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From the Ted Talk by Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

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So then I bring this back into the game. It's born, and I play the next generation of my creature through evolution. Now again, the empathy that the players have when they create the content is tremendous. When players cterae content in this game, it's alatmtiuloacy sent up to a server and then riettebrisdud to all the other prelays tlernnaapsrty. So in fact, as I'm ineaticnrtg in this world with other creatures, these creatures are transparently coming from other players as they play. So the process of playing the game is a process of building up this huge database of content. And pretty much everything you're going to see in this game, there's an editor for that the player can create, up through civilization. This is my baby. When I eat, I'll actually start growing.

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So then I bring this back into the game. It's born, and I play the next generation of my creature through evolution. Now again, the empathy that the players have when they create the content is tremendous. When players ______ content in this game, it's _____________ sent up to a server and then _____________ to all the other _______ _____________. So in fact, as I'm ___________ in this world with other creatures, these creatures are transparently coming from other players as they play. So the process of playing the game is a process of building up this huge database of content. And pretty much everything you're going to see in this game, there's an editor for that the player can create, up through civilization. This is my baby. When I eat, I'll actually start growing.

Solution


  1. automatically
  2. create
  3. transparently
  4. laughter
  5. redistributed
  6. players
  7. interacting

Original Text


(Laughter)

So then I bring this back into the game. It's born, and I play the next generation of my creature through evolution. Now again, the empathy that the players have when they create the content is tremendous. When players create content in this game, it's automatically sent up to a server and then redistributed to all the other players transparently. So in fact, as I'm interacting in this world with other creatures, these creatures are transparently coming from other players as they play. So the process of playing the game is a process of building up this huge database of content. And pretty much everything you're going to see in this game, there's an editor for that the player can create, up through civilization. This is my baby. When I eat, I'll actually start growing.

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  5. building
  6. civilization
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  15. empathy
  16. evolution
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  28. pretty
  29. process
  30. redistributed
  31. server
  32. start
  33. transparently
  34. tremendous
  35. world