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EA Announces Create, A Game About...Creation

It'll be better than Kodu.

It's hard to see past the Zerg rush, but before Blizzard's RTS hit the streets, one of the big things we talked about was customizable play--the concepts you see in games like LittleBigPlanet or Kodu. With neither of these titles in EA's stable, it was about time that we had a game like Create, an EA Play Label joint that looks to be a watered down version of those aforementioned titles.

In Create, you'll design open environments with tools like brushes and textures, and solve individual "level-based challenges" created by designers. The latter action will, in turn, earn players even more tools for design. Warning, though: Create is a baby-friendly title. It probably won't allow us the opportunity to build a killer triple-decker ramp off of The Mona Lisa's schnoz.
  
“Create uses families’ imaginations to develop new ways to play together that are both fun and challenging," Harvey Elliot, GM at EA Bright Light said in a statement. “We wanted to design a game where the entire family can explore, decorate, and solve challenges where no solution is wrong and the only limit is the imagination." 
 
 

 

In a cool twist, you'll be able to upload your creations and challenges and share them with friends on the Xbox 360, Mac, PS3, and PC versions of Create. Said buds can then "remix" the levels and add in dongs, curse words, set new challenges based on your old ones, or do whatever else they desire.

Create is coming to the PS3, Macintosh, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii this November. The PS3 version will support Move control. No word on the 360 version supporting Kinect. 
 

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comments are comments

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 “We wanted to design a game where the entire family can explore, decorate, and solve challenges where no solution is wrong and the only limit is the imagination."
 
So it's Scribblenauts?

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More creation games, is this the new thing

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hmm
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Looks pretty bad, not feelin the new user-made content fad.
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Doesn't sound interesting to me.

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I'll stick with Little Big Planet 2 when it comes out.

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I wish I was creative enough to make anything decent in these types of games. Oh well.

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I'd rather build games on my pc from scratch, but I see the appeal if this gets enough support.

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We're all right, this isn't any different than The Sims or LittleBigPlanet.

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Creationings

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looks bad

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It better not end up like spore.

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I think EA is forgetting that they need a mascot for games in order for them to sell

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As much as I like user-content driven titles, I feel like the market for them is getting over-saturated at this point. I mean, do we really need yet another "Make your own game" type game?

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hmm. this looks kinda like its shamelessly ripping off littlebigplanet, but it still looks kinda fun. I'll keep my eye on it.

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It's so original lol...

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This looks uninteresting.

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Hm, this doesn't interest me. I did try Kodu, but didn't actually make anything meaningful.

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It looks like a kids game that no child can comprehend. This whole thing seems a little misguided to me.

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Will there be a LBP style story/mission mode? Or is this just a game about creating games? The game game. Because I have an idea for a game, then. You play a creative director hiring game developers, artists, testers, etc and telling them what to make the game be. And you win if they can release your game within two years of the initial release date.

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I have absolutely no interest in this... honestly I'm getting tired of game creation toolkits being sold as games in themselves.  I get that a good number of people like the creation aspects, but I think gameplay quality is suffering as a result of this trend.  Other than seeing what craziness people could get up to in LBP, that game was just not that much fun to play.

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Seems pretty generic.

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I'll just leave this here to say that sponsored quests are a questionable idea, and a quest to click on an advertisement is definitely over the line.

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Haha the second I read the headline I thought that I hope its better than Kodu, then I read the strapline.

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sounds spectacular.....

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Hopefully it turns out decent

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This kind of looks like residue from the Sims-esque creation tool set or whatever it was a while back. Maybe that was just what became of The Sims Online, but I honestly can't remember.
 
Regardless, the image looks interesting, but I'm not sure what to make of this other than I probably won't be playing it. Unfortunate.

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Looks like it could be decent, but also looks like it could be a very bad rendition of LittleBigPlanet.

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Dude, uninspiring.

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Looks pretty interesting.

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I love how this story has just become a dumping ground for that quest. Gr8 stuff. 

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this will be unnecessarily stupid

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Never been a fan of creation games. I prefer actually playing games.

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Ah EA, forever ripping-off another company.

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This seems as good a place as any to both comment on a story and use a relevantly huge word: creationism

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It looks like it's just another variation of Spore, without all the hype?
Meh it's not directed towards folk my age anyway!

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I can't say  I'm that interested, but who knows. Might be good.

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Wundabar!

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This looks horrible.

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Wait and see I guess.
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Might have to see more of it to determine if its decent or not. Look how well kodu turned out.
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That is a terrible name.

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Hey Mac, glad to see you.

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more like worst buy

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ummmm thats not looking too good

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Looks super original.

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there are much better games to play

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Sounds like a shitty LBP, no thank you.