Posted July 26, 2015
I'd love the idea of terraforming a planet with emphasis on emergent systems and balancing ecosystems. Sortof a build your own planet and all of it's ecosystems sim. In a way I hoped Spore would have some of this dynamic, but it was totally absent in the gameplay. Waking Mars had elements of what I think is an excellent emergent system - and I'd think it'd be very cool on an even larger scale.
The way that Spore would let you design your own creatures (and plants in an unofficial way) was very cool - but there was no real underlying system of how everything interacted with each other. In Waking Mars your ecosystem actually interacts with the other elements - so it's more of the template that I'm thinking of. I'd love to see something like that with different terrain, biomes, etc, and help design that world kindof like you might build a city in Sim City.
The way that Spore would let you design your own creatures (and plants in an unofficial way) was very cool - but there was no real underlying system of how everything interacted with each other. In Waking Mars your ecosystem actually interacts with the other elements - so it's more of the template that I'm thinking of. I'd love to see something like that with different terrain, biomes, etc, and help design that world kindof like you might build a city in Sim City.