{"id":11436,"date":"2008-09-05T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/09\/05\/11436.html"},"modified":"2008-09-05T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:19:03","slug":"congratulations-youre-on-the-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/09\/05\/congratulations-youre-on-the-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations! You&#8217;re on the path to sentience!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spore_(2008_video_game)\">Spore<\/a> is finally being released!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it's already available in much of the rest of the world, but the North American and Asia\/Pacific release date is this coming Sunday, September 7.<\/p>\n<p>If it's not already available in your region, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/getspore\">pre-order it<\/a> from the website. For Windows, there's an interesting \"pre-load\" option, where you can download the software now and then you can activate it on Sunday. Note that for Mac, you have to pre-order from a different website (follow links from the Spore site), and they don't seem to have the pre-load option.<\/p>\n<p>I'm very excited. If you don't hear from me next week, maybe someone should drop me a note reminding me to eat and sleep occasionally?<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I just found out that EA has been occasionally releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/comm\/prototypes\">prototypes<\/a> of various concepts along the development path. (Windows only, apparently.) For most people, there won't be any point in looking at the prototypes now that the game itself has arrived; still, an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-10033443-52.html\">article about the prototypes<\/a> makes it sound like a pretty interesting process, and I'm pleased that EA released some of the prototypes along the way even though I didn't know about it and couldn't have tried them on a Mac.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spore is finally being released! Apparently it&#8217;s already available in much of the rest of the world, but the North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}