www.spore.com

Joystiq.com had some URLs to interviews with Wright
If you want to, you can skip looking at Joystiq.com because I sent you the URLs below.

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From _New York Times_
Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of Cubism, the rapid-fire cuts introduced by MTV and the channel-surfing of the 80’s. Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom: the satellites tracking in on license-plate numbers in the spy movies; the Google maps in which a few clicks take you from a view of an entire region to the roof of your... [clip]
Link _New York Times_ for the rest of that long interview

Following links to an Interview with Wright. www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08...8games.html

The link to the _New York Times_ article perhaps changes into a private, for pay thing after a few days.

quote:
from _The New Yorker_
[clip]or the past six years, Wright has been working on a new game, which will be released in 2007. It is anticipated with something like the interest with which writers in Paris in the early twenties awaited Joyce’s “Ulysses.” At first, Wright called the project Sim Everything, but a few years ago he settled on the name Spore. The game draws on the theory of natural selection. It seeks to replicate algorithmically the conditions by which evolution works,[clip]

Link the rest of that article from _The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/fact/cont...106fa_fact