I don’t play video games. Since I was a kid, I’ve had such a complete ineptitude at anything game-realated that I’ve resigned myself to a world without PlayStations, X-Boxes or anything remotely related.

One notable exception was Will Wright’s SimCity. Now that was a game that I could get into. It didn’t depend on anything remotely approaching coordination, which means that instead of being dismal at it, I could at last be average.

Will Wright’s next game is Spore - and it’s all about evolution. With seamless gameplay through an exceedingly detailed history, you get to start with a single-celled organism and proceed all the way through to space travel and planetary simulation.