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Maxis Releases Spore Prototypes

by Nick Breckon, Sep 09, 2008 3:55pm PDT

Related Topics – Spore, PC

Those interested in the development phase of Maxis' phase-based sim title Spore are in luck: a number of early prototype games, ranging from star formation to simple OpenGL creature games, have been released by Maxis.

"One of the ways in which we explore possible design directions is by building simple, playable prototypes that we can play around with to get a sense for a particular system," reads the official Maxis site.

"Usually these prototypes are never seen by the public, but we thought some of the more intrepid players out there might enjoy playing around with a few of our early Spore prototypes."

Users can download the games from Maxis' prototype page, which provides a short description for each.

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By: TANSTAAFL420 x Show Full Post

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This kind of makes the disappointment that was spore sting that much more.

These prototypes are actually better then the end product is many respects..
Also you get to see even more dropped features..
Thanks.

Sep 09, 2008 7:07pm PDT

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  uh, every game/software product has tons of dropped features : filthysock
  - wow, blanket statement much? : ermac311

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Strange... I don't see fl0w on that list.

Sep 09, 2008 6:54pm PDT

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Strange... I don't see fl0w on that list. : Lemming4242
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- ...spore's first announcements, et cetera, predate fl0w, if I recall. My foggy memory is arguably supp... : Fayk

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Where's the procedurally animated creature creator?

Sep 10, 2008 6:16am PDT

Where's the procedurally animated creature creator? : ReiMomo

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By: Topaz x Show Full Post

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Do these come with DRM rootkits as well?

Sep 09, 2008 5:28pm PDT

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Do these come with DRM rootkits as well? : Topaz
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  Spore comes with copy protection, like every other game. I'm not sure what you're referring to with the "... : crummynz
  - Are you familiar with rohypnol? No? Let me buy you a drink. : badspot
- No, but they do come with a nice big cup of WHINE : techx4

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By: poopster2 x Show Full Post

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15 minutes of "cool" 30 minutes of "Zzzzzzzzzzzz".

Sep 09, 2008 11:58pm PDT

15 minutes of "cool" 30 minutes of "Zzzzzzzzzzzz". : poopster2

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I just spent an hour and a half on the space prototype.
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Sep 09, 2008 8:42pm PDT

I just spent an hour and a half on the space prototype. =[ : MercFox1

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While I'm not interested in Spore I like the idea. 3DRealms should do the same thing after DNF comes out since it would be interesting to see some of the early versions. I wouldn't mind seeing the two versions of Prey that were nearly released as well and id's survival horror game.

Sep 09, 2008 5:03pm PDT

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  yah that would be crazy to see all the content that was put into DNF early in development : Shadowdane
  - how many different builds would there be? : Goblin au

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This is extremely cool. I'd love to see more devs do this

Sep 09, 2008 6:47pm PDT

This is extremely cool. I'd love to see more devs do this : derelict515

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Awesome idea.

Sep 09, 2008 5:42pm PDT

Awesome idea. : the_algor

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I heard you can only install a maximum of three prototypes at once, and after playing each one it physically dissolves that sector of your hard drive.

Sep 09, 2008 4:41pm PDT

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- hilarious. : mittense

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I bet these are more fun than Spore will ever be.

Sep 09, 2008 4:11pm PDT

I bet these are more fun than Spore will ever be. : zanzares

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By: TroZ x Show Full Post

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They look cool, but they aren't all new. Some have been available for at least a month.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17526175#itemanchor_17526175
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/1834258

Sep 09, 2008 4:10pm PDT

They look cool, but they aren't all new. Some have been available for at least a month. http://www.shack... : TroZ