And when I didn’t initially find that in Spore…well, I felt kinda lost. And heck, who knew that I did? But it turns out that I’m used to a game telling me what to do-where things are, how things work, what order to do things in, how doing something will affect something else. I can see you’ve never suffered from options paralysis, Will. Or you can play without ever creating anything, instead importing what other people have created and playing with that (although you don’t ever play with other people-their work populates your game world if you turn that feature on, but the server just sucks that info down and then leaves you in peace). Or you can just play with the “Create” tools (creatures buildings air, land, and sea vehicles of military, economic, or religious varieties spaceships) and then “Share” what you’ve made in the Sporepedia, so other people can import it into their game. Or you can play them all repeatedly, but in different ways. Or you can play some over and over and never play others. After the first time you “Play” through the five more-or-less linear game phases in order (Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, Space), you never need to play them again. I mean, just consider Spore’s opening screen, where three ostensibly simple verbs-Play, Create, Share-are doorways to a dizzying array of 30-plus options ranging from playing the game to adding specific accessories to creatures. That’s not to say that I think you made something overly simplistic.
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