Found via the excellent Audio Lemon
Even being part of the first generation that will play games there whole life I am not that big of a gamer any more though I do play. Games like most pieces of pop culture tend to be mostly derivative and disposable but I will always be interested when something attempts or succeeds in rising above a simple distraction to art that is innovative, changes the way you look at part of the world or elicits a emotion response. I hope Spore is one of those games. It approach to the idea of evolution could not be duplicated in another medium. I am excited like when I was a kid. I have been playing with the creature creator and it is great fun.
One of the most interesting things about Spore is Brain Eno creating (if that is the right word) the sound track for spore. Eno and Will Wright are to of the biggest innovators of the past few decades. And they seem a good fit together. Ad generative music might be a perfect fit for a game base on a generative model. I am a fan of of a having a little randomness in all things so I hope it works. It does raise all kinds of philosophical questions about generative art of any kind of art rather than creating it in a more traditional way. And I think that is a good thing to think about and bring into debate.
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