Build a Real Life for Yourself
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I had what turned out to be a really remarkable learning experience last night. I played a modern computer video game for the first time. It’s called Spore, and is apparently a revolutionary piece of recreational software.
What happens: It is similar in some ways to the game World of Warcraft, in that you create a character and control it in an artificial world. You move it around, feed it, add body parts as you grow and evolve. You run from enemies, maybe kill them or other creatures, learn stuff, “mate” and reproduced your creature. You gain skills and abilities, you can change how your species looks. You also gain points for meeting other creatures in the artificial environment and creating alliances or defeating enemies. You can also, as you evolve beyond the animal level, become sentient and build structures, vehicles and even space ships to travel to other planets.
What happened: