• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It was supposed to be an evolution engine. That’s how they developed it and how the tech demos and marketing pushed it.

    But then it ended up being simplified and gamified so much that it basically didn’t matter what you did, so the only fun part was making your creatures look like penises.

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      8 hours ago

      LMAO— ok, true…

      But I actually bought the game (yes, once upon a time people used money and exchanged it for software) and the original version was just the evolution engine. There was actually some controversy at the time that the game didn’t actually contain any “game“. Eventually, further updates turned it into the “penis creation engine“ you described.

      But who doesn’t love a lovely, well designed penis?

      It really was a shame that they never turned it into a “best designed penis competition” game. I believe I would’ve been very good at that.

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        4 hours ago

        The game was hobbled in development. I remember reading the early development stories and stuff as it was being made and they wanted to make a serious evolution sim. EA basically forced them to make it a light hearted kiddie game and so it pretty much died on release.