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CNET News - Project Spark: Xbox One

2013-06-10
we share a common passion to put the ability to create in the hands of everyone and the culmination of our work is project spark I'm proud to be here with one of our designers Claude Jerome to share with you for the very first time how you can start with nothing and bring an amazing game to life how you can turn making a game into a game itself and how when you are ready you can share your game with everyone everywhere on any screen Claude let's show them how spark show me rivers make that mountains good now let's add some texture show me the Arctic hmm maybe woodland all right now let's set the mood night evening day four o'clock perfect now that's a good start using smart glass I can go into sculpting and really put some personal touches on this world so let's start with putting in a mountain to define our backdrop and then we'll go in and we'll put a protective moat around here good and then let's finish off with a bridge to go across and then with the touch of a button Claude is jumping into our world now in just one minute we were able to make something that looks great now let's build upon that and create a simple game in our world step one our home base so we'll choose this village I can place this anywhere I'd like I'll put it right here this will be our town square alright step 2 let's add some behaviors now everything in project spark has a brain that can be changed let's bring something to life take this rock for instance we can make this rock become a pet with something we already built so the brain says when the rock detects me it'll move towards me and jump pretty simple and just like that I've made myself a new friend come on little buddy let's rock and roll it's step 3 the enemy now we need some bad guys to attack this village goblin camp house we deal with these guys plot hero with a sword I think it's time for the rock to step it up this fighter brain I got from the community is a blast let's see what it does to the Drakh yeah get him rock man nice moves rock man now we gave this seed of a game idea to the team before the show to see what it could grow into let's check out how other creators in project spark can remix and build on an idea alright starts off familiar enough there's our town square that meteor too I'm guessing there's more here let's go over what we got an army of pissed-off goblins nice one all right I'm gonna charge into the valley below here Claud I can morph the landscape so I'll cover you from up here you know I think I'm gonna need some more help take these guys on all right hang tight this fireball carve out a huge lava pit Oh that'll slow them down Wow anything goes in this game even flying goblins does it give you anything else you can use flying Gulman that's nothing it's time to bust out rock man badass upgrade rock man becomes rock neck come on Dave let's finish this fight right
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