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So, you’ve just heard about Spore — maybe you watched the infamous GDC ‘05 demo video, or maybe you heard about Spore through the E3 ‘06 hype. If you’ve still got some questions about Spore, go ahead and read on — this section is filled with all the information we could gather about the game.

What is Spore?

Spore is the evolution of Will Wright’s Sim series (Sim City, The Sims, etc). Spore will be a Sim-everything. You will be able to create and evolve a creature from the cells up. You’ll control and evolve your creature as he mophs from a single-celled organism until his species is conquering the galaxy.

Will describes the game as a massively single-player game: while the gameplay is all single player, the content in your world is asychronously pulled from other user’s machines. This means that everything you see in the game is actually created by other players (See content sharing).

How Spore works

While playing Spore, you will go through five different stages of gameplay that dictacte your specific goals for the stage of game you’re playing. Throughout these stages, you will use associated editor to create the content you see in the game (See content editors). The gaming engine will use procedural generation to bring life into the creatures and objects you create.

When can I play spore?

September 7, 2008 (Pre Order on Amazon)

On June 17th, you’ll be able to download a free version (or pay for an enhanced version) of the content editor (creature creator). (Pre Order on Amazon)

What can I play spore with?

For the official launch of September 7th, there have been only two platforms confirmed: PC and OS X (Macintosh) versions. Hardware specifications can be found on the official Spore site.

Confirmed platforms

• PC (Windows)
• OS X (Apple Macintosh)
• Nintendo DS

Speculated platforms:

• Web-based
• Cell Phones
• iPhone (native application)