Do this count as a scientific game or is it just pure hogwash pretending to understand how evolution work?
>>16555472Hogwash. They had two teams of people working on it, people who wanted it to be realistic and people who wanted to make it cute. The cute people won. It's a game so you're playing god, evolution definitely doesn't work that way. But, had the realistic people won then you'd have to do things like start out designing the biomolecules of life first, which would have had implications later in the game.
>>16555472>>16555506It's literally as based in reality as real evolution aka completely made up
>>16555552Evolution is indeed fake as fuck
>>16555472Are you retarded or something?
>>16555552>>16555554what the fuck are people like you doing on the science boardyou can prove evolution with a basic thought experiment. which owl is more likely to survive in a snowy environment with predators: a black owl, or a white owl? the white owl, which means it's also more likely to have the chance to spread its genes. imagine this kind of thing happening over millions and millions of years and you can see how things would drastically change over timeevolution is the most rational explanation for why things are the way they are
>>16555472it could have been scientific if there wasn't a space stage that is entirely based on science fiction and not real world dynamics
>>16555506well the sad part is that in order to market and sell a game like this, it has to be cute in order to attract a wider audience. most people are not really interested in clear cut science. realism doesn't sell nor does it make for interesting gameplayi think spore is a useful tool though to get children interested in biology regardless of how accurate it actually is. if spore was a truly accurate simulation of biology, none of us would have ever heard about it and this conversation never would have happened
>>16555585You can prove very miniscule forms of evolution. There is zero evidence for large evolutionary changes.
>>16555590As opposed to every other stage?
>>16555552>>16555642I'm with you, people who believe in evolution unironically believe their grandparents were monkeys who dwelled in jungles and that they are just a tiny piece of meat inside the skull
>>16555642rare mutations can cause drastic changes over timei would be very interested to hear what your personal theory of the development of life is. and don't say god, because you and i both know that isn't any more plausible than evolution
>>16555646what does this last part mean? do you not believe in the human brain? or do you believe that consciousness is stored externally in some astral realm? do you actually find that more believable than evolution
>>16555506The problem is that most of the people on the 'realistic' side were useless 'idea guys' who had no appreciation for how ridiculously complicated some of the ideas they were pitching would be to actually execute. Cute side won out because while their ideas were less interesting and ambitious, they were doable.
>>16555594the original announcement and demo were much more serious in tone. they still generated lots of interestpeople were shocked when the game turned out to be a cartoony joke instead of a kinda grim alien life simulator. there was a big stink about it
>>16555662Redditor faggots think science stopped 30 years ago and have no idea that almost every study done since states that there is basically no evidence for large evolutionary changes and that we almost certainly didn't evolve from apes. The exact same thing happens with studies done on IQ and socioeconomics. Turns out everything they preached in the 80s and 90s was false and that it almost all comes down to genetics which can largely be broken down on broad racial lines.
>>16555722can you link or provide the title of one of such studies that states "there is basically no evidence for large evolutionary changes"i am willing to be open minded if you can back up your claim
>>16555472It's very scientific, don't you remember picking your penis size in the gene editor? You did pick large like everyone else right?
>>16555472Spore makes me depressed because I followed it from day 0, watching their grainy low-res recording of a projector in a conference room. Whatever alpha they demonstrated had underwater cities/animals and a brain as a separate body part. So you could stay in the creature stage or even just stay a fish if you wanted, like there were multiple multiple paths of play beyond "eat meat or dance."
