Something fun to share comparing 2008’s Spore to the upcoming game No Man’s Sky. An interesting read for all Spore fans!

Surely you remember Spore? Designed by Will Wright, the creator ofSimCity and The Sims, Spore was supposed to simulate the evolution of life, from single-celled organisms to small creatures to tribal human societies to an advanced civilization exploring outer space. It was largely a single-player game, but the community of online-connected players would seed everyone’s games with the life forms that were created in other games—a kind of Darwinian version of intelligent design.

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