and how deep it's going to go into evolution.
He gave the swimming creature legs, and from this demo it seemed that was all that was needed to change it from an ocean creature into a land creature. On irc it was suggested the game is not doing any evolution, the player is; it seems you spend some time collecting points by eating stuff, then you use the points to evolve the creature by buying legs. On the other hand, the idea of downloading other player's evolving creatures is nice because this will make for an evolving environment. I liked the first part of the demo more than the part in which he was flying around and blowing up planets or starting life on a rock. The first part of the demo showed a game, while in this later part, for me at least, it wasn't quite clear why that would be fun. It wasn't (yet) clear to me what the challenge was there. Maybe it will be like a sim-ant on a universal scale. Or rather sim-city, trying some things and waiting to see what happens. Like Sswift said, open-ended.