Spore - Kotaku

posts about #spore more →
EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
See The GLAAD On Games Panel For Yourself
GLAAD Panel: Pearls of Wisdom And Points Of Discussion
Your Comments Fuel Gay Gaming Conference
When Robot Chicken And Spore Collide
Maybe One Day Everyone's Spore Creatures Will Look This Good
Robot Chicken + Spore = New Series About Giant Robots [Update]
There Are Now Over 100,000,000 Spore Creatures
Will Wright: Why Spore Wasn't Released On 360, PS3

Your version of Internet Explorer is not supported. Please upgrade to the most recent version in order to view comments.

Dsmvwl Admin Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×

diagorus
10/02/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
When its released on DVD/BluRay will I be able to play it on more than one system?
Reply

diagorus was starred diagorus was unstarred

DarkWolf7
10/02/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
So.... the big question is, how can you go about making a 120 minute movie about a single cell organism that evolves into a space-traveling penis monster?

Will Ron Jeremy get a role in said movie...?
Reply

thespyderboy promoted this comment Edited by DarkWolf7 at 10/02/09 6:38 AM DarkWolf7 was starred DarkWolf7 was unstarred

Tanneseph
10/02/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
I swear, for every 100 videogame movie deals I hear made, only 1 ever hits the screen.

And that one is really awful.

I wonder why I bother to read movie deal stories, sometimes.
Reply

thespyderboy promoted this comment Tanneseph was starred Tanneseph was unstarred

Twik63
10/01/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
maybe a documentary on the game itself? idk how a real movie could possibly work.
Reply

Sarcasmancer promoted this comment Twik63 was starred Twik63 was unstarred

Sarcasmancer
10/01/09

@Twik63: From what I understand, Spore under performed when it was released. I think EA is hoping that a kid-friendly flick (something along the lines of Shrek or Ice Age) will help build an audience for the IP.
Reply

Edited by Sarcasmancer at 10/01/09 11:32 PM Sarcasmancer was starred Sarcasmancer was unstarred

Gruntybreath
10/01/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
Slated for release in 2026...
Reply

Gruntybreath was starred Gruntybreath was unstarred

OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
10/01/09

@Gruntybreath: It will also be incredibly ambitious but fall apart in the execution.
Reply

OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
10/01/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
Hooray! Talking penis monsters!
Reply

Sobersean
10/01/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
Rosie O'Donnell in the lead role according to that screenshot.
Reply

Sobersean was starred Sobersean was unstarred

(Zombie) Goldwings - Zombie antidote. Attempt 24... somethings happening!
10/01/09

@Sobersean: Rosie is not that sexy :P
Reply

Michael Dukakis promoted this comment

glardchia
10/01/09

In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
Things to do:
1. Create game based on evolution - CHECK
2. Create movie based on that game - CHECK
3. Piss off radical creationists - IN PROGRESS
Reply

glardchia was starred glardchia was unstarred

syafiqjabar of Mars
10/01/09

@glardchia: Weird enough, creationist does not care for Spore at all. (Anti-Spore website was an elaborate Rickroll). Will Wright said some of his his fellow atheists (that he described as "militant") complained about the games use of religion from the tribal stage onwards.
Reply

diagorus promoted this comment

diagorus
10/02/09

@syafiqjabar of Mars: As an atheist I had more complaints about the cell stage lasting for 5 minutes, the draconian drm, and the all around terrible gameplay.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what a "militant" atheist is. Writing books and debating in universities is militant?
Reply

diagorus was starred diagorus was unstarred

Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
08/29/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
The man screwed up Spore, a game that Maxis really needed to do well and develop the type of community around it that Sims had and he shat all over a system that EA is making multi-millions of dollars off of.

GEE I WONDER WHY HE GOT LAID OFF GUYZ.
Reply

DaveKap
08/29/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
Hecker announced on his personal site his follow up project, an indie game called SpyParty, which he describes as "a very different multiplayer espionage game" that apparently offers a level of excitement on par with ski jumping away from massive explosions.

No go back and look. He says it is less ski-jumping away from explosions and more about classy espionage spies.
Reply

DaveKap was starred DaveKap was unstarred

anduin1
08/28/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
He deserves it, he was complicit in what happened to spore, possibly one of the most overhyped games in HISTORY only behind Daikatana. He deserves to think long and hard about what he needs to do in his life.
Reply

Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment anduin1 was starred anduin1 was unstarred

Lezard
08/28/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
Well, this is one guy that won't be getting a job at Nintendo any time soon. I feel sorry for him for losing his job, but he probably burned a few bridges while he was still employed.
Reply

Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment Lezard was starred Lezard was unstarred

Yetanotheruninspiredscreename
08/28/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Hey people want to know who dumbed down spore and got rid of all the cool stuff Will was talking about in earlier videos shown off?

It was Chris Hecker.

[forum.spore.com]

"Chris Hecker was having strong misgivings about how appealing all this hard science would be to the wider world. "I was the founding member of the 'cute' team," he says with pride. "Ocean [Quigley, Spore's art director] and Will were really the founding members of the 'science' team. Ocean would make the cell game look exactly like a petri dish with all these to-scale animals and Will would say, 'That's the greatest thing I've ever seen!' and some of us were thinking, 'I'm not sure about that.'"
Reply

Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment

RockyRan
08/28/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
Aw, I was expecting a long tirade on how EA is "a piece of shit" now that he was laid off. He has disappointed :(
Reply

RockyRan was starred RockyRan was unstarred

MasterOmega
08/28/09

In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
I can sum up everybody that has gotten laid off in the last year in the game industry...they actually know what the F**k they are doing and get paid a halfway decent wage. It's the same with every single layoff..they are cutting the legs out from under the talent that makes enough to actually support their family, and keeps a bunch of intern amatuers on staff because they work for peanuts.

Good thing about all this, is that hopefullly....just hopefully, these people that get laid off and do like Chris and start their own game devs, smaller so they don't have to deal with jokers like EA and Activision. Benefits: Keep a small staff, keep a focused game, watch the overhead...oh yeah, and just make great, passionate games.
Reply

nipsen promoted this comment MasterOmega was starred MasterOmega was unstarred

Earlier threads | All threads | Show hidden threads | Show featured threads only | Start a new discussion

SUBSCRIBE TO Kotaku

Login

Reset Password

Register

Submit Your Comment