Name: 【TED】威爾-賴特。孢子，一款遊戲的誕生（威爾-賴特：孢子，一款遊戲的誕生）。 (【TED】Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game (Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:25:31.000Z
Duration: 18 min 34 s

譯者: Yung Fang Yeh 審譯者: Diwen Mueller

One of my favorite shows as a kid was "The Six Million Dollar Man,"

and this is a little bit closer to the 240-dollar man or so, but --

"The Six Million Dollar Man"(無敵金剛) 是我小時候喜歡的電視劇之一

這個價格也滿接近的 ,大概240美元, 但是

At any rate, I would normally feel very self-conscious and geeky

無論如何，穿著這個常使我感到很不自在,

but a few days ago I saw one world-renowned statistician

像個怪胎一樣 對吧, 但不久之前我看到

一個世界知名的統計學家在這舞台上表演吞劍

所以我想在這裡穿著這個應該也沒什麼大不了

But that's not what I want to talk about today.

I want to talk about toys, and the power that I see inherent in them.

我要說的主題跟玩具有關, 以及在我眼裡, 玩具與生俱來的力量

When I was a kid, I attended Montessori school

當我還是個孩子時, 我唸蒙特梭利學校

一直升到六年級都在喬治亞州的亞特蘭大

And at the time I didn't think much about it,

but then later, I realized that that was the high point of my education.

但之後, 我領悟到那時應該算是我人生教育的高峰

From that point on, everything else was pretty much downhill.

And it wasn't until later, as I started making games, that --

一直到後來我開始製作遊戲才停止惡化,

I really actually think of them more as toys.

事實上我想稱它們為玩具更為適當

人們稱我為遊戲設計師, 但我認為我做的這些東西更像是玩具

but I really think of these things more as toys.

那時我開始逐漸對瑪利亞.蒙特梭利和她的教育方式

I started getting very interested in Maria Montessori and her methods,

還有她看待事物的方式產生興趣

她認為對孩子極有助益的方式, 是讓他們主動去發現新事物

and the way she thought it very valuable for kids

她會設計一些玩具, 讓孩子在玩樂的同時

rather than being taught these things overtly.

And she would design these toys, where kids in playing with the toys

would come to understand these deep principles

由於那些事物由孩子們自己發掘, 他們的體認會更加深刻

And since they discovered this, it stuck with them so much more,

而由失敗為基礎的面向去學習, 是非常重要的

and also they would experience their own failures.

所以我認為我開發的這款遊戲, 就是現代版的蒙特梭利教具

There was a failure-based aspect to learning there. It was very important.

讓孩子探索及發現屬於他們自己的真理

I think of really more as modern Montessori toys.

於是幾年前, 我開始對SETI(搜尋地外文明計畫)產生興趣

And I really kind of want them to be presented in a way

to where kids can kind of explore and discover their own principles.

深入研究他們, 並苦思如何製作一個玩具

I started getting very interested in the SETI program.

讓其它人也可以體驗到, 我在學習這些主題過程中

I get interested in different subjects, I dive in, research them,

而這也引導我接觸了太空生物學, 一門研究存在於宇宙中的生命科學

and then try to figure out how to craft a toy around that,

你們應該聽過德瑞克方程式, 它計算

so that other people can experience the same sense of discovery

行星可能乘載的生物數量,持續的時間,以及行星的數量

that I did as I was learning that subject.

然後我觀察到德瑞克方程式有趣之處

the study of possible life in the universe.

物理學, 化學, 社會學, 經濟學, 天文學

looking at the probability of life arising on planets,

how long it might last, how many planets are out there.

很久以前由查爾斯與蕾.伊密所拍的電影---"十的次方"

And I started looking at how interesting Drake's equation was,

because it spanned all these different subjects --

思索我是否能把它們放入玩具中

physics, chemistry, sociology, economics, astronomy.

讓孩子探索這些恆久不變的定律

And another thing that really impressed me a long time ago

was "Powers of Ten," Charles and Ray Eames' film.

在探索的過程中可能會遇到的定律

And I started putting those two together and wondering, could I build a toy

where kids would trip across all these interesting principles of life,

as it exists and as it might go in the future.

所以今天我會讓你們看一個我正在製作的玩具

Things where you might trip across things

這玩具被賦與前所未有的哲學意義

like the Copernican principle, the Fermi paradox,

當你在玩這遊戲時, 會有些哲學的問題在你腦中不斷浮現

the anthropic principle, the origin of life.

這遊戲叫"幻想星球", 我製作它己經有數年了

And so I'm going to show you a toy today that I've been working on,

that I think of more as kind of a philosophy toy.

首先,它有各種不同的規模可以選擇

Playing this toy will bring up philosophical questions in you.

The game is "Spore." I've been working on it for several years.

It's getting pretty close to finished now.

It occurs at all these different scales, from very small to very large.

一個非常，非常小的單細胞生物

I'm going to pop in at the start of the game.

馬上你就要開始想辦法生存，生活與繁衍

And you actually start this game in a drop of water,

就是這裡，它還只是顯微鏡才能看到的大小

as a very, very small single-cell creature,

游來游去，我知道細胞沒有眼睛

and right off the bat you basically just have to live, survive, reproduce.

So here we are, at a very microscopic scale,

玩家們必須要經歷這生物的每個世代,逐漸進化

你玩遊戲的時候，這生物會一點一點的長大

And I actually realize that cells don't have eyes,

當他開始長大的時候，畫面就會開始拉遠

The players are going to play through every generation of this species,

顯示一些成長階段會跟你產生互動的東西

the creature is actually growing bit by bit.

所以在吃東西的時候，鏡頭會拉遠

我們也會逐漸跟越來越大的生物產生互動

the camera will actually start zooming out,

現在,我們在細胞的規模玩過許多世代

and things that you see in the background there

will start slowly pulling into the foreground,

showing you a little bit of what you'll be interacting with as you grow.

So as we eat, the camera starts pulling out,

這遊戲重要的一部分就是在每個階段

and then we start interacting with larger and larger organisms.

We actually play through many generations here,

現在,這款進化理論的遊戲,基本上你必須吃

生存,然後繁衍。你知道，非常達爾文主義

你們都知道＂模擬市民＂這款我之前開發的遊戲

and we actually get to a macroevolution scale.

Now, at this point we're leaving the water,

當他們在遊戲中製作出東西，他們就會對此放入大量的情感

and one thing that's kind of important about this game is that, at every level,

並產生強烈的移情作用，儘管它們並不是

像那些專業的藝術家在遊戲中做的東西一樣美

Now, in the evolution game here, the creature scale,

而且也非常在意它們會遭遇什麼事

basically you have to eat, survive, and then reproduce.

現在,我們離開水中,跟著這個小生物

我們把音量開大一點--現在我來讓它吃東西

One thing we noticed with "The Sims," a game I did earlier,

也許可以偷偷跑到那個小東西的旁邊--試著吃掉他

When they were able to make stuff in the game,

they had a lot of empathy in connection to it.

也就是說，遊戲的現階段就是要我們

四處奔走,試著存活並且繁衍後代

as a professional artist would make for games,

因為我們要將這生物的所有世代玩過一遍

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【TED】威爾-賴特。孢子，一款遊戲的誕生（威爾-賴特：孢子，一款遊戲的誕生）。 (【TED】Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game (Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game))

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