The upcoming Spore expansion pack Galactic Adventures is on its way to store shelves, and in case you didn't know, it's the one that allows you to create your own in-game stories (galactic adventures, you might say) using its various creation tools. But besides making adventures for your private amusement, or to share with other players, this expansion also comes with pre-designed missions you can play through. Presumably, with the creation tools, you'll be able to develop your own tales, as funny or outrageous as you'd like. To showcase that ability, Maxis has teamed up with the writers from the stop animation sketch comedy TV show Robot Chicken. We love the show, and it's admittedly a surprising collaboration, so we sent off some questions for writer and voice provider Dan Milano (who is also penning the Short Circuit remake) to ask him about this brush with videogame development. You can check out the behind-the-scenes video below.
1UP: How did this come to be? Were you guys just shipped to Maxis for a day in lieu of your real jobs? Why the collaboration with Spore versus a different game?
Dan Milano: I believe Maxis approached Seth Green and Matt Senreich about the possibility of us being involved, and they simply rallied us troops together. Robot Chicken was not currently in an active writing cycle, so we came together on hiatus, from our separate side-projects. We did spend our first initial day with Kip and the team from Spore and as [Robot Chicken actor/writer] Zeb Wells put it, it was like kindergarten all over again. A real creative sandbox to build castles in!
