Playing with Spore and messin’ with our gene pool
Play is to our time what work was to the Industrial Society: our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value.
Now Spore has arrived in North America to mess with our gene pool. The multi-genre “massively single-player online game” allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. Long way from Sim City.
