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Bad Game Pitch #1: EA Spore-ts

Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Sept. 5, 2008

33 comments

Two-Sport skeleton athlete, Bones Jackson.

OK, this is something that's been milling around in my head for a few days (it even made it to the office to-do whiteboard alongside "more beers"), but a report from Kotaku's Brian Crecente on EA considering the future of Spore and the possibility of using it as a platform for other, different types of games cemented it in my head.

So, if I may make what may be the first of many Bad Game Pitches here, I present the following.

EA Spore-ts

OK, every month or two, someone jumps on a message board and types some form of this sentence: "Hey, remember Mutant League Football?" This is almost always met with "dude, they should make another one of those!"

The time is now.

Mutants are played out.

The platform is Spore.

At the beginning of the game you'd work with a basic, low number of DNA points and attempt to create a creature that might be able to play a low-rules game of football. When you first take this team onto the field, chances are it'll get crushed. But you'll learn how to work your basic creature and earn DNA points along the way.

Can this devil frog catch a pass, or what?

DNA points, obviously, would be used to enhance and upgrade your different players. Naturally, you'd want your quarterback creature to eventually develop terrific vision and a cannon arm. Your wide receivers could eventually get sticky hands and extending arms that reach out and snag passes out of the sky with ease. Linemen would develop into bulkier, spiked creatures. Brain power and upgrades would be required to ensure that your players could remember routes and coverage assignments. And your own personal strengths as a player would end up determining what your optimum football team would excel in.

The creatures you create would, of course, be uploaded into the EA Spore-ts-o-pedia, which would be used to generate random teams on the fly for you to play against as you attempt to make all other football teams extinct.

I don't know about you, but I would spend all my DNA points to create a reasonable facsimile of Bones Jackson.

Filed under : Spore, Mutant League Football, Bones Jackson, PC

34 Comments

hide
on Sept. 5, 2008

They should, not make another one of those.

I wish you the best of luck creating a Bones Jackson though.

Clint
on Sept. 5, 2008

The scary part is:

Spore-ts actually sounds like fun.

Do it. Giant Bomb Game Studios. Go.

Shasam
on Sept. 5, 2008

What a good bad game idea.

Gre
on Sept. 5, 2008

That actually sounds like a great idea. From what I've heard, the Spore creature creator is almost too good for the game itself. It would actually be smart for EA to use that platform for other games, and sports games seem to be a great fit. Heck, if Spore were moddable enough, someone could make this game now, just like they made Griffball for Halo.

Sure a spore-based mutant football game would really hard to balance, but it's supposed to be about fun, not balance!

XXXXX
on Sept. 5, 2008

Bad Game Pitch #2

Spore Road Rash.

MasterSplinter
on Sept. 5, 2008

How about Zack & Wiki Make a Spore-no.

Do I really need to type a description?

Elk
on Sept. 5, 2008

2 Yard penalty to Jeff for spitting

Milkman
on Sept. 5, 2008

Perfect. And since its EA, you can just slap the NFL liscense on there and there ya go, Sporedden NFL 09.

Gre
on Sept. 5, 2008

...How about Zack & Wiki Make a Spore-no.

That's already been done. Go to youtube.

VoidPresence
on Sept. 5, 2008

Madden: "so HERE's a guy who can pitch a game almost as well as Bones Jackson can hike a golf ball" /wake-up

thatguy
on Sept. 5, 2008

Holy shit, this seriously needs to be a game.

LordAndrew is online
on Sept. 5, 2008

Spore creatures are the new Miis.
Go on, EA. Make it happen.

Torb
on Sept. 5, 2008

Wow...that actually sounds pretty freakin amazing. Stick a couple lines of code from Madden in there and poof, football spore.

TheGreatGuero
on Sept. 5, 2008

Bad game pitch? Jeff, I would totally play this! And dude, I'm not really even a football fan.

Krelle
on Sept. 5, 2008

I couldnt care less about American Football (as a swede).

But yeah, Id play this.

Alphazero
on Sept. 5, 2008

Coming Holiday 2009 from Carbon Neutral Games.

I'd play it.

eternalmatt
on Sept. 5, 2008

I searched the Sporepedia to see if someone created a Bones Jackson creature.
I was sadly dissapointed.

Then I thought, "What about a Gerstmann creature?"
I was let down again. Why hasn't anyone created a Gerstmann?

MrKlorox
on Sept. 5, 2008

I gotta tell a friend about this idea. He'll definitely get a kick out of it.

AlucardaLaCarte
on Sept. 5, 2008

I disagree wholeheartedly!...I think Jeff should ONLY speak in third-person.

Stokes
on Sept. 5, 2008

Why not a similar Mutant League Hockey remake?

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