I have been playing Spore! I have been hating Spore! Oh, is Spore a terrible game and a waste of possibly the best game concept ever, and that’s something I’ll be expanding on more next week. This week, though, I’m going to talk about one of the very first sequences you see when you start a game of Spore: a very pretty crystal-studded asteroid flits past a star, approaches a planet, breaks up in the atmosphere and plops down into the ocean, where it releases cells that form the basis of organic life and starts the first stage of the game.