My first galactic adventure
Last week I had the opportunity to visit Maxis for a couple of days to take an early look at their new expansion for Spore, Galactic Adventures. It was a busy two days packed with producer interviews as well as some extensive hands-on training with the new Adventure Creator. The Creator allows users to produce their own adventures from scratch, much like the Creature Creator but on a much grander scale. In these adventures your captain can beam down to planets and take on a variety of missions. After getting the hang of the Adventure Creator I put together a quick little adventure of my own.
In my first adventure the player’s captain beams down to a purple planet and is greeted by the leader of a colony under siege by hostile natives. During the siege, the colony’s deep space antenna array was damaged, preventing them from calling on their fleet for assistance. Therefore it’s up to the player’s captain to sneak past the enemy camp and fix the antenna array, located in a nearby valley. Once the captain fixes the antenna, a friendly space ship arrives and attacks the enemy camp. Upon the captain’s return to the colony he/she is greeted as a hero complete with dancing creatures, fireworks, and confetti. Originally I had the goal set so the captain had to destroy the enemy camp. But I wanted to make more of a stealthy adventure so I edited it so the captain had to sneak around, get to the antenna and let the incoming friendly space ship annihilate the enemy camp.
Anyway, that gives you a small taste of what’s possible with the Adventure Creator. There’s so much potential here that I can’t wait until the expansion releases to see what the Spore community can come up with. Like creations in Spore, adventures can be shared through the Sporepedia and the Spore web site so there will never be a shortage of adventures to keep your captain busy.
