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The Wild Kingdom of “Spore”野生王国“孢子”

Spore孢子 looks to be a truly amazing game in the works from the original creators of看来是一个真正了不起的游戏，在工程从原始的创造者 Simcity模拟城市 . 。 It seems to combine elements of some other classic simulation strategy games such as这似乎相结合的要素其他一些经典的模拟策略游戏，如 Populous人口 and和 Civilization文明 , crossed with the more modern “god” games such as ，过与更现代的“神”等游戏 Impossible Creatures不可能的动物 and和 Black and White黑与白 . 。 One一个 of my brothers我的兄弟 and I played lots of strategy games growing up and while I don’t really make time to play often anymore (my work is enough of a challenge) I do kinda miss ‘em.和我打了很多策略游戏中成长，而我真的不腾出时间来发挥，往往不再（我的工作是足够的挑战）我kinda小姐'教统。

I used to play the little known我曾经发挥鲜为人知 Simlife simlife , released in 1992 by the same folks it was a sort of precursor to Spore and remains a personal sentimental favorite. ，发表在1992年由同一乡亲这是一个排序的前体，以孢子和个人仍然是一个感性的最爱。 Since I studied evolutionary genetics for my B.Sc.自从我研究了进化遗传我的理学士 at McGill’s在麦基尔的 laboratory for experimental evolution实验室的实验演变 I spent a lot of time at a microscope and in the genetics lab.我花了很多时间，在显微镜下，以及在遗传学实验室。 I was naturally interested in我当然有兴趣 evolutionary models using artificial life进化模式，使用人工生命 , particularly Tierra and Population (if you know where to find “Population” please let me know). ，尤其是提厄拉和人口（如果你知道在哪里可以找到“人口”请让我知道） 。 What was interesting with Simlife was the way you could inspect and modify是什么有趣的是，与simlife方式，你可以检查和修改 genes, the organisms or their environments基因，生物或其环境 making it a useful tool for understanding the causes and effects of biological evolution.使其成为一个有用的工具，为了解原因和影响的生物进化。 This also made it entirely inaccessible as a game for most folks without a biology degree who just wanted to have fun.这也发了言，它完全无法作为一个游戏，为大多数人没有一个生物学的程度，谁只想得到乐趣。 Those interested in giving it a go I’m happy to lend my copy, which can still run fine on windows:有兴趣者赋予它转到我很高兴地借给我的副本，仍可以运行于Windows的罚款：

Spore, however, looks like a LOT of FUN for pretty much anyone.孢子，不过，看起来像很多乐趣，为非常人。 My concern with Spore is that it is less about understanding evolutionary processes and more about playing god, and thus may appeal to the我所关注的与孢子是，这是少讲了解进化过程和更多关于公平的上帝，从而可能向上诉 intelligent design智能设计 crowd, possibly even helping their人群，甚至可能帮助他们 campaign of misinformation运动的错误信息 . 。 I’ll reserve judgement until I can actually can touch and feel this game.我将储备的判断，直到我可以，其实可以接触，并认为这游戏。

You can check out the game in detail in the excellent presentation below, I recommend at least watching the opening sequence which reminded me of one of my favorite all-time stories:您可以检查出来的游戏，详列于出色地介绍了下面，我建议至少收看开幕序列提醒我，一个我最喜爱的全时间的故事： The Planiverse该planiverse : ：

Regardless of whether the game is reasonably educational or downright misleading regarding the不论是在合理的游戏教育或彻头彻尾的误导有关 process of biological evolution过程中生物进化 , the first thing I will do in Spore is try to create or “evolve” a ，第一件事，我会做的孢子是在尝试创建或“演变”一 Flying Spaghetti Monster意大利面条的飞行怪物 . 。