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Sunday, March 05, 2006 

Bizarrely immersive

If you're at all interested in AI, computer games, world building, evolution or a whole host of things tangentially related to the above, you really need to check out this video, essentially a demo with voice over for the game Spore (from the guy who brought you Sim City, Sim Earth, The Sims and so on - this game could be described as "Sim Life", or maybe "Sim Universe"). Yeah, it's 35 minutes long, but it's worth it (for the smooth jazz during the mating scenes, or the utterly mindboggling parts where Will Wright shows that you're not just playing on one city/continent/planet/galaxy alone).

There are only four words on our planet that can describe that game.

OMFG.

Hells yes. Are you one of the Js I know?

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