Spore

Spore, electronic artificial-life game, designed by American computer programmer Will Wright, who created SimCity and other life simulation games for his company Maxis Software. Spore was released by the American video-game company Electronic Arts in 2008 for Microsoft Corporation’s Windows OS and Apple Inc.’s Mac OS. Spore lets players create a species from the most basic elements, starting out with a single-celled organism. Spore combines real-time strategy with the total control characteristic of the “god...