After enough time with the game, it became clear that Project Spark is not so much a game as it is a game design/content-creation tool for Microsoft's Xbox One community, one for those patient enough to reap the rewards of approval and praise from the community. As such, it is definitely an acquired taste, but those who enjoy it will find a truly rewarding...
Project Spark2014
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Project Spark
2014 Microsoft Studios74Good
Playtime
LongTypically 40 hours
Playable on
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Details
- Launch
- October 7, 2014
- Developer
- Team Dakota
- Publisher
- Microsoft Studios
Overview
Project Spark brings imagination to life in an open-world, digital sandbox that enables anyone to create, play, and share whatever they can imagine. This is a powerful yet simple way to build and play your own worlds, stories, and games. See how a creator did what they did, and, when you’re ready, become a creator yourself. Project Spark provides a powerful creation engine that unlocks world building through intuitive sculpting tools to shape and paint a new world, as well as a simple yet incredibly powerful visual programming language to make anything happen. Share all of your creations with a dynamic community, and play what the community makes. Project Spark brings creation to life and presents endless opportunities for play. The game is no longer available for downloads, and as of August 12th 2016 the servers have been shut down.
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Reception
Press75
Good- Metacritic73from 26 reviews
- OpenCritic77from 21 reviews
Project Spark won't have you churning out incredible games like a development powerhouse. It will, however, provide you an accessible set of tools and assets to begin the process of bringing your dream games to life. This won't happen overnight, so plan on spending a lot of time here if you are ever going to make something memorable.
Project Spark is appreciated for its ambition, and even more appreciated for its price, but there are better tools out there for aspiring game makers and far better playing games that this one claims to replicate.
Project Spark is a fantastic creation tool with some severe growing pains. The complexity will scare off lots of creators, and the customization items locked behind a pay-wall will deter even more. I worry that no one will be creating gems on the system outside of a few dedicated creators. A game like this lives and dies on its community, and I am not...
So Project Spark then, isn't exactly a fun game. The fun here can only be found in creating and sharing games with the community online – and playing some of their best creations. Right now, it's early days, so the amount of decent games in Project Spark's community isn't exactly big. But potentially, Project Spark could see a wonderful library of creator-based...
