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EA's Spore Coming to Mac

Thursday January 17, 2008 3:09 am PST by Arnold Kim

EA announced at Macworld that they would be releasing Spore later this year simultaneously for PC and Mac.

Spore is your own personal universe in a box. In this universe you can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations and even sculpt entire worlds. In Spore you have a variety of creation tools at your disposal that allow you to customize nearly aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. While Spore is a single player game, your creations and other players' creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play.


Spore will use TransGaming's technology to allow EA to quickly make a Mac version of the game:

"The technology wrapper goes around (the software), and traps the (code) calls native to the Windows environment, and converts them to the correct calls for Mac," McCombe said. "It's not a complete code rewrite. It's more wrapper technology with some customer work."


The official site has more information, screenshots and movies.
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irishgrizzly
53 months ago
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JSchwage
53 months ago
Yes! Sweet! I've been waiting for this game for years now. Unfortunately, I doubt it'll run well on my MacBook. Guess I'll have to get the Windows version.
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Fearless Leader
53 months ago
I want this game real bad, but we knew this already didn't we?
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ronainsworth68
53 months ago
It's about time, I thought they had given up on this game.
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ReanimationLP
53 months ago
Heh, I personally thought this game died out on the vine.

Maybe its like Duke Nukem Forever. :D
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Dagless
53 months ago
That was obvious really. It's coming out on every platform known to man, it's the next "The Sims".

I hope they make some kind of web interface to link them all. Say you have it on your Mac/PC and you're away. It would be nice to log onto some site and do a little tweaking, or whatever you do in Spore. That'd push it outside the box.
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WildPalms
53 months ago

Heh, I personally thought this game died out on the vine.

Maybe its like Duke Nukem Forever. :D


Duke Nukem wha??
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Consultant
53 months ago

Duke Nukem wha??


That was a game that has been in development since 1997...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever

Currently their site still says the following... LOL
"No, you cannot pre-order the game. If you see some online store saying "We are taking pre-orders", they're just trying to get your money (they usually also make up their own supposed "insider release date info", too). There is no release date set, we are not taking pre-orders for the game. End of story."

Spore will be great on multi platforms! Will definitely get it.
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Cougarcat
53 months ago
Nice. What's notable isn't that Spore is coming to the mac (almost all of Maxis' games have made it, and The Sims is a gigantic hit on the mac) but that it's going to be a simultaneous release. Let's hope EA delivers on its promises.
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irishgrizzly
53 months ago

Nice. What's notable isn't that Spore is coming to the mac (almost all of Maxis' games have made it, and The Sims is a gigantic hit on the mac) but that it's going to be a simultaneous release. Let's hope EA delivers on its promises.


Yeah, that's what I though – simultaneous release ftw! :o
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