I know enough on game math programing and physics programming, collision detection and all that cool stuff to make semi decent AI

jackuul wrote:Can you make chocolate fudge, or pudding, or anything like that? If so, you're on the team.

fudge no. pudding yes.

and i happen to know a wholesaler of pop/chips/candy...so, Rockstar and Mountain Dew for EVERYBODY!

Okay, you're on the team. But learn fudge. And supplies of German Bavarian Chocolate. Chocoholics Unite!

elbrad wrote:i'll maintain my position as coffee brewer, cheese slicer, geek houser and body-painter.

"I made a little space for the cheese slices." Points for getting the reference.

Actually, this is all great. Even if this groundswell of support (I notice the positive votes jumped up another two since I last posted) doesn't sway Maxis, maybe this willingness on our part to make it ourselves WILL. Someone, somewhere at Maxis is hopefully sitting up and taking notice. Either we all get jobs at Maxis because they like our dedication, or Maxis releases Science Spore because of our enthusiasm, or we make Open-Source Science Spore ourselves.
...or, I suppose, we realize how far we all probably live from each other and how much money we don't have and we give in to discouragement and nothing at all happens. I suppose that's a possibility.

But @#$% that; we needs negative thinking? Let's get designing!

Things are made over the internet every day.

PHPBB3 was built over the course of many years by people all over the world.

We'd need to figure out our own ways of procedural graphical generation.

rocketgirl wrote:

elbrad wrote:i'll maintain my position as coffee brewer, cheese slicer, geek houser and body-painter.

"I made a little space for the cheese slices." Points for getting the reference.

BtVS - said to Willow in a dream sequence.

I would like my points please. Points i will share with Google.

I just had an idea.

What if OpenSporce could be run without an operating system? It's own lightweight kernel, and all you have to do is pop the disk in at boot-up.

Of course then comes the 'well how do you save games?'. I know there is something out there in linux that can read the windows file formats, and also the mac formats. Why not have it just save to a folder asked? Besides that, running on macs and windows would be priority. But it gave me a cool idea for computers that have more limited resources. Slap in SeaMonkey and people can browse the net on opensporce.

elbrad wrote:
BtVS - said to Willow in a dream sequence.

I would like my points please. Points i will share with Google.

Well, done.

Here'z your points:

It's funny, I was thinking "Spore Science" would be a great name for an expansion pack.

I wanna see non-cutesy, Barlowe-like predators tearing up herbivores on realistic veldts with baobab trees. I want physics models, and I want populations to evolve using the vast processing power of the huge pool of machines running it.

Many of the ideas in Space would be fairly simple to implement, such as infinite numbers of procedural planets based on pseudorandom number generators. Such a system would be ideal for a game like Eve, or for some sort of real RTS game (not the kiddified stuff EA is putting out these days...)

Most likely, some other smaller studio is going to take the good ideas and run with them. It's not going to be EA.

Rest in pieces, Maxis.

ghadis wrote:
Most likely, some other smaller studio is going to take the good ideas and run with them. It's not going to be EA.

Rest in pieces, Maxis.

You know, I've been thinking much the same things these last few days: Maxis is finished, much like Sierra; burn brightly, then put out a few stinkers, slowly fade away. And that some other studio will look at Spore and say, "What? Really? We can do better." And they will.

28 to 2, 7 undecided.

Only 2 people wouldn't buy Science Spore, out of 37 people voting. Even if we give all the undecideds to the negative camp, that's still 3 to 1 in favor of Science Spore being made. If we divide the undecideds evenly, giving the odd one out to the negatives, that's 5 to 1. And if we discard the undecideds entirely...that's 14 to 1 in favor of playing Science Spore.

MAXIS, I HOPE YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION!

There'z an untapped market here; even if you make a buttload of cash off Cute Spore, making Science Spore will getcha that nice, shiny boat to put next to the Ferrari. Just sayin'.

Or, to put it another way: *bump*

rocketgirl wrote:...discard the undecideds entirely...

I'm not sure how I feel about that...

Flip Flop Flip Flop - it's not just my Duckafoogle that does it.

I would be more than happy to plunk down another $50 for a "Science Spore" - then just let my kids have at the current version, which I find incredibly fun, but lacking in depth.

You know, I already have my server skeleton able to plunk in my modified version of phpbb3. If anyone's like, really serious about it, I can go and just connect a new forum to the database.

In fact, I think I will just for the practice. If you want the addy, send a PM.