The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
Original Source:
Spore: An oral history by Jay Castello / Designroom (free registration required)
The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
Original Source:
Spore: An oral history by Jay Castello / Designroom (free registration required)
Exact same thing that happened with No Man’s Sky. That first trailer was so obviously curated out-the-wazoo, and I remember people insisting it was the last game they’d ever need to play based on it alone. And we all know what happened when that one came out.
I don’t know how much of that was developer hubris and how much publisher (Sony) pression to deliver. Internet historian made great video about NMS, and at least from dev perspective it was a clusterfuck of massive overprimising and bad circumstances.