User-generated content has been a part of online computer gaming long before YouTube. Back in the '70s, homegrown text-based multi-user dungeon, or MUD, games began cropping up on networks.

The game’s ratings have been hammered by critics of the installation restriction, with nearly 2,500 of the 2,900 Amazon reviewers giving Spore only one star out of five. Advertisement ...

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He admits Spore is a game that deals with intelligent design. He acknowledges the religious component. But he takes pains to point out that it’s a caricature of reality, like all his games.

A version of this article appeared in the January 21, 2009 edition of Digital Directions as ‘Spore’ Plays Games With Evolution Theory. Most Popular Stories. Open image caption.