Comments on: 'Spore,' the movie?

If Electronic Arts has its way, the long-awaited evolution game could one day be a movie or a TV show, says the game's designer.

[kevinmmm]

That partly explains the licence agreement for Spore's Creature Creator in which EA has ownership of any creature you create with their software. What is Microsoft owned every Word doc or Autodesk every drawing?

[Unsean]

Let's see if I understand this...if I were to purchase Spore, use it's Creature Creator to create a create?a ability integral to the game, I assume?then EA has ownership of the creature I created?

They're not giving this game away, right? That's like creating something in, let's say Carrara or Hexagon (both 3D modeling programs) and losing the rights to those creations because you used either Hexagon or Carrara.

Now I understand that there will probably not be a Carrara: The Movie anytime soon, but that doesn't change the fact that if I create something with a product I have paid for that expressed purpose then the end result is mine.

Or at least give people a credit for creating this or that character if it is used in the film; otherwise Electronic Arts is doing little more than stealing, something most corporations don't encourage.

[ralfthedog]

"It's certainly not clear what the story behind a Spore movie would be. To be sure, the game provides a clear story arc, since it tasks players with evolving from primordial ooze all the way out into space. But one wonders what kind of emotional growth a Spore protagonist might go through in a film. "

Easy, make it a series of short stories. Start with a short sequence of goo. Then go to an animal story (give it a twist at the end.) Next you do a tribal level story. Do a pre-spaceflight techno story and finish with some kind of grand space opera.

Unfortunately it would need to be an animated flick.

@Unsean,

I am quite sure EA will give credit to the people who created the creatures used in the film. They will invite them to the premiere and give them the red carpet treatment, probably with all the staged interviews they could pull off. Lots of talk about the diverse talent in the spore community.

Think of all the wonderful publicity.