{"id":1062,"date":"2008-09-22T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/22\/the-media-loves-spore\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:55:39","slug":"the-media-loves-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/22\/the-media-loves-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Loves Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll have more to say once my review gets uploaded, but I wonder if Spore<\/em> isn’t the biggest PC title ever released. It will certainly be dismissed by a lot of hardcore gamers, but it has been written about in all the major newspapers, many important newsblogs, and has been getting extended coverage in all the gaming media. This month’s PC Gamer has huge review from EIC Kristen Salvatore, Game Spy and 1up have had “Spore Days”…<\/p>\n

The game media stuff isn’t anything new, of course. You will get the same thing when Blizzard’s next three games come out. But there won’t be the same mainstream media attention.<\/p>\n

Part of it is that Will Wright is such a captivating figure. He’s a nerd, but he’s personable. A little mad. The internet has made the game one of the most anticipated titles ever since Wright’s first presentation about content creation in Spore<\/em>. If he weren’t as good as salesman as he is, would Spore<\/em> have been the hit that is undoubtedly is?<\/p>\n

Spore is also, of course, getting this sort of attention because it is both innovative and topical. The innovation is mostly in the cute factor of creature creation – and Sporn – but the topicality of teaching evolution and\/or creation (especially in light of a major party Vice Presidential candidate who believes the literal truth of Genesis) is what adds the extra oomph. It’s the same reason why the mainstream media loves Serious Games in a way that most gamers don’t. Why work hard to divine a connection between a game and the real world when it’s right there in the readme? Somehow people write about Ghost Town<\/em> without worrying about that.<\/p>\n

Once the review is up, I’ll tell you what I think about Spore<\/em>. Do seek out Salvatore’s long review, though. I don’t agree with everything she says, but there’s a lot to chew on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll have more to say once my review gets uploaded, but I wonder if Spore isn’t the biggest PC title ever released. It will certainly be dismissed by a lot of hardcore gamers, but it has been written about in all the major newspapers, many important newsblogs, and has been getting extended coverage in all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,86,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-h8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}