Spore

Guys we face a conundrum; if Will Wright has been created various Sims his whole gaming career and he just made SimEverything, what's left for him to do? Nothing? Is Sims__your name here____ done? New franchise? Retirement?

He'll probably improve upon Spore, either with expansion packs, or a whole new game, like Spore 2 or something like that. Whos to say for sure though...

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"Spore... The final frontier"

I believe he's said he has other game ideas that drift away from or improve on his used ideas.
Don't worry about it, I don't think he'll be retiring anytime soon, he loves what he does.

I'd cry if he retired. He makes some of the BEST games out there.

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"Spore... The final frontier"

The year is 2018, all the conspiracy theorists gave up on the world ending theories and killed them selves after 2012 came and went.(but that's a different story) After the huge success that was SPORE MAXIS begins development of SPORE 2. SPORE2, includes graphics rivaling that of HL3. The editors have been greatly improved, for example. All editors now have sub-editor, giving the players control over the parts themselves. With a easy to use interface, making SPORE2's editors the easiest to use modeling program ever created. SPORE2 features an amazing amount of stars, planets, creatures. So much that SPORE2 requires 2 galaxies to hold everything on a realistic scale. SPORE2 includes 5 new editors. One of them is the Solar system editor. Players have control of all the solar system features, from planets, to asteroid belts, comets. And the size of the star. EA has refused to give any info to the SPORE fans. Other than one screenshot and a 5 minute presentation. EA has announced SPORE2 to release in 2690. SPORE fans are pissed, most of them kill themselves. EA gets sued for Billions.


Yes, I was THAT bored. xD

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I doubt Will Wright claims ownership to the Sim Franchise anymore, if you remember Maxis was merged in the EA Sims Division. This means that Will Wright is not required for the creation of future Sim games, including Spore.

You must also realise that Will Wright surely did not single handedly come up with every idea his company has produced. In fact, its the sad truth that Will Wright, as much as a Genuis as he is does not play a very large part.

Don't worry, Spore and Sims for a long time!

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you never know, after the time of Spore(and any expansions) he may go to help with the sims 3

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Well, Will might work on a few of the expansions for spore, but he has said several times that he hates the idea of expansion packs, its mainly EA that does the expansion packs, unless its a pig part of the game. So if there is going to be Water and Flying creatures and other editors in the future, than Will might work on those, but if its just a crummy expansion that just gives you more editor parts, thats mostly EAs doing. Maxis remains fairly independent from EA so expect nothing but good from Mr. Wright.

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Maxis is a part of EA since 1998, it was owned by EA even before he made the first Sims, this was only a financially beneficial change that they put it into a different division of EA, now.
But Will Wright didn't ever work on any sequels, or expansion packs, not even on The Sims 2, or at least only with a few advices. If you watch the credits for The Sims 2, he is only mentioned as "special thanks for making The Sims".
His job is to create new games, and genres,(usually both at the same time), not to add x feature, and implement y graphical engine.


Afaik, after he made Spore, he will retire, because this will be the sum of all of his previous works, so this would be pointless for him t

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Yes, Will only provides the idea and him and him staff work together to come up with ideas based around this central idea, then they see what they can and can't (and cutting improbable ideas) do and make the best game possible utilizing as many ideas as they can.
When you think about it, though, without Will's mind we wouldn't have the basis for these ideas, at least not to be made into the games we know and love. Will has said he has other ideas for games, sure he might cut himself out of the game making process if he retires, but with how successful he is we'll still see games based on his ideas if he ever decides to sell them.
That or he could become a writer, which would probably kick some ass.

I am still hopeing for him to work on simcity 5. He Needs to have a hand in on making the simcity games. He did not work on this last simcity if you can call it that. And look what we got a big pile of crap called Societies. So just praying that he work on simcity after Spore is done.

I dare say his next project will be Spore related. After all, he's already stated that he wants to bring spore to other platforms, as well as expand the franchise into other medias, such as trading cards (Similar to the ones we have here).

And who knows, maybe a mockumentary on evolution?

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He didn't work on Sim City 4 either, and this was the best SimCity ever.

Please, he is a game designer, why would he personally make trading cards, and console ports? Maybe Maxis will work on them, but usually even the company is different for such works.

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Maybe, but I never said he'd personally make them, he'd at least have an advisory role and oversee the franchise in it's early days. Then I dare say he'd move onto another project.

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Well its true that he is creating the new genres and... ehm... You can call me a sci-fi maniac and you will be right but i think i have got a good idea of what will Will Wright do after this...

I know he is the man with simulators but there is an option that you will be able to play you character in spore in any role.... I mean like an RPG.

You would start as a civil (just space phase) and you would be able to do whatever you want. Like: Be builder and help to build the cities of your kind. Or become a pilot on a planet or in a space fleet. (This is my basic favorite) I mean this game... or expansion pack would be working like real life. For example: You are a Space pilot on a big space ship and you start a war against an other players creature. You go out and help to win the battle, after this you become the squad leader and you can choose your friends in the squad if you want. If you work well you become the captain of a smaller space ship. (or you can start on that ship but not like pilot just as an engineer or turet man.) So you continue to work and you will be promoted again and get a bigger ship, then an even bigger one and after a time you find yourself in the front of a big screen where you can rule the movements of a fleet.

Of course this means more work with the creators: You need to create ships from multiple class and you may have to do pistols for ground assaults but is'nt this what we love in this game?

/drowns in drool

Sounds like a brilliant idea! I would say it's a bit too ambitious at the moment, but then I remember that this is WW and Maxis, the people bringing us a game I thought was way too ambitious when I first thought a similar (but still different) concept back in 2004 :P

(For those who wish to know, I thought of a concept of evolving a species from pre-stone age to modern day and beyond (No space exploration though). Empire Earth exists I know, but I was thinking a lot more in depth like inventing fire and the wheel etc)

I have a ton of other ideas for games I'd love to see in the future. Here's hoping!

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They would have to release it separatly, and it would probably take a minimum of 2 years, that would take an extreme amount of work, especially since youre designing the buildings, but they would have to change a whole load of it. That isn't Will Wrights style anyway

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I can kind of imagine something like Second Life, except not so rediculously crummy. A game that, for the most part, is built by the players, constantly evolving and such. Spore seems to be a lot about letting the user make what they want; perhaps WW will continue further on in this direction.

Thx

But if you got ideas it think it would be the best to post them on maxis forums or send them to maxis on e-mail. I will do the same if i can write it down a little bit more... ehm... i dont know how to say: with more closely look on the smaler parts of the plan.