(PC) Creature Creator
EA & HP Team up for Spore Creature Creator (free 50% version)
Jul 1st
If you are running the free Creature Creator with 25% parts, then you can find a better version with 50% parts over at the Hewlett Packard’s Spore Creature Creator site.
According to HP, the new demo features twice as many creature parts as other demos.
This version will also start shipping on certain HP and Compaq notebooks and desktops in September, the same time of the game’s release.
Source: AppScout
NPD week ending June 21, 2008 – Spore Creature Creator tops sales
Jun 30th
The NPD Group has released US PC software sales data for the week ending June 21, with EA’s Spore Creature Creator coming out on top.
Maxis reported that one million Spore creatures were created and shared during the stand-alone program’s first week of availability. The full Spore game will be released in September.
Sales of Spore Creature Creator were strong enough to place the game at number six on the All Categories list – the only game to appear alongside business, education and utility software.
The Top Ten best-selling PC games in the US for the week ending June 21 were:
- 1 Spore Creature Creator (EA)
- 2 The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA)
- 3 Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos)
- 4 World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack (Vivendi>
- 5 World Of Warcraft (Vivendi)
- 6 World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Vivendi)
- 7 The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack (EA)
- 8 The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff Expansion Pack (EA)
- 9 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
- 10 Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (LucasArts)
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
UK: Spore’s Very Important Creatures (VIC) Contest
Jun 29th
Hey UKer’s, this contest if for you! Stop by the Electronic Arts UK website to join their Spore Contest titled Very Important Creatures.
We have teamed up with MAp-MAp and Spreadshirt to offer unique personalised prizes for 5 weekly winners.
Each featured creature will win their creator a t-shirt, specially printed with their creation and the best creature each week will be brought to life by being turned into a hand made 3D model.
It took 2 weeks, Spore Creature Creator has been hacked 100%
Jun 28th
Oh well if this isn’t a slap in EA’s face, a very good one. You see, you just can’t keep pirates down, not matter what crap DRM you try to put down. We (the legimate users) are forced to have DRM to keep us from not pirating the game – hell, we are even limited to 3 activation installs then we have to contact EA for premission to get another key.
Well, it looks like the team called ViTaLiTY has finally created a full 100% version of the Spore Creature Creator. And you know what? According to the comments, it even allows full premission to upload to Sporepedia since the site detects it as a legimate copy.
Now I’m really, really ticked off. I know that piracy can never be prevented…but why is it that we are told what we are aloud/not aloud to do with our products when we purchase the game, while the hackers can remove whatever they want?
Hey, EA – get this. Once Spore is released, it’s going to take hackers 2 weeks to hack the game. Actually, it will probably even be sooner than that since now the hackers are familiar with this version of SecuROM which will be the same version for when Spore ships.
How about you just drop the whole copy-protection, issue an apology to gamers and see where that will take you? Sure, it will be on the pirate sites that much faster, but at least the legimate gamers will buy your games and recommend them to others. Word of mouth goes a long way, and so far much of the words to be said is not good.
I want to keep supporting you EA. In fact, I even went out to purchase a copy of the Creature Creator after you sent me one a few days before the release date….I’m sure others would love to be able to purchase your games as well, but your DRM is holding many folks back!
MySpace.com Spore Creature Creator contest
Jun 28th
For US residents only.
Want to win $5,000? Well, crank up the Creature Creator and start creating! MySpace.com is holding a “Cool Creature Contest”.
The Contest begins on June 24, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST), ends on August 29, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. PST
For more details on this contest, please visit the MySpace Spore page.
StrongBad found in the Creature Creator & other hidden data
Jun 27th
Wow…I think we hit the motherload when it comes to Spore information. You can find a thread at GamingSteve’s forum which shows off a ton of hidden information including text files of many details regarding Spore as well as images that were hidden. All of this information was pulled from the Creature Creator.
Why did Strongbad make it in there? Guess someone was a fan!
You can also find the text files with tons of spoilers over at this website.
Free Spore Creature Creator Guide from Prima Games
Jun 25th
If you click the banner above, you’ll be able to download a free 27 page guide of the Spore Creature Creator from Prima Games. This guide is packed with tons of information as well as images to help build your creature the best it can be.
I set up a mirror download in case the guide goes offline over at Prima Games, you can download it from our Spore Tutorials section.
Thanks to Wydraz from the Gaming Steve Spore Forums for the find!
Eurogamer: Spore Creature Creator review
Jun 25th
If you’ve any interest in videogames, you should at least play the demo. While it’s going to be disappointing to some people – and I’ll explain why in a bit – this is absolutely one of the cutting edges of videogames at the moment. That it does what it does so naturally almost undersells its achievement: it just works. The difference between the demo and the full version is that you simply get a lot more parts out of which to construct your creature. Which, when written down, makes you wonder why anyone would pay for it. It’ll all be in the game eventually, and you can have a crack at a fair chunk of it now… why pay?
More Than One Million Wild and Wonderful Life Forms Created Using the Spore Creature Creator in One Week
Jun 25th
Players Test the Limits of Their Imagination, Creating Creatures Ranging From the Realistic to the Fantastic
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The internet has been invaded by walking pears, giant dragons, impossible-to-describe aliens and everything in between! Maxis, an Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio, today announced that fans have created and shared more than one million creatures using the Spore™ Creature Creator in the first week of availability. Anyone can download their own copy of the Spore Creature Creator or check out hundreds of thousands of amazing creations from around the world in the Sporepedia™ at www.spore.com.
The Sporepedia is an extraordinarily vast online destination where people worldwide can search for and share Spore creations, comment on other player’s designs, check out celebrity creature creations and much more.
“Maxis is excited, humbled and inspired by the explosion of creativity that we’ve seen with the Spore Creature Creator online,” said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. “I’m amazed at the creations I see getting uploaded to the Sporepedia, whether it’s a realistic looking bird or animal, a 10-eyed alien, or something completely bizarre and unexpected like a creature that looks like a motorcycle, it’s clear that people have an innate desire to be creative, and we’re thrilled to help them express themselves.”
The millionth creature was created by user “FlamingChidori” and was named, “Sapiusgeenus” – a two-legged green creature that the creator described as “one of my favorites so far.” You can check “Sapiusgeenus” and a million other creatures at www.spore.com.
The Spore Creature Creator is a stand-alone product and creativity toy box where players create their own unique creatures, bring them to life with entertaining animations, and share them online with friends around the world. The full version of the Spore Creature Creator will be available for $9.99 at retail stores or by visiting www.spore.com. A free trial version of the Spore Creature Creator is also available today at www.spore.com. The trial version features 25% of the creature-making parts from Spore and lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creatures. Creatures made in the Spore Creature Creator can also be imported into the full Spore game, allowing players to populate their own galaxies when the game ships worldwide later this year.
The Spore Creature Creator lets players create their own creatures, take them on a test drive, snap pictures, and make movies of them. Sharing pictures or videos with friends is as easy as the click of a button. Players can also share their creations with others by uploading to the Sporepedia™ at www.Spore.com.
The Spore Creature Creator is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. The downloadable demo version is free. The complete version has an MSRP of $9.99 in North America. Spore ships for the PC, Mac, Nintendo DS™ and mobile phones on September 5, 2008 in Europe and September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia. Visit www.Spore.com to download a free version of the Spore Creature Creator, sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and videos from the game.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS FreestyleTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, The Sims, SPORE and Sporepedia are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nintendo DS is a trademark of Nintendo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Source: BusinessWire
Yahoo Pipes – Create an RSS feed of your Spore Creatures
Jun 23rd
I stumbled on this webpage thru RSS feeds of my own. It appears that a crafty user known as Felix has came up with an option for you to create your own RSS feeds of your Spore Creatures from the Sporepedia. Below is a link as well as a tutorial on how you can create your own:
Pipes – Create your own Spore Creature RSS Feed
Oh, to find your Sporepedia id it’s a little bit annoying – you have to go to your spore profile page – you’ll see a link on the right side that says “show widget source” if you click that and search through the gobbldygook you’ll see userid=#### that’s your user id. Also, that’s a widget that uses their own xml feed and is prettier than the badge one above, so that’s a good option if you just want a widget, but I wanted to make an RSS feed because you get a lot more flexibililty with that. Anyhoo, let me know what you think.
Source: #Comments
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