A couple of students and staff (including myself!) from the department were at the Singapore Zoo the other day for a talk given by Will Wright, the very famous game industry person and designer of the upcoming Spore game. I haven’t been playing a lot of games since GTA IV—the two of us are still struggling to finish the Lego: Indiana Jones that Matt bought us—but Spore has piqued my interest for a while now since it was announced what 3 years ago.
One of the freebie items that was included in the Guest Bag provided by Electronic Arts during the talk was a coupon for the Spore Creature Creator, an appetizer of sorts that’ll allow you to create your own custom critter. The trial version is freely downloadable here (the coupon was for the full version which saved me $20—mwahahaha), and it’s quite a ball of fun.
The animated avatar on this page is my pet critter generated from the program itself, and you can just let your imagination run wild.:)
Ah, so it’s that Spore? It’d been so long since I’d read about the new Wright game that, judging from your facebook entry, I had assumed you made reference to something entirely different, perhaps a local S’pore game!
Haha.:) A game where you can make your own pratas, and come with sensory outputs that’ll exhibit prata scents? :)
Yep, which for me would a true to life Singapore simulator, involving our protagonist, mild-mannered Matt, as he defies Singaporean public transportation and the sweltering Southeast Asian sun in a courageous attempt to quench his hunger for roti prata.