{"id":214,"date":"2005-06-01T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=214"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:20:46","slug":"killer-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Killer Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=196\">this entry<\/a> on a Will Wright interview and also made mention of a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pqhp.com\/cmp\/gdctv\/\">video<\/a> (the Will Wright\/<em>Spore<\/em> one). Well, I tried to watch that video, couldn&#8217;t get it to play, then didn&#8217;t get back to it. Turns out I had browser issues. So yesterday I made my way back and watched it. <strong>Wow.<\/strong> It&#8217;s much better than I had imagined. But before you watch the video, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgchannel.com\/news\/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=4078\">this speculative article<\/a> on the future of character design\/creation. That way, when you watch all the cute characters  shown in the <em>Spore<\/em> demo, you&#8217;ll be aware that it doesn&#8217;t have to look &#8220;cartoony&#8221;. It could look as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazonsoul.com\/\">this<\/a> (mature content).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago I posted this entry on a Will Wright interview and also made mention of a link to a video (the Will Wright\/Spore one). Well, I tried to watch that video, couldn&#8217;t get it to play, then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[121,104,116],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-videogames","tag-virtualgoods","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}