Spore (video game)

Spore is a forthcoming computer game by Will Wright, the creator of The Sims and the SimCity series, which has currently peaked at SimCity 4. Wright has aspired to the creation of video games which mimic or replicate life, in an entertaining fashion, and the trend of the SimCity games was towards greater accuracy, realism, depth of control, and detail.

In this sense, Spore is a departure from the trend. In the game, the player takes control of a single cell, and guides its evolution through a vast time span, eventually becoming an animal and a civilization. Accordingly, Spore implicitly accepts the theory of evolution as truth, and rejects the creationary time scale. Spore follows in a line of simulation games which glorify evolution as truth and the pinnacle of biological science - the computer game Civilization does the same - but Spore is especially worrying for the central role which evolution plays in the computer game's premise.