Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, is working on an incredible new game that I'm really excited about. The concept is called Spore, and essentially, gameplay proceeds in stages, getting more and more complex. As your character evolves, the scale changes, much like the film, Powers Of 10. You start as a single-celled lifeform trying to avoid being eaten by other single-celled organisms (think Pac-Man), and over time the game progresses all the way to controlling an interplanetary culture that interacts with other races (created by other players elsewhere on the internet). GameSpy published a detailed review of the game that explains the concept much better than I can, and GamingSteve has some screenshots grabbed from the introduction Wright gave at Game Developer's Conference last week. It's encouraging how complete and polished the demo appears to be — otherwise I'd worry that the game was too ambitious to be practical. However, it seems like it's actually happening, so now all that's left to do is to wait eagerly for its release.