Spore moment
Spore moment by plakboek Whilst playing the computer game Spore by EA games, I documented part of my 'evolutionary' journey with some screen shots. Last year I managed to assemble a nice collection whilst playing the computer game Oblivion. I wish I had thought of this earlier and taken more.
This is the space stage. The costume that I have built here seems clash of Roman Centurion with Buck Rogers influences. Good evolutionary advice from my son was to keep the eyes together and say away from eye stalks as it makes wearing hats and helmets a pain. Perhaps I should have also lost the tusks and wings.
Whilst some licence is taken with the relative sizes of the planets, it is really nice to see in this game how they depict the different habitation space orbits around a star with red, green and blue zones, how comet tails point away from the star and how the shadows and light change as planets slowly rotate and orbit the star. Landing on the surface of a planet, it was nice to see that they mirror this dance with the objects in the sky.
You are permitted to smile at the space ship that I built for myself to zoom around the universe and my jugging to get a good picture angle. It took a while to build this particular model inspired by the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. I even managed to include an set of flashing navigation lights by building the main saucer around an embedded police light bar.
Using a SETI tool and some huge star maps, I enjoyed looking around for intelligent life. At one point I was defending myself from some hostile ancient technology hiding in the remains of their ruined city. OK, I don't blame these little bots for their irritation as I try to position myself for a good screenshot angle whilst testing my small laser on them. This wasn't the only time I was distracted by camera angles. Took me ages to line up a shot of the sun rising in the front of my spaceship because the planet keep orbiting the sun and rotating (as they do).
You can view a slideshow of my Spore game pictures here.