require thought. not aim and fire. but actual strategy one game i might actually buy in the future, since it is so customizable

Here is another site which has all of the videos from so far(even the ones from last year)

Spore Videos

There is one word that sums up spore: Ambitious.

If it does everything it says it will, at a decent level, then great.

Personally I think it won't. Whenever someone has tried to do a multi-level game, one level is always the weak link.

However, if there are two people that could pull it off, Will Wright would be one of them (along with Sid Meier)

you do have a good point. but I am sitll optimistic that it will be a good game. they all have weak points here and there. just so long as it is not a major deficiency it is tolerable

Here, well.. this is sort of old news.. but I don't believe everyone has seen it.


Just watch the video here, it's only 20 minutes, but it's worth your time, believe you me.

You owe it to yourself.


Would good ol' Uncle Ache steer you wrong?

This game looks sweet, if they can pull this off then its gonna be amazing. I'd buy it.

I love the concept of Spore, but I just hope they won't screw up the end side of it.

I mean, in a video of Spore I watched, the space time was simply presented as flying around the universe and play god.

Now, when presented like that, it does sound fun, but what's the challenge? As I saw it, once got your UFO, you could just fly around and destroy or create worlds just like that. I couldn't see any diplomacy between the worlds apart from destroying them.

Or maybe I just got it all wrong. Please prove me wrong.

Well, if you want to interact with intergalatic politics then do so. The game isn't going to force you into it. As I've read currency is gained through your installations thoughout the galaxy, so you probably will have settle a planet or two (or three or four). The game won't be done until 2007 mind you (the middle of it at that) so there's still a lot to be done. First off you can only destroy a planet by spending an incedulous amount of points to do so (think buying 4 or 5 pianos on the sims 2 WITHOUT cheats) and same thing with the genisis tool. The video you're refering to is outdated and the new one hints a little bit more towards the intergalactic politics you mentioned earlier (though admitedly it is combat related).
They didn't give a big show of the civ stage, but apparently you can also take cities through diplomacy and cultural integration. I imagine that they're still working out the fine details and smoothing out the kinks on the intergalactic version. Just remember that everything isn't free and you will probably have to amass large amounts of points to get some of the upgrades (or even to use certain ones). I imagine spending points to terraform and build up your upgrades as well as colony management might eat up some of your time and impose you with some amount of limits. I'll say again that this game is still in development, so they'll probably impliment a better intergalactic political system.



Here's a direct quote that should help you.

wow.... that game looks so awsome, the whole "make people worship me" thing is sounding pretty cool. The game has a great ideal and it looks nice too. Can't wait untill it comes out.

Oh man, you said it. I'm predicting it coming out sooner than they say. I've read up on this heavily, and they keep saying that the date really isn't a very set thing, and they also have finished programming all the gameplay details and they're just polishing up, ironing out the bugs, and playing with the interface. I'm predicting sometime around christmas, most likely after. Sometime in early 2007 most definently, and hey, I was right about the Oblivion release date, wasn't I? (for those of you who may remember).

I'd like to say i remember you with the Oblivion release date but i don't so i'm just going to trust you on that one. I just hope your prediction powers (oh yeah) will continue through to this one.

Hey man, just trust good 'ol Uncle Ache

This one is founded on less than my Oblivion guess was, so I wouldn't be suprised if I was wrong. Still, I'm sticking by this one.



EDIT:

BAM

Yep, me and a group of friends have been following this game since the beginning of its creation thinking it was rather cool looking and interesting. Personally, I agree with foster that it most likely wont be what we expect it to due to the fact its really quit ambitious and going out and beyond what normal games do.

For you people interested in Spore, here is a link to some videos from the game ...

http://www.kotaku.com/?refId=197859

I wasn't a fan of the Sims, or the Sim Cities, but this one seems different enough that it has some interest with me. Maybe it's the creature creation thingy, but this actually looks cool.

The only cool simulation I've played was the Roller Coaster Tycoon games. You could drown the guests if you wanted too I rarely did, i'm not terribly cruel.

Yeh, you know what I hated about the Sims??? .... too MUCH micromanagement. Like, c'mon ... if I had a 4 year old child - it can control it's own bathroom urges; so why do I have to watch that ALL my Sims don't pee themselves simultaneously.


HAHAHAHAAAAHHHH!!!!

hehe but you have to admit it´s pretty funny to see them pee on the floor and then cry their eyes out!

I´ll buy Sims 2.....I just love creating charachters and lead them through life! Ehhh I could continue writing on my story...it´s about the same thing reallhy!

OMG Minque ... Serene is so much cooler than a Sim! Or maybe your SIMs are just cooler than mine were. I do have to admit it was funny to see them crying over that. Even funnier, you make them mop it up while they are still crying and they get so upset that they pee themselves again while they are mopping!! hahah

I can't believe we are talking about this ... hope Starg doesn't see it and punish us both for acting like 3 year olds. My favorite occurences in The Simms were the kitchen fires where my Simms wouldn't leave the house no matter what you did and when that cute little buglar guy used to come around. He looked like Hamburgular, didn't he?

ya i know, im bringing this topic back (applause is welcome). have any of you seen the new videos, this gaming is just mocking all religions and thats what i love about it most. But seriously space travel online to thousands of other planets that are all unique in some way, thats kick-boat