This "Creativity" article explores how Electronic Arts' new game "Spore" puts creativity in the hands of gamers.
"Spore is essentially a series of editors, the first of which, Creature Creator, was released in June on the Spore website. With these editors, gamers can create organisms and direct their evolution from single cell to full-on creatures. But that's just the beginning. Once a species has been born, players can help them evolve from primitive beginnings, all the way to space explorers. If someone wants to dominate the universe, he can build a space armada and blow up planets. But peaceful exploration is also possible. Gamers can also just spend all of their time making creatures, which are then uploaded into the Spore universe. Players can use their creations, or ready-made designs that ship with the game, or browse the myriad community-created entities in an online database, Sporepedia."
To read the entire article which includes an interview with Spore's creator, Will Wright, who also developed the popular Sims, go to Creativity Online by clicking below:
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Spore is a wonderful tool to engage minds in scientific principles such as evolution and the process of modification to a species over time known simply as 'survival of the fittest'... AND ITS FUN:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02spor.html
"...By night, Dr. Near, an assistant professor at Yale, is a heavy-duty gamer, steering tanks or playing football on his computer. This afternoon his two lives have come together. On his laptop swims a strange fishlike creature, with a jaw that snaps sideways and skin the color of green sea glass..."
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