Angel Station: SPORE!!!

http://walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com/2008/09/spore.html

Link: Angel Station: SPORE!!!.

Spore, the world's most eagerly anticipated video game ever, releases this weekend.

I wrote it.

Or rather, I wrote all the dialog and some of the situations in the space game, which is the last— the ultimate, if you will— of five interlinked games that make up Spore. (There's not a lot of call for dialog in most of the games, since characters won't yet have evolved language.)

When you encounter some fifteen-eyed, twenty-tentacled Purple People Eater lecturing you from the command center of its UFO, you're talking to me, baby!

Faithful readers may recall, earlier in the year, my mention of a Mystery Project. Spore was it.

Spore was designed by Will Wright, who had earlier created The Sims, which is the world's most popular computer game ever....

(((Okay, I didn't write the dialog for SPORE. I can, however, brag that I was once in a two-man chili cookoff with Walter Jon Williams.)))