SNAPS: Kurt's Spore

For Kurt's 12th birthday, he requested that we celebrate at home and for wifey to cook his favorite food, and because he actually expected me to buy him the gift he wanted - the PC game Spore - which I did get (the original of course).

Spore, Will Wright's "multi-genre massively single-player metaverse god game," is actually not just for PC, but can also be installed in a Mac. It's not really a new game, but it somehow offers evolution/biology learning experience.

And so while Kurt and his cousins are figuring out the game, I did install Spore in my MacBook, and played for about an hour.

You start Spore by choosing a planet (mine's named Jupates) and then swimming through a tidepool for food as a cell. You go through five stages of growth, until you reach the space stage.

Spore lets you create and customize many of its game elements, such as creatures, buildings, vehicles, and spaceships.

A few cell adventures, eating meat and fellow cells, advanced me to the next "creature" stage.

Now with feet, though not exactly a pretty creature, this "omnivore" explores his land (actually it's Marcus's) for more food and territory.

And so my kids and I are now Spore-addicted.


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