Will Wright, creator of The Sims and the entire line of ‘sim’ games, has unveiled his newest project, called Spore. Spore looks to be the god game to end all god games, allowing you to create your own single-celled organism and evolve all the way up to galactic conquest.

It’s ambitious to say the least.

There’s a page of notes here that explains more about the concept; Will’s “code vs. content” discussion is an interesting one. Today games are filled with high-resolution textures, music and pre-rendered video; There’s very little acutal code (when you look at how much data comprises an average game; 1 or more CDs worth). Spore looks to turn the ratio in the other direction, where code outweighs content.

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