This is the third theme  to the blog project 52Games. It is called nature. The game that comes to my mind is Spore. It is a game from Will Wright the inventor of the Sims-Games and describes  the    und beschreibt  quasi den "Course of nature".  The game is separated into different parts. You start in the cell phase. Here you play an micro organism. You have to eat weaker organisms or plants. If you eat both you may become an omnivore later on. You earn DNA points through this. With them you can upgrade your organism. This happens through additional body parts you can place free on your creature. If you reach a certain size you get into the next phase. This is the creature phase. Depending on your previous choices you now have to eat meat, plants or both. You get some mission to get additional DNA points to upgrade your creature. Your goal is  to become an ally with others or  destroy them. If you have gained enough intelligence you get into the next phase. This  is the tribal phase. Here you are controlling a whole tribe, construct buildings, gather food. And ally with all other tribes or destroy them. Now you get into the civilisation phase. You start with a town that you control. You design units, construct buildings and make some earnings through spice geysers, which you need to conquer. After you control the whole planet you can build a spaceship top come to the last and never ending phase. It is the space phase. If you got an internet connection the game now downloads several creatures from other players randomly. The computer controls these in your game. You can now upgrade planets through terraforming. The planets have certain terraforming levels, higher levels can support more colonies. You can also find......

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A long, long time ago i was a little boy at about 12 years. I got a C64 at christmas, that changes my life.... I got a few games with the package so that i had quite a bit to discover. It was a time there also great title like Turican came on the market. Of cause i started programming in that time. It started with Assembler and Basic. I started programming a game, what else? This continued on the PC only the programming languages changed. At the beginning it was QBasic and Turbo Pascal, Nearly nobody heard of webpages in that time, cause there nearls wasn't any internet.... Yes, i know. It is nearly unbelievable.... The first internet access i had on an lan party. It was in the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium (Heide) and it was called GameCon . There you could play with others in lan for one to two weeks. Most people started there to chat, create an email, are a very small and simple webpage. The interest of the internet started there, but it took some time before i started to make some smaller and bigger pages. I was studying at the time a programmed Planetech. I programmed it because the other browsergames in that time are just to simple. Planetech now exists for over ten years. The first Version was written in Java, but cause of bad performance it never got published. The first live version was in PHP. Now the game is written in Ruby on Rails. I am a big fan of Ruby cause it makes most things quite easy. Cause of my interest of game and because i have a lot of other ideas i started Onlinegames Info. It is meant as a common ground for games. It gives all games common logins, messages, medals, support tickets, improvement suggestions, boards, blogs, friendlists, ... Additionally alliances......

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