Spore

Spore is a "massively single player" multi-genre game under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social land-walking creature, to levels of interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. The Spore Creature Creator will be released before the full version on June 17, 2008 so that users can create content for the game before the full version goes on sale. The full version of the game is due to be released on September 5 2008 in Europe, and September 7 2008 in North America and other territories. Spore was originally a working title, suggested by developer Ocean Quigley, for the game which was first referred to by the general public as Sim Everything. Even though Sim Everything was a first choice name for Wright,... full article at wikipedia