{"id":984,"date":"2008-07-02T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/02\/spore-creature-creator-verdict\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:53:11","slug":"spore-creature-creator-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/02\/spore-creature-creator-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Spore Creature Creator Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this thing. It&#8217;s a neat little toy, and it&#8217;s hard for me to put into words just how critical this game could be for the future of gaming as a mainstream pastime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2008\/07\/01\/rps-verdict-spore-creature-creator\/\">So I&#8217;ll let four people smarter than me sound off.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soundbites from the Rock, Paper, Shotgun summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that cruel fate of the excellent. If I paint a crude stickman, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re unlikely to criticise the details. But if I paint something near photorealistic, and the ears are a bit off, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more likely to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shame about the ears.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Alec: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said it before, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth noting that The Sims totally seemed a hardcore affair to start with. There was real PC geekiness to it. It crossed over somewhat unexpectedly, after several months. The same could happen with Spore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Kieron: It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t game design &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s autobiography.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jim: Hey, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the themes of my book!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this thing. It&#8217;s a neat little toy, and it&#8217;s hard for me to put into words just how critical this game could be for the future of gaming as a mainstream pastime. So I&#8217;ll let four people smarter than me sound off. Soundbites from the Rock, Paper, Shotgun summary: John: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that cruel [&hellip;]<\/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":[14,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}