Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

翻译人员: Annie Chen 校对人员: Nancy Xiao Liang

I've always wanted to be a cyborg.

我一直想成为一个半机械人。

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

我小时候最喜欢的电视剧之一是“无敌金刚”，它的造价是六百万美元。

而这玩意儿的价值挺相近的，大约是240万美元，但是——

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

(Laughter)

（笑声）

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

不管怎样。而且我经常会感到拘谨，感觉有点儿怪异

wearing this around,

穿着这个走来走去，嗯，但是呢，今天前我看见

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

一位举世闻名的数据专家在这个舞台上吞剑，

swallowing swords on stage here,

so I figure it's OK amongst this group.

于是我就觉得在这群人里面我还算正常。

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

但是这不是我今天要谈论的话题。

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

我想要谈玩具，以及我从玩具中发现的天然的威力。

When I was a kid, I attended Montessori school

当我还是个小孩的时候，我在大名鼎鼎的蒙特梭利学校

up to sixth grade in Atlanta, Georgia.

读到了六年级。那是在佐治亚州亚特兰大。

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

那时，我并没有觉得有啥了不起。

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

但是后来，我发现那是我教育生涯中的制高点。

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

从那以后，一切都江河日下了。

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

等到后来，当我开始制作电脑游戏，那时我真的——

I really actually think of them more as toys.

我把它们当做是玩具。

People call me a game designer,

人们称我为游戏设计师，但是我却将（我设计的）那些东西当做玩具。

but I really think of these things more as toys.

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

我开始对玛利亚•蒙特梭利和她的教育方法

以及她的处事方式感兴趣。

and the way she went about things,

and the way she thought it very valuable for kids

她很重视让孩子们自己去发现，

to discover things on their own

而不是直接明白地向他们灌输这些知识。

rather than being taught these things overtly.

她会设计一些寓教于乐的玩具，

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

使孩子们可以一边玩一边懂得一些

would come to understand these deep principles

有关人生和自然的深刻道理。

of life and nature through play.

因为这些道理是他们自己发现的，所以他们就会牢牢记住它们，

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

而且他们还会经历失败，

and also they would experience their own failures.

这样他们就会经历挫折教育。这是很重要的。

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

因此，我觉得我所创作的游戏就是蒙特梭利式的玩具的现代翻版。

And so, the games that I do,

I think of really more as modern Montessori toys.

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

并且我真心希望它们能够帮助小孩们

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

通过自己去探索和发现这个世界的道理。

So a few years ago,

于是，几年前，我开始对地外文明探索工程

I started getting very interested in the SETI program.

产生了浓厚的兴趣。这是我的一种工作方式，

And that's the way I work.

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

我对各种领域都有兴趣，我潜入其中，

探索研究它，然后想办法做出一种与之相关的游戏，

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

这样其他人就能体验到和我在学习这个课题时

so that other people can experience the same sense of discovery

所体验过的发现的感觉。

that I did as I was learning that subject.

于是我遇到了研究宇宙中可能存在的生命的天体生物学。

And it led me to astrobiology,

the study of possible life in the universe.

然后是德瑞克方程式，大家知道，

And then Drake's equation,

looking at the probability of life arising on planets,

它关注的是行星上可能产生生命的概率，可以维持的时间，以及可能有多少行星，

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

诸如此类

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

我开始关注这个极其有趣的方程，

because it spanned all these different subjects --

因为它涉及了各种不同的学科——

physics, chemistry, sociology, economics, astronomy.

物理、化学、社会学、经济学、天文学。

And another thing that really impressed me a long time ago

另一个很久以来让我印象深刻的是

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

查尔斯•伊默斯和蕾•伊默斯夫妇的影片《十的次方》

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

当我把这两者合起来看时，我想到

我能不能建造一个玩具，使得小孩们可以

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

在生命所有的这些有趣的、

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

经久不变的规则中穿梭？

Things where you might trip across things

你可能会遇到

like the Copernican principle, the Fermi paradox,

哥白尼定律、费米佯谬

the anthropic principle, the origin of life.

人择原理、生命起源。

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

而我今天要向大家展示的是我正在创作中的一个玩具，

我觉得它绝对是一个哲学玩具。

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

Playing this toy will bring up philosophical questions in you.

当你玩着这个玩具的时候，你就会想到一些哲学的命题。

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

这个游戏的名字叫做“孢子”。我为这个游戏努力了好几年了。

It's getting pretty close to finished now.

创作已经接近尾声。

它有不同的场景规模。

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

从极其微小到非常宏大。

我将要从最开端来进入这个游戏，

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

其实是从一滴水里开始这个游戏的，

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

as a very, very small single-cell creature,

这时你还是一个很小很小的单细胞生物，

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

然后马上你需要开始基本的生存、生活、繁衍。

So here we are, at a very microscopic scale,

你看，它小极了，

swimming around.

游来游去。我知道事实上细胞生物没有眼睛，

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

but it helps to make it cute.

但是眼睛使它看起来更可爱。

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

玩家会逐步经历这个物种的每一代进化，

and as you play the game,

当你玩这个游戏的时候，这个生物就一点一点地长大。

the creature is actually growing bit by bit.

And as we start growing,

当它开始生长的时候，镜头会变焦

the camera will actually start zooming out,

and things that you see in the background there

使得你在背景中看到的景物

will start slowly pulling into the foreground,

会慢慢地往前移，

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

让你知道当它成长的时候会遇到什么。

So as we eat, the camera starts pulling out,

瞧，当它进食的时候，镜头会拉远，然后我们开始

and then we start interacting with larger and larger organisms.

和越来越大的生物体互动。

We actually play through many generations here,

我们可以在细胞层面经历好多代。

at the cellular scale.

I'm going to skip ahead here.

我要跳过这一级了。当我们变大之后，就会

At some point we get larger,

and we actually get to a macroevolution scale.

进入到进化的宏观层面。

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

在这个界面中，我们离开了水，

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

这个游戏中很重要的一点是，在每一个级别中，

the player is designing their creature,

玩家可以自己设计生物的形态。

and that's a fundamental aspect of this.

这是很基本的。

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

那么，在这个进化游戏中，在生物的层面上，你要做的

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

基本上就是进食、生存、繁殖。这很符合达尔文的理论。

You know, very Darwinian.

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

大家在我以前创作的“模拟”系列游戏中已经注意到，

is that players love making stuff.

玩家喜欢做东西。

When they were able to make stuff in the game,

当他们自己可以制作东西时，他们就会对它

they had a lot of empathy in connection to it.

产生极大的共情感，哪怕做出来的东西

Even if it wasn't as pretty

并不是人们想象的那么美丽——就像专业的艺术家

as a professional artist would make for games,

it really stuck with them

为游戏设计的那样——但玩家对它们不离不弃，

and they really cared about what would happen to it.

对它遇到的一切非常关心。

At this point, we've left the water, and now with this little creature --

所以现在，我们离开了水。我们可以让这个小家伙——

我们可以把音量调大一点——让它吃东西，

we could bring up the volume a little bit --

and now we might try to eat.

We might sneak up on this little guy over here maybe,

我们可以悄悄接近这个小东西，然后吃掉它。

and try and eat him.

好，我们干一架。

OK, well, we fight.

(Creatures grunting)

OK, we got him.

嗯，我们打败了它。现在我们开吃。

Now we get a meal.

所以在游戏的这个部分，我们就是在

So really, at this part of the game,

what we're doing is we're running around and surviving,

游荡和生存，并且制造下一代，

and also getting to the next generation,

因为我们要经历这个生物的每一代。

because we're going to play through every generation of this creature.

我们可以交配，所以我要看看

We can mate, so I'm going to see

这个同类是不是愿意和我交配。嗯。

if one of these creatures wants to mate with me. Yeah.

(Creatures grunting)

We didn't want to replay actual evolution with humans and all that,

我们并不想重复人类实际的进化过程，

因为看看别的可能

because it's almost more interesting

to look at alternate possibilities in evolution.

也许更加有趣。

Evolution is usually presented as this one path that we took through,

我们经历的进化过程有时候显得像是唯一的方式

but really it represents this huge set of possibilities.

但是进化其实有很多的可能方式

Now, once we mate, we click on the egg.

我们一旦交配之后，就可以点这个蛋。

And this is where the game starts getting interesting,

这样游戏就变得很有趣了，

因为我们的重点工作致意就是让玩家

because one of the things we really focused on here

was giving the players very high-leverage tools,

利用事半功倍的工具，简单而巧妙地

so that for very little effort, the player can make something very cool.

做出很酷的事情。工具栏中包含了很多的智慧。

And it involves a lot of intelligence on the tool side.

基本上，这就是编辑工具，我们可以用它设计

But basically, this is the editor

where we're going to design the next generation.

我们的生物的下一代。它有一个小脊柱，

So it has a little spine. I can move around, I can extend.

它可以移动，可以延伸。

I can also inflate or deflate it with the mouse wheel,

我也可以用这个鼠标操纵的转盘来使它膨胀或者紧缩，这样你就可以塑造它的形状，

so you sculpt it like clay.

We have parts here that I can put on or pull off.

就像捏橡皮泥一样。这儿我们有零件，你可以添加或者拆减。

The idea is that the player can basically design

我们的理念是，玩家可以用这个编辑工具设计

anything they can think of in this editor,

任何他们想设计的东西，然后让它有了生命。

and we'll basically bring it to life.

So I might put some limbs on the character here.

比如，我可以在这个家伙身上装一些肢体。

I'll inflate them kind of large.

我要把它们胀大。

And in this case I might decide I'm going to put --

这儿我打算——

I'll put mouths on the limbs.

我打算在它的肢体上加几个嘴巴。

So pretty much players are encouraged to be very creative in the game.

所以这个游戏鼓励玩家尽可能地发挥他们的创意。

Here, I'll give it one eye in the middle, maybe scale it up a bit. Point it down.

这里，我要在中间安一只眼睛，放大，视线向下一点。

And I'll also give it a few legs.

我还要给它装几条腿。

So in some sense

所以我们想要这个游戏

we want this to feel like an amplifier for the player's imagination,

能够放飞玩家的想象，

so that with a very small number of clicks a player can create something

这样玩家只要轻点鼠标，就能创造

that they didn't really think was possible before.

他们以前想也不敢想的东西。

This is almost like designing something like Maya --

你瞧，这就像是一款

that an eight-year-old can use.

八岁的小孩都能使用的玛雅设计软件。

But really the goal here was,

我们真实的意图是，让玩家可以在一分钟之内，

within about a minute, I wanted somebody to replicate

what typically takes a pictorial artist several weeks to create.

制作出一个平面设计师一般需要几周来创作的东西。

OK, now I'll put some hands on it.

好，现在我要为它加上几只手。

OK, so here I've basically thrown together a little creature.

嗯，这样我就拼装好了一个小生物。

我接着在它的尾巴上添一个小武器，这样它就能战斗了。

Let me give it a little weapon on the tail here, so it can fight.

OK, so that's the complete model.

好啦，大功告成。然后我们就可以为它涂色了。

Now we can actually go to the painting phase.

At this phase, the program has some understanding

在这个阶段，程序实际上对这个生物的拓扑有自己的理解。

of the topology of this creature.

它知道哪里是后背，

It knows where the backbone is, where the spine, the limbs are,

哪里是脊柱，哪里是肢体。

how stripes should run, how it should be shaded.

它知道条纹应该如何分布，如何造型，

于是我们就顺理成章地得到了这个纹理图。

And so we're procedurally generating the texture map,

这样的作品交给一个纹理艺术家来做可能需要很多天。

something a texture artist would take many days to work on.

我们完成这一项之后，就可以测试一下，让它四处走动一下。

And then we can test it out, and see how it would move around.

And so at this point the computer is procedurally animating this creature.

这时，电脑就会自动地控制这个生物的移动。

电脑听命于我的设计，然后让它动起来。

It's looking at whatever I've designed. It will actually bring it to life.

瞧瞧，我让它跳舞。

And I can see how it might dance.

（笑声）

(Laughter)

How it might show emotions, how it might fight.

让它表达情感，让它打斗。

So it's acting with its two mouths there.

让让它的两个嘴巴动起来。

I can even have it pose for a photo.

我甚至能让它摆姿势拍照——拍个照。

Snap a little photo of it.

(Laughter)

笑声

So then I bring this back into the game.

我把它放回游戏中来，它出生了。

It's born, and I play the next generation of my creature through evolution.

然后我开始玩我的生物进化后的下一代。

Now again, the empathy that the players have

同样的，玩家们创作生物时的强烈的共情感又来了。

when they create the content is tremendous.

当一个玩家在游戏中创作一个内容时，

When players create content in this game, it's automatically sent up to a server

它自动被传送到服务器，

and then redistributed to all the other players transparently.

然后重新分配到所有其他玩家的系统中。

So in fact, as I'm interacting in this world with other creatures,

因此，其实在这个世界里同我互动的其他生物，

these creatures are transparently coming from other players as they play.

是直接由其他的玩家创造的。

So the process of playing the game

所以玩游戏的过程就是在建立一个巨大的内容数据库。

is a process of building up this huge database of content.

几乎所有你在游戏中看到的一切，

And pretty much everything you're going to see in this game,

there's an editor for that the player can create,

都有相应的编辑工具，

up through civilization.

是的，贯穿整个文明。这是我的宝贝儿。

This is my baby. When I eat, I'll actually start growing.

当我吃东西的时候，我就在长大。这是它的下一代。

This is the next generation. But I'm going to skip ahead here.

我要跳过这步了。接着，一般来说，这些生物就会

Normally what would happen is these creatures would work their way up,

日臻完美，最后变得拥有智慧。

eventually become intelligent.

随着时间流逝，我开始处理部落、城市和不同的文明的问题。

I'd start dealing with tribes, cities and civilizations of them over time.

I'm going to skip way ahead to the space phase.

我要跳过这些步骤，直接跳到太空阶段。

最终它们会进入太空，开始在宇宙中殖民和探索。

Eventually they would go out into space,

and start colonizing and exploring the universe.

Now, really, in some sense,

我希望玩家能够用他们的想象创造世界。

I want the players to be building this world in their imagination,

and then extracting it from them with the least amount of pain.

然后用最简单的方式

从中取其精华。

So that's kind of what these tools are about.

这就是这些工具的意义，这就是我们如何用这个游戏，

How do we make the gameplay,

放飞玩家的想象，

you know, basically the player's imagination amplifier?

And how do we make these tools, these editors,

我们如何让这些工具，这些编辑工具变得

something that are just as fun as the game itself?

和游戏本身一样好玩。

So this is the planet that we've been playing on

这就是我们在玩游戏时所在的星球。

up to this point in the game.

So far the entire game has been played on the surface of this little world here.

目前这整个游戏就是在这个小世界的表面玩的。

At this point we're actually dealing with a very little toy planet.

现在我们是在玩一个小小的星球玩具，

Almost, again, like the Montessori toy idea.

同样几乎就像是蒙特梭利玩具那样。

What happens if you give somebody a toy planet,

你知道，当你给人一个星球玩具，

and let them play with a lot of dynamics on it?

让他们可以随意摆弄时，

What could they discover? What might they learn on this?

他们会发现什么？他们会从中学到什么？

这个世界事实上是来源于玩家的想象，

This world was actually extracted from the player's imagination.

是玩家的生息之地，

So, this is the planet that the player evolved on.

Things like the buildings, the vehicles, the architecture, civilizations

所以所有的房屋建筑、交通工具、所有文明

were all designed by the player up to this point.

目前为止都是由玩家来设计的。

So here's a little city with some of our guys walking around in it.

所以这里是一个小城市，有几个咱们的人行走其中。

And most games put the player in the role of Luke Skywalker,

在大多数的游戏中，玩家都是像卢克•天行者这样的

this protagonist playing through this story.

故事主角。

This is more about putting the player in the role of George Lucas.

然而这个游戏却是让玩家来扮演

导演乔治•卢卡斯的角色。

I want them, after they've played this game,

我希望他们玩了这个游戏之后，

能够创作出一个完整的世界，与之互动。

to have extracted an entire world that they're now interacting with.

现在当我摧毁这里的时候，在这个星球上其实还居住着

As we pull down here,

we still have a whole set of creatures living on the surface of the planet.

一系列的生物，所以发生着一系列动态的变化。

All these different dynamics going on here.

我可以从这里俯视。这里的生物有一个简化了的

I can look over here, and this is a little simplified food web

小食物链。

that's going on with the creatures.

I can open this up and then scan what exists on the surface.

我可以打开这个，浏览哪些生物存在于这个表面，

You get some sense of the diversity of creatures that were brought in.

了解其中生物的多样性。

其中有些时由玩家自己创作的，

Some of these were created by the player,

有的是由其他玩家创造的，自动分配到这里来的。

others by other players, automatically sent over here.

但是这里面也要求一些简单的计算，

But there's a very simple calculation of what's required,

比如为了草食动物的存活，需要多少植物，

how many plants are required for the herbivores to live,

为了我肉食动物的存活，需要多少草食动物，

how many herbivores for the carnivores to eat, etc.,

你需要实现一个动态的平衡。

that you have to balance actively.

同样，在这个阶段，我们给了玩家更多的造物的权利，

Also with this phase,

we're getting more and more God-like powers for the player,

你可以用这个玩具星球来实现。

and you can experiment with this planet as a toy.

So I can come in and I can do things,

我可以进入其中，可以摆弄它，可以把这个星球当做一块橡皮泥。

and just treat this planet as a lump of clay.

这里我们有一个简单的天气系统，

We have very simple weather systems, simple geology.

很简单的地理状况。比如，我可以在这里使用一个工具，

For instance, I could open one of my tools here and then carve out rivers.

比如，开凿河流。

So this whole thing is kind of like a big lump of clay, a sculpture.

这整个星球就像是一块巨大的橡皮泥，一个雕塑。

I can also play with the dynamics in this world over time.

我还可以不断控制这个世界的动态变化。

So one of the things I can do

因此，我可以往大气中倾倒更多二氧化碳，

is start pumping more CO2 gases into the atmosphere,

就像这样。

and so that's what I'm doing here.

There's actually a little readout down there

这下面有一些关于我们这个星球的大气环境的指数，

of our planetary atmosphere, pressure and temperature.

包括气压，温度。

So as I start pumping in more atmosphere,

所以当我开始增加气体时，

we're going to start pushing up the greenhouse gases here

我们就会提高温室气体的含量，

and if you'll start noticing,

如果你注意看的话，就会发现海平面上升了。

we start seeing the ocean levels rise over time.

And our cities are going to be at risk too,

而我们的城市就会有危险，因为许多城市就在海岸边。

because a lot of these are coastal cities.

你可以看见海平面正在上升，海水在侵蚀城市，

You can see the ocean levels are rising now

and as they encroach upon the cities, I'll start losing cities here.

这里我失掉了不少城市。

So basically, I want the players to be able to experiment and explore

所以我希望玩家能够试验和探索，

a huge amount of failure space.

了解各种太空中的失败——你看，一个城市毁灭了。

So there goes one city.

Now, over time, this is going to heat up the planet.

渐渐地，星球的温度提高了。

So at first what we're going to see

在这个小小玩具星球上，我们首先会遇到的

is a global ocean rise here on this little toy planet,

就是全球海平面上升。

逐渐地——我可以加快点速度——

but then over time -- I can speed it up --

我们也可以看见升温带来的影响。

we'll see the heat impact of that as well.

Not only will it get hotter,

它不仅仅会变得更热，

but at some point it's going to get so hot the oceans will evaporate.

甚至在某种情况下，热到连海洋都蒸发了。

They'll go up, and then they'll evaporate, and that'll be my planet.

所以海洋先上升，然后蒸发，这就是我的星球。

So basically, what we're getting here

我们正在经历的可能是

is the sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth," in about two minutes,

《难以忽视的真相》的两分钟的续集，

and that actually brings up an interesting point about games.

这让游戏变得很有趣。

Now here, our entire oceans are evaporating off the surface,

现在我们所有的海洋正在从表面开始蒸发。

随着温度越来越高，整个星球可能会在某一刻融化掉。

and as it keeps getting hotter,

at some point the entire planet is going to melt down. Here it goes.

你看。

So we're not only simulating biological dynamics --

所以我们不仅仅是在模拟生物的变化——像食物链等——

food webs and all that --

but also geologic, you know, on a very simple core scale.

还有简单的核心层面的地理变化。

And what's interesting to me about games

对我来说，游戏的有趣之处有时

is that I think we can take a lot of long-term dynamics

在于我们可以将一些长期的变化

and compress them into very short-term experiences.

压缩成短期的经历。

Because it's so hard for people to think 50 or 100 years out,

把五十甚至一百年内发生的事情想清楚实在太难了，

but when you can give them a toy,

但是如果你能给他们一个玩具，让他们在几分钟之内

and they can experience these long-term dynamics in just a few minutes,

去经历这些长期的变化，

我认为就是一种全然不同的观点了，我们可以呈现，

I think it's an entirely different point of view,

where we're actually using the game to remap our intuition.

用游戏去再现我们的直觉。

It's almost in the same way

就像是望远镜或者显微镜

that a telescope or microscope recalibrates your eyesight;

重新校准了你的视力，我觉得电脑模拟可以

I think computer simulations can recalibrate your instinct

大规模地跨越空间和时间校准你的直觉。

across vast scales of both space and time.

So here's our little solar system,

我们把视线从融化了的行星里拉远，来到我们的小小太阳系。

as we pull away from our melted planet here.

原来在这个太阳系里，我们其实还有好多其他的行星。

We actually have a couple of other planets in this solar system.

让我们跳到另外一个上来。

Let's fly to another one.

We're going to have this unlimited number of worlds you can explore here.

其实，我们将会有无限多的世界

供你去探险。现在我们进入未来，

As we move into the future,

and we start going out into space and doing stuff,

我们可以开始进入这个空间做点事情，

we're drawing a lot from things like science fiction.

我们描绘出许多科幻小说里的东西。

都是我喜欢的科幻电影里的。

And all my favorite science fiction movies

我想在这里制造一些不同的变化。

I want to play out here as different dynamics.

这个星球上其实有一些生物。

This planet actually has some life on it.

Here it is, some indigenous life down here.

看，有些土生土长的生物。

One of the tools I can eventually earn for my UFO

现在我终于可以从我的飞行器上扔下一个

is a monolith that I can drop down.

巨大的石碑。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Now, as you can see,

现在你可以看见，这些生物开始走过来

these guys are actually starting to go up and bow to it,

向它鞠躬，渐渐地，一旦它们碰到它，它们就会变得有智慧。

and over time, once they touch it, they will become intelligent.

So I can actually pick a species on a planet

所以我可以挑一种生物，使它们变得有知觉。

and then make them sentient.

Now they've actually gone to tribal dynamics.

瞧，现在它们开始组成部落。

And now, because I'm actually the one here,

所以现在，因为我是唯一的操纵者，只要我愿意，我就可以从飞行器里出来，

I can get out of the UFO and walk up,

走近它们，然后它们现在应该会把我当做上帝来崇拜。

and they should be worshipping me at this point as a god.

（笑声）

At first they're a little freaked out.

一开始，它们有点吓坏了。

OK, well maybe they're not worshipping me.

好吧，它们可能没有崇拜我。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I think I'll leave before they get hostile.

我想我应该在它们对我产生敌意前离开。

But we basically want a diversity of activities

我们希望玩家可以经历不同的活动。

the players can play through this.

我希望这个游戏能变成

I want to be able to play

"The Day the Earth Stood Still," "2001: A Space Odyssey,"

《地球停转之日》、《2001太空漫游》

"Star Trek," "War Of the Worlds."

《星际迷航》、《世界之战》。

Now, as we pull away from this world --

现在，我们将视线从这个世界里移出来——我们从这个星球移出来了——

we're going to keep pulling away from the star now.

One of the things that always frustrated me about astronomy

天文学中有一点曾让儿时的我时常感到困扰：

when I was a kid

为什么它总是二维的、静态的呢？

is how it was always presented so two-dimensionally and so static.

当我们从行星中移开视线，我们就进入了

As we pull away from the star here,

we're actually going now out into interstellar space,

星际空间。

我们对家园行星周边的空间有了直观感觉。

and we're getting a sense of the space around our home star.

现在我真正想做的就是让大家看看这个，

What I really wanted to do is to present this, basically,

as wonderfully 3D as it is actually is.

这和它的实际存在一样的立体。

And also show the dynamics,

不仅如此，还有一些变化，

and a lot of the interesting objects that you might find, like, in the Hubble,

你还会发现许多有趣的物体，比如哈勃望远镜。

这和实际的频率和规模几乎是一样的。

at pretty much realistic frequencies and scales.

So most people have no idea of the difference

大多数人都分不清

between an emission nebula and a planetary nebula.

发射星云和环状星云之间的区别。

But these are the things

that we can put in this little galaxy here.

但是我们可以把这些放进这个小星系里。

我们可以飞到这里看看黑洞。

So we're flying over here to what looks like a black hole.

I want to basically have the entire zoo of Hubble objects

我想要将哈勃望远镜能看到的一切展示给人们，

让他们可以与之互动，当做玩具来玩。

that people can interact with and play with, again, as toys.

So here's a little black hole

这是一个黑洞，我们可不想离它太近。

that we probably don't want to get too close to.

But we also have stars and things as well.

我们还有星星和其他的东西。

If we pull all the way back, we start seeing the entire galaxy here,

如果我们继续将视线移远，我们可以看见这一整个星系，

kind of slowly in motion.

缓缓移动。普遍来说，当人们展现星系的时候，

Typically, when people present galaxies,

总是用美丽却静态的照片。

it's always beautiful photos, but they're always static.

当你让它随着时间动起来，

And when you bring it forward in time and start animating it,

加快它的运转速度，

it's amazing what a galaxy would look like fast forwarded.

它看起来就会十分惊艳。

This would be about a million years a second,

这大约是每秒一百万年，

因为大概每个世纪会出现一颗超新星。

because you have about one supernova every century.

And so you'd have this wonderful sparkling thing,

这样你就会看见如此美丽而闪耀的物体缓慢旋转，

with the disk slowly rotating,

and this is roughly what it would look like.

这就是它大概的样子。

这个游戏的目的之一就是用一种充满想象的方式，

Part of this is about bringing the beauty of the natural world

让人们看见自然世界的美，让他们开始大规模地跨越空间和时间，

to somebody in a very imaginative way,

so that they can start calibrating their instinct

重构自己的直觉。

across these vast scales of space and time.

一个天主教徒有一天问我游戏的玩家会变成怎样的上帝。

Chris was wondering what kind of gods the players would become.

Because if you think about it,

你想想，十五岁、二十岁的年轻人

you're going to have 15-year-olds, 20-year-olds flying around this universe.

将会飞入这个宇宙。

They might be a nurturing god.

他们会成为一个一个无微不至的上帝。也许会成为星球上自力更生的生命，

They might be bootstrapping life on planets,

努力地占领地盘，散布文明。

trying to terraform and spread civilization.

You might be a vengeful god, conquesting,

你可能会成为一个复仇心切的上帝，四处侵略征服，

because you actually can do that, you can attack other intelligent races.

你真的可以，你能闯进别的智慧的种族攻击他们。

你可能会成为一个左右逢源的上帝，建立盟友，

You might be a networking god, building alliances,

你也可以这么做。或者你只是出于好奇，

or just curious, going around and wanting to explore as much as you possibly can.

尽你所能，四处游历。

But basically, the reason why I make toys like this

我想要创作这个玩具的原因，

is because I think if there's one difference

是我觉得我可能可以、也想要，为这个世界带来的变化

I could possibly make in the world,

that I would choose to make,

就是，我想要让人们能更好地

it's that I would like to somehow give people

just a little bit better calibration on long-term thinking.

从长远看问题。

Because I think most of the problems that our world is facing right now

因为我觉得我们的世界现在所面临的诸多问题

大多归咎于人们目光短浅。

are the result of short-term thinking,

and the fact that it is so hard for us to think 50, 100, or 1,000 years out.

让我们去畅想五十年、一百年甚至一千年以后的变化实在太难。

And I think by giving kids toys like this and letting them replay dynamics,

而我认为给孩子们一个这样的玩具，

让他们重现动态变化，

very long-term dynamics over the short term,

用很短的时间看长期的变化，

and getting some sense of what we're doing now,

让他们了解我们现在在做的事情，了解一百年后会发生的事情，

what it's going to be like in 100 years,

I think probably is the most effective thing I can be doing to help the world.

就是我现在能为帮助这个世界所做的

最有效率的事。

And so that's why I think that toys can change the world.

这就是为什么，我自认为，玩具可以改变世界。

Thank you.

谢谢。