Spore

A sleep in and successful present giving to follow. My son has a new game on his computer, it’s called Spore and it is the most extraordinary bit of programming I’ve seen in a long time. It’s the ultimate God sim. You begin by creating a single cell animal and as time goes by you guide it as it evolves. The clever thing is that decisions you make early on are carried through to the end. It is the most fascinating thing to watch and is educational in many ways not least in that it teaches that in a project the decisions that you make early on carry consequences much later in its development.
I wonder if he will let me have go sometime.