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Written on: May 21, 2008 by Alterego

29 Comments

Next are you going to tell me that chocobos don't exist?

Teh Guest... 3 words...it's a game... If you would like reality, then please go look into a microscope and play with your eyeless microbes there.

Man there are no paragraphs. Why?

Microbes don't have eyes! Nisbet had the idea that photosynthesis might have begun as phototaxis - simple movement by an organism in response to stimulation by light. This notion comes back around to the elementary fact that when you live at a hydrothermal vent, it pays to know where you are. Bacteria don't have eves like shrimp to gauge their location, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are blind. Many microbes can sense light. Some marsh dwellers, for example, move down through the sediments to the layer in which visible light Is low but, infrared light still penetrates; this happens to be the place where they find the most food. Together, Nisbet and Van Dover hashed out the following scenario for the origin of photosynthesis: Imagine a hydrothermal vent on the early Earth. At first the microbes feeding on sulfides around the vent can't sense their position, and sometimes then. drift away into the cold and freeze; sometimes they get too close to the mouth of the chimney and fry But some of the bacteria carry molecules that serendipitously absorb the light emitted by the vent. Gradually, descendants of these bacteria develop the ability to use the light to keep themselves in a safe place (or even to figure out where the most food is on the vents), and these bacteria thrive. Some millions of years later, this story goes, a few of these phototaxis-capable bacteria drift up from the dark depths of the ocean to shallow hot springs, where they can continue on their old diet of sulfides. Now though, they no longer live under a faint drizzle of light from vents but under a torrent of light coming from the sun. Thanks to their vent ancestry, they can already trap photons; all they have to do now is become sensitive to visible light and then find a way to harness this captured energy, by evolving a system of molecules that can convert the captured energy into fuel. Modern photosynthesis is born. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n11_v17/ai_18762288/pg_6 How could a particle what is smaller houndres times than a cell resemble to mammal like eye what consists of millions of cells. And not all microbes have them only the autotrophs, and they can only sense photons, light or darkness, and if they got into a permanent darkness, they become heterotrophs, never able to photosynthesize again. And in Spore? All of the microbes are heterotrophs, and chasing their prey, using their little "eyes". Why don't people accept that microbes don't even need eyes to survive, some of them can sense photons, but they never use this ability to "hunt" other microbes, they can only react with their proximate environment.

Real cellular creatures do have "eyes" or more correctly called "red spots" they see light, and do look alot like eyes. from the customization screen on some other videos you can see that your cell doesn't have to have but it is more helpfull if it does. It also goes along with the Maxis "style" of looking attractivly colorfull or "childish" if it actully looked like something in a microscope it would get VERY boring. (trust me, Cellular biology/Marine biology/Zoology student of 2006-2008)

One thing I really want to punch someone over at EA for: EYES on everything. WHY the hell are there eyes on single-cell organisms??? It really makes this stage of the game too childish for me to even want to play. If I wanted googley-eyes on everything, I'd go to an arts & crafts store...

When I click on HERE ,, then i go to Youtube and there come's / his video has been removed by the user./ What can I do ?:P Btw I Think we would expect more videos now one whit creature,Tribe.City ................... :D

Choice. Still cartoony IMO but i can live with it :P. Did any else notice the music in the video is that of the region view in Sim City 4?

Cant wait i got a count down going on in my veoh page lol lucky711: dude your vid is the exact same as the above vid

Man, I'm still down about them cutting out the water phase. At the end of the video, they showed how you go directly from Cell to Creature. :(

heres a great video with some new footage i have never seen, and mabe you haven't too! it just came out today so here it is :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcOWXeqyYk

guy removed the youtube vid T.T

I can't see the youtube creature video that chrislove01 found.. x.x It's been removed.. I wanted to see this! Fake or not..

I can't find the youtube creature editor video.. x.x;; WHY!?

I don't think you actually play the underwater phase. When you get to a certain point in cell and your creature getsdbig enough it probably shows a cut scene of it coming onto land.

Finally, i get to see some footage of a creature coming onto land

great new graphics, sigh.... my bad pc probably wont be able to play them though :(

So E+12 is the rating?

+12 Is the ESRB rating? Dunno if it was actually ESRM though =P

i think its fake if you look around the edges of the platform or the creatures abit of a pixel outline but u decide for yourslf

yah, I found this video a yesterday! If you'll notis one of the last clips, you'll see when another creature trys to attack the player, it got zaped by some type of force field. Must be one of the cooler parts in Spore; you can kind of see the out lines of the part surrounding the player. I have seen many other strange parts, such as the ability to turn invisable and fire some sort of projectile, but I wonder if this force field can still be used even out of the tide pool phase.

Hmm... I heard they cut the Water Creature Phase and maybe they didn't but mayb instead they added it to the Tide Pool Phase.

oustanding graphics!!!! tide pool phase much better!

WATER CREATURES??!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!!! i love therm!!!!!!!!

I saw this video couple days ago, nothing new.