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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Maxis Sim games, Will Wright, SimEarth, Spore, SimCity, Simlish, SimCopter, SimTower, Streets of SimCity, Spore Creatures, Full Tilt! Pinball, SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest, SimAnt, Spore: Galactic Adventures, SimAnimals, El-Fish, Spore Origins, Sid Meier's SimGolf, Mike Perry, List of Sim video games, SimTown, SimTunes, SimFarm, SimPark, SimSafari, SimLife, SimMars, List of Maxis games, SimsVille, RoboSport, Rome: Pathway to Power, Jeff Braun, SimHealth, SimRefinery, Widget Workshop. Excerpt: Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore. A special edition of the game, Spore: Galactic Edition, additionally includes a Making of Spore DVD video, How to Build a Better Being DVD video by National Geographic Channel, The Art of Spore hardback mini-book, a fold-out Spore poster and a 100-page Galactic Handbook published by Prima Games. As part of its license, Electronic Arts released Spore Origins, an arcade-style game for mobile devices, and Spore Creatures, a light RPG for the Nintendo DS. Spore: Galactic Adventures, an expansion pack for the PC game, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena for Wii and Nintendo DS respectively, is in the fall 2009 lineup, and Spore Creature Keeper have been announced as part of the 2009 lineup. Covering many genres including action, real-time strategy, and RPG, Spore allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay and procedural generation. Throughout each stage, players are able to use...

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