Okay, well not exactly everything…I’m just listing it by the title that EA News gave the article. If you’ve been keeping track of the news coming from the DarkSpore scene, this interview covers the same topics, but for those just joining, give it a read and catch up with the one of the developers from the game, Michael Arsers:
Now, we’ve spoken a lot about Spore and how Darkspore differs from it, but can any of the content from the original Spore be transferred over in anyway to the new game?
Not directly, but what we are trying to do, we have a very active creative community in Spore, and in order to engage them we have put out some contests. We started them before the game development even started so we are calling them template challenges, we had the base creature we wanted as an NPC in the game and then we sent that out to the community and said “do whatever you want”, make some cool things of this base, and we had a ton of entries from these contests, we then looked through the best of the best, validated which ones would work with our animation and developed a process where you can import them into the game, and even now we have player created content showing up in Darkspore.