Today's most retrospective video: Spore's GDC 2005 unveiling

by Ross Miller { Feb 13th 2008 at 1:00AM }

Although you might be feeling a Spore overload as of late, we thought it'd be fun to take a moment and look back at Spore from GDC 2005, three years ago, and see how the game looked then.

After the break, footage from the unveiling. We've also embedded The Powers of Ten, a 1977 short film documentary that reportedly inspired Will Wright to make the game.

Check out all our extensive coverage of Will Wright's Spore!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mezzanine @ Feb 13th 2008 1:04AM

Yo I gotz mad luv fo da powerz of ten.

Chris @ Feb 13th 2008 1:31AM

I would love to see a side by side comparison of where it was then vs where it is now, maybe it would help me figure out what they've been doing the last three years. If the game was that amazing back then, I can't wait for what it's going to be when it comes out.

Lurker28 @ Feb 13th 2008 1:39AM

There is a lot, you were not even seeing a "game" when Spore was unveiled in 2005. You were seeing small iterations of what Will Wright had as an idea.

There procedural texturing, animations, pollination system, etc. was not even done....a game is not all about graphics. There is a lot of stuff you did not see, that just wasn't ready nor was it "fun."

Creature all the rules and content, bringing it together to create a cohesive experience could of taken quite a long long time. Spore is probably the most revolutionary game since Doom.

They wanted to make sure the gamer had hours and hours of gameplay

Cale @ Feb 13th 2008 1:38AM

Would best buy or wal-mart have a better price for that zoom lens

ThornedVenom @ Feb 13th 2008 2:11AM

Thank you Will Wright for innovating the videogame industry.

Back when the concept of the Sims was announced, he was mocked all over the place not by individuals, but by companies who had refused to publish his idea. They could not conceive the possibility of a game with no goals to win nor end to it.

Thank you for proving that games are not only "immersive movies", but that they're also virtual playsets with unlimited potential.