Name: Spore, birth of a game
Uploaded: 2007-07-17T10:22:00Z
Duration: 16 min 23 s
Description: In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.

In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.

Spore, birth of a game

Games designed as modern education tools can spark deep understanding by letting players experiment, fail, and create. A single game can let users evolve a species from one cell to cosmic civilization, compressing millions of years of change into minutes. When people shape a world themselves, they care more about its fate and learn vital principles about life, science, and long-term consequences. Hands-on play becomes a powerful way to calibrate intuition for complex challenges we face far beyond the game.