{"id":4418,"date":"2012-03-07T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:32:23","slug":"cthulhu-invades-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/cthulhu-invades-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu invades Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The perils of Spore<\/a>, a popular videogame with evolutionary aspects built in…<\/p>\n

The [videogaming experience] that sticks in my mind was a result of my incessant playing with Spore’s creature creation tools. I spent one afternoon creating monsters from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, looking up their descriptions and trying to build creatures that perfectly matched Lovecraft’s vision. I felt at the time that I’d had little success, since Spore’s cutesy look left most of them looking more cuddly than terrifying.<\/p>\n

I had completely forgotten this exercise as I played through the main game a few weeks later. My new species was [now autonomously] developing toward a tribal culture, and were learning to hunt in a pack and find fruit. Suddenly a huge shadow passed overhead, and with a ground-shaking crash, the great lord Cthulhu himself landed in front of us.<\/p>\n

You see, Spore would randomly seed the game world with creatures you and your friends had made, sometimes in groups, and sometimes as larger solitary creatures. This was an [game-evolved] “epic” instance of Cthulhu, perhaps 100 feet tall. What had looked cute when I had made it was suddenly one of the scariest things I had ever seen. The hulking green monstrosity then proceeded to devour my entire tribe.<\/p>\n

That’s right, in my game of Spore I had a budding civilisation wiped out by Cthulhu himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The perils of Spore, a popular videogame with evolutionary aspects built in… The [videogaming experience] that sticks in my mind …<\/p>\n

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