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''Spore'' is a video game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright, released in September 2008. The game has drawn wide attention for its ability to simulate the development of a species on a galactic scope, using its innovation of user-guided evolution via the use of procedural generation for many of the components of the game, providing vast scope and open-ended gameplay. ''Spore'' is a god game. The player molds and guides a species across many generations, growing it from a single-celled organism into a more complex animal. Eventually, the species becomes sentient. The player then begins molding and guiding this species' society, developing it into a space-faring civilization, at which point they can explore the galaxy in a space ship. ''Spore''s main innovation is the use of procedural generation for many of the components of the game, providing vast scope and open-endedness. Wright said, "I didn't want to make players feel like Luke Skywalker or Frodo Baggins. I wanted them to be like George Lucas or J. R. R. Tolkien." During the 2007 Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference, Wright added that he wanted to create a "toy" for kids to inspire long-term thinking, stating, "I think toys ''can'' change the world."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2007 TED video of Spore )〕 ==History and development== ''Spore'' was originally a working title, suggested by Maxis developer Ocean Quigley, for the game which was first referred to by the general public as ''SimEverything''. Even though ''SimEverything'' was a first choice name for Wright, the title ''Spore'' stuck. Wright adding it also freed him from the preconceptions another ''Sim'' title would have brought, saying "...Not putting 'Sim' in front of it was very refreshing to me. It feels like it wants to be breaking out into a completely different thing than what Sim was."〔 Wright was inspired by the Drake equation and the 1977 film ''Powers of Ten'' when developing ''Spore''. ''Spores development began in 2000, around the time that development began for ''The Sims Online''. The earliest version was inspired by the SETI Project, as Wright admitted, "The original concept was sort of a toy galaxy you could fly around and explore." ''Spore'' It was officially unveiled two months later at E3 2005, the industry's annual trade show. GDC 2006 featured two ''Spore'' related talks, ''Building Community Around Pollinated Content in Spore''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GDC 2006 ''Building Community Around Pollinated Content in Spore'' )〕 and ''Spore: Preproduction Through Prototyping''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GDC 2006 ''Spore: Preproduction Through Prototyping'' )〕 A video released on YouTube〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=YouTube E3 2006 video footage )〕 shows "unedited footage of Spore that will be going to TV networks covering E3 2006", and includes an overhauled creature editor, a first look at the texturing tools, as well as glimpses at other aspects of the game. Such things were discussed on G4's ''Attack of the Show'' numerous times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Attack of the Show index at G4 TV. )〕 Will Wright has said that the game was also influenced by many TV shows, films and toys, such as Lego and ''Star Wars''. By E3 2007, the game's look had changed again, with major changes to the graphical style.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=YouTube E3 2007 video footage )〕 The ''Sporepedia'' was inspired by Web 2.0.〔 At the DICE Summit, Wright playfully introduced four designers according to their design team personas, dubbing designer and senior art director Quigley as ''The Scientist'', Chaim Gingold as ''The Toymaker'', Jenna Chalmers as ''The Mastermind'', Alex Hutchinson as ''The Cowboy'', and himself as ''The Traffic Cop''. Quigley revealed at the Summit the difficulty of making the editors (the creature and vehicle editors in particular) extremely accessible, stating it was like "art directing a million incompetents... () don’t have good sense as to what makes a good character, so you have to put in all these techniques and tools, so when they do something, it looks good."〔 The New York Times reported a projected development cost of twenty million United States dollars on October 10, 2006. In April 2007, ''Civilization IV'' lead designer Soren Johnson joined EA Maxis to work on ''Spore''. Soon after, some video game sites theorized that this news indicated that the release of Spore might slip to 2008. A projected 2008 release was revealed three weeks later at an EA conference call, corroborating the speculation that a significant amount of development was still left to be completed. In a GameVideos interview with Garnett Lee, Wright explained, "I credit him with, basically, you know, being able to present (Civilization phase ) that has that many, ah, strategic possibilities but not have it being overwhelming from a gameplay mechanic sense." By July 2007, the game was a complete, fully featured alpha build undergoing closed play testing. On August 23, 2007, a closed door demonstration of a playable build was featured at Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=GameSpot )〕 At the 2008 DICE Summit, Electronic Arts CEO John Ricitiello stated, "It's probably the greatest creative risk maybe going on in the game industry today...I believe it's going to be one of the greatest franchises in our industry and will rival ''World of Warcraft'' or ''The Sims'' or ''Rock Band''. It's going to be right up there."〔(EA CEO Calls Spore The Greatest Creative Risk In The Industry, Kotaku )〕 Promotion and advertising were ramped up in May and June 2008, as the YouTube ''Spore'' channel opened, new trailers focusing on each phase along with developer interviews were released, and the ''Creature Creator'' was released, allowing players to upload their creations to the revamped (official site ). Will Wright announced at E3 2008 that National Geographic would do a television documentary on ''Spore'', as scientists use the game to explain real-life biological, physical, and evolutionary science; this is the same documentary that will be included with ''Spore: Galactic Edition''. He also announced a partnership with SETI, taking part in the Celebrating Science 2008 activity on July 16, 2008, where ''Spore'' betas were available for play.〔Electronic Arts E3 2008 press conference〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Celebrating Science 2008 )〕 On August 14, 2008, ''Spore'' was declared to have gone gold. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Development of Spore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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