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EA/Maxis releases nerdy Spore prototypes; Catherine overcome with excitement

A few weeks back, I had the oppor­tu­nity to hear Sim­C­ity cre­ator Will Wright speak as part of my employer’s con­tri­bu­tion to the Van­cou­ver Art Gallery’s KRAZY! exhibit. Later, I wrote on the Mas­ters of Dig­i­tal Media group blog about my fas­ci­na­tion with Wright’s visual aids, a vari­ety of cel­lu­lar automata and grav­ity sim­u­la­tions, pro­to­types for dif­fer­ent kinds of inter­ac­tions in EA/Maxis’ upcom­ing “every­thing sim­u­la­tor” Spore.

Yes­ter­day, Slash­dot noted that EA had released a cou­ple of the pro­grams Wright demoed as free down­loads and appar­ently, more are on the way. So that’s pretty awesome.

Down­load BIOME and Par­ti­cle­Man from Spore.com.