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Speaking to SPOnG, Sims creator Will Wright has revealed plans to take Spore beyond the PC, to console and handheld platforms.
“We’re looking at all the platforms for Spore, because we’re thinking about Spore as a franchise, not as a PC game,” Wright told SPOnG. “We’re going to do the PC game first, but really, what we’re trying to launch is an entire franchise that will be all across platforms.“
Wright went on to discuss how the game might be adapted to fit each platform.
“It will probably take very different forms depending on the platforms. We might even pull out parts of the game – so you might be playing part of the game on a handheld platform, you might be playing the entire game but maybe more avatar-based on a console.“
So what does the acclaimed games creator think of the new crop of consoles?
“I think there’s a really interesting distinction between the Wii and the Xbox 360 and PS3,” said Wright. “Something like the Wii offers a lot of interesting creative opportunities for the editors, with the controller.“
Wright also highlighted the lack of mouse control with consoles, stating that “a console controller really makes you want the game avatar-based.” According to Wright, this shouldn’t be a big problem though: “With Spore, about half the game is avatar-based already – the creature game and the space game – and it would be pretty easy for us to make the intermediate levels avatar-based, so from the beginning, we thought about how we could move Spore to platforms including consoles.“
We’ll bring you all the news on console versions of Spore when they’re announced.
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