Thursday, August 16, 2007

A video game of a different league

Typical simulation games have a narrow themes like a war conquest or a building a city like in SimCity. Will Wright the creator of popular game SimCity is coming up with this new game called Spore which is a simulation of evolution itself. The current state of life is one of the path evolution has taken but with this game you are the creator starting with a single cell, you can take any path your mind fancies way out into outer galactic exploration. Here is a preview talk by him at TED:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146

Venkat

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