User-generated future for gaming

From BBC News

Gamers today, instead of being thrown into a universe created by teams of designers, can grow their own world, inhabited by any shape of creature they can imagine.

"The future of software development is user-created content", says David Fleck, from Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life.

"First and foremost it allows them to exploit their creative energies and display all the wonderful things that they're good at doing, whether it's manufacturing clothing or architecture.

Read the full article 

PS: Includes a video interview with collaborative gaming guru Will Wright who is developing Spore, a game where a single cell must evolve to become an inteligent species.

Spore's code means it can animate anything you could imagine.

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