GDC: Lessons Learned From Spore: Its Science And More

As part of the Serious Games Summit, journalist and and consultant Margaret Robertson investigated Maxis' Spore in the context of serious games -- and in that exploration, made smart insights into the more general interest and debate around the title.

Challenged at the end of her presentation in the Q&A session that Spore was never intended to be a serious game, Robertson admitted that she should have been more up front about that.