The Team Dakota guys have been live streaming the game for quite some time now. Unfortunately, I never get to catch it when its live, but they have a youtube channel where they upload all their live streams so you can watch them whenever you want.
The team usually picks a different genre or idea for a game for each live stream and then executes the build of that idea on the fly with pretty clear commentary of what is happening as they put these ideas together. From tower defense to survival horror, they have put together some really great experiences with their game. Some of my favorite live streams are where the team combs the alpha community for user generated games and then plays them.
There are many powerful tools at your disposal in Project Spark. You can start by choosing the size of map you want to create in. Then you can terraform the terrain, paint a texture on by hand, use the biome brush to generate textures and objects at the same time, or even randomly generate and populate your map in seconds. The amount of creative flexibility is astounding.
Level customization isn't where this game ends though for that merely scratches the surface of what this game can do. Everything in the game has a "brain" that you can customize with a visual programming code.
Most objects come with a "default brain", meaning if you choose a goblin it will have a default "bad guy" goblin brain so that you can just drop one in and start playing and it'll act in a certain predefined way. If that default brain just isn't doing it for you, you can keep what parts of it you like and then write in what you need, or you can clear out the whole thing and make it completely custom.
If you spend a long time creating a custom brain, you can also share that with the community for use in their games. On top of that, everything you create in this game can be shared across all platforms that the game is supported on. That means you can make something on the XBOX 360, continue to tweak it on Windows 8, and then play through the whole thing on XBOX ONE. That is amazing!
Community members can riff off of each other as well, doing "remixes" of each others ideas. This will be cool because if you have a great idea but maybe can't get it fully realized, another player could grab your idea and help you bring it to full realization. Or maybe you had a great idea to start with and then another player takes it and turns it into something you could have never imagined!
There is so much potential with this game. It really appeals to me because I am a very creative person. I cannot wait to just spend hours and hours expressing myself creatively through this game!
If you haven't seen much about this game I have to suggest that you catch up on the hour long live streams and really get into what this is all about. Not often does something so special come along, but this is one of those times. Project Spark is going to be special.
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