MaxisCactus’ Quick Guide to GA Achievements

Not sure what all of the Achievements (minus the secret ones) that you can earn in Spore Galactic Adventures?  MaxisCactus would like to share a list with you then posted in this thread over at the Sporums:

Not sure why your achievement didn’t show up when you thought it should, or simply looking for some notes on the GA achievement set?

Here’s a quick list of achievements along with some useful notes about earning them. Hope this helps.

• Secret achievements not listed
• If you cheat in your game, achievements will not be unlocked

Aeschylus:
Create 10 Adventures. Each must be started from scratch and saved.

Moliere:
Create 50 Adventures. Each must be started from scratch and saved.

Shakespeare:
Create 100 Adventures. Each started from scratch and saved.

Costume Piece:
Create 50 Adventures with Tribe, Civilization and Empire Creatures. Each adventure may have any combination of the three (at least one in each category). Each adventure started from scratch and saved.

Scientist:
Place 200 Non-Accessorized Creatures into your Adventures. You must place 200 un-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Going Tribal:
Place 200 Tribal Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 tribe-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

So Civilized:
Place 200 Civilized Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 civ-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Emperor:
Place 200 Empire Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 space-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Still Life:
Create 30 Adventures without any creatures. Captain avatar needs to be in the scene and each adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Happy Times:
Create 30 Adventures with all peaceful actors. This applies to Creatures-only. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Large Ensemble:
Create 30 Adventures with over 100 actors in each. Includes creatures/vehicles/buildings. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Terraformer:
Create 50 Adventures using planets you terraformed. You must modify the terrain. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved. The terrain for each planet must be modified using the terraform stamp tool. Painting or changing the weather does not count, it has to be the terrain that changes. The captain must be in the scene to save.

Architect:
Place 500 Buildings into your Adventures. Adds up over multiple adventures, each Adventure created from scratch and saved. The buildings can be the same instance copied and pasted multiple times in the scene.

Mechanic:
Place 500 Vehicles into your Adventures. Adds up over multiple adventures, each Adventure created from scratch and saved. The buildings can be the same instance copied and pasted multiple times in the scene.

Delirious Designer:
Create 50 Adventures using only your own creations. The creations have to be made from the current user, not others. Creations must be placed in the scene. This includes creatures, vehicles and buildings. Each Adventure created from scratch and saved.

Dabbler:
Download 500 Adventures. This include maxis and user created adventures. This achievement can be also achieved by adding buddies. It will unlock automatically once you log in if they have multiple adventures already uploaded. Adventures must be unique.

Bestseller:
Create a featured Adventure. Note: This is a server side achievement so there will be no pop up. The server takes 8-10 mins. to ping back that the achievement has being completed. This creation must be featured on the web site.

Adventurer:
Complete an Adventure in Space. Any adventures will satisfy this including maxis made. You need to report back to the empire and finish the mission.

Grand Adventurer:
Complete 100 Adventures in the Space Stage. Maxis or user created adventures count and you need to report back to the empires and finish the missions.

Geared Up:
Outfit 50 Creatures with Adventure parts. The creatures have to be different. The creatures need to be saved in the Captain outfitter in order to unlock this achievement.

Consumer:
Finish 200 adventures made by other players. Either SPG or Quick PLay. Captain must be unlocked. Can be unlocked with any adventures (including Maxis-made), as long as they’re not created by the current player. Must be played and completed with a captain not a creature with just adventure parts.

Red Shirt:
Lose 100 posse members while playing Adventures in Space Game. Posse members include creatures befriended in the adventure or SPG posse. This counts with Maxis made or user made adventures. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

Mercenary:
Kill 1,000 creatures while playing Adventures in Space Game. Epics also count for this achievement. Maxis and player made adventures count. The Adventure must be completed for the kill to count. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

My Precious:
Collect 3,000 objects while playing Adventures in Space Game. Complete 3,000 collect goals (this is goal based, it does not count for every asset). The goal has to be set to collect. Adventure creators can set the collect goal to buildings, vehicles and creatures. You must finish the adventure to get the achievement. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

My Hero:
Protect 500 creatures while playing Adventures in Space Game. This achievement actually applies to buildings, vehicles and creatures. Each goal needs to be completed for it to be tallied up at the end of the adventure (this is goal based, it does not count for every asset). The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

Major Contributor:
Give 500 gifts while playing Adventures in Space Game. Note that gifts can be given to vehicles, buildings and creatures. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. This is goal based, it does not count for every asset. The Adventure Must be completed.

Dragon Slayer:
Kill 1,000 Epics while playing Adventures in Space Game. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. The adventure must be successfully completed. This achievement is not goal based, each epic counts.

My First Captain:
Raise a Captain to Rank 10 through Space stage or Quick Play. The creature must be made captain in Space game, but it can be used in Space or Quick Play adventures to earn this achievement.

Captain Academy:
Raise 10 Captains to Rank 10 through Space stage or Quick Play. The creature must be made captain in Space game, but it can be used in Space or Quick Play adventures to earn this achievement.

Storyteller:
Publish 50 adventures. Share 50 adventures, each created from scratch.

Publish Author:
Publish an Adventure. Share an adventure for the first time.

Social Butterfly:
Befriend 1,000 Creatures while playing adventures in the Space Game. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. This is goal based, it does not count for every gift. Adventures must be authored by other players.

Auto Wrecker:
Destroy 1,000 vehicles while playing adventures in the Space Game.

Demolition Expert:
Destroy 1,000 Buildings while playing adventures in the Space Game.

Faithful Zealot:
Unlock all Zealot parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 zealot parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Universal Ecologist:
Unlock all Ecologist parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 ecologist parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Wise Shaman:
Unlock all shaman parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 shaman parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Fierce Warrior:
Unlock all warrior parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 warrior parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Industrious Trader:
Unlock all trader parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 trader parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Intelligent Scientist:
Unlock all scientist parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 scientist parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Joyful Bard:
Unlock all bard parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 bard parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Just Diplomat:
Unlock all diplomat parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 diplomat parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Celebrate your Independence with 2 new Spore Galactic Adventures missions!

Check out this new press release from EA – celebrate the 4th of July (as Maxis is an American-based Studio) with 2 new adventures:  ‘How a Bill Becomes Law‘ and ‘Kaboom!

July 2, 2009 – Happy 4th of July! To help celebrate our nation’s birthday, the developers at Maxis have created two holiday-themed missions from the latest video game, Spore Galactic Adventures. The adventures, entitled ‘How a Bill Becomes Law’ and ‘Kaboom!,’ are both available for download today at www.spore.com. Both missions, created with the Adventure Creator tool in Spore Galactic Adventures, allows for infinite creative possibilities!

‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’- The Spoffit species are in trouble and you need to pass legislation to save them! A fun twist on a civics lesson and inspired by the 1970s TV show Schoolhouse Rock, you must lobby, ultimately turning a bill into a law.

‘Kaboom!’- It’s time for a Fourth of July celebration! The picnic is all set up, the fire’s ready for s’mores, but there’s a problem with the fireworks display. Can you help the Independence Day picnic go off with a BANG?

Spore Galactic Adventures, the expansion to the critically-acclaimed game Spore, is designed to expand the Spore universe. Spore Galactic Adventures delivers hilarious new adventures to players who aspire to become their own space captain, beam down to strange new planets, create customized adventures and take their favorite Spore creature from zero to galactic hero!

With the Adventure Creator, gamers are able to realize their most outlandish, challenging and fun adventure fantasies (like ‘Kaboom!’ and ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’) by creating personalized missions. This easy-to-use tool gives players the ability to not only create, but play and share missions with friends online at www.spore.com. With more than 105 million creations available in the Sporepedia, the Spore library of user-generated content for use in players’ missions, the only limit is their imaginations!

Check out ‘Kaboom!’, ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’ and more than 30,000 missions in Spore Galactic Adventures at www.spore.com/sporepedia!

Follow us on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/MaxisSpore and check out tons of cool videos at: www.youtube.com/spore

7/1/09 – 3 new Spore API Apps

What a way to kick start the month of July – 3 new Spore API apps were found viewing this thread in the Sporums.

Sporecast Signature
Source: The Sporums
Copyright: Nightgunner5

A 158-line PHP script to generate a forum signature with a latest Sporecast asset. It only needs three lines of configuration (one is optional) and a base image like this one. (A template is included in the .zip.)

Here’s how you can use it:

Download the code from here.

On lines 3 and 4 of sig.php, change the Sporecast ID and (optionally) the font location.
On line 2 of .htaccess, change the /spore/ to the location on your website the files are. For example, if sig.php is accessible at http://example.com/sporesig/sig.php, use RewriteBase /sporesig/

Upload it to your server and go to the sig.php file. You’ll get a few error messages, but don’t worry. Refresh the page and the error messages will be gone and your signature will be there!

The signature will only update once every 10 minutes to make it faster.

Sporecast Voting
Source: Sporecast Voting website
Copyright: Nightgunner5

Allows anyone to vote for the best creatures in any given Sporecast. Each IP address can vote once per creature per Sporecast. Captain stats are partially supported via the model XML.

Sporecast ID can be changed in the URL on the site.

Sporistics
Source: Sporistic’s Website
Copyright: AtomicDay

Sporistics is a simple Sporepedia viewer. You can see the best rated creations, the most important, the newest, etc. You can also see user profiles: buddies, achievements, creations, Sporecasts… The creation viewer shows info about the selected creation: description, rating, comments and, if it’s a creature, height, diet, abilities… All in one.

Galactic Adventures Storyboard Contest – Winners Announced!

The results are in from the Storyboard Contest held awhile back.  MaxisCactus and the team have the results in this forum post.

Storyboard contest winners announced!

1st place: Afterfate for “The Meaningless Turtle”

Afterfate authored the winning storyboard called “The Meaningless Turtle”.

Maxoids Ian Armstrong, John Cimino and Guillaume Pierre recreated Afterfate’s story in Galactic Adventures to make it into an official Maxis adventure! Download and play the mission.

Download and play the adventure simply by opening your Spore game and choosing it in the Maxis adventure Sporecast.

Storyboard Images By Afterfate


Adventure Preview by Maxis

MaxisCimino wrote: After reading the storyboards it became clear to me that the player had created a rather interesting fable-like story that had very distinct characters with clear motivations. I had a lot of fun working with those characters and designing the environments to match their individual personalities. I especially enjoyed creating the temple for the Guru of Wealth …which, of course, had to be made of solid, sparkling gold.

MaxisIan wrote: The storytelling style kind of reminded me of an old myth or fable, complete with gurus and the meaning of life! It parallels something you might see in the stereotypical interpretation of eastern philosophies, where the hero travels great distances to find a wise man sitting under the tree of knowledge/power/something else symbolic.

2nd place: KrakenMK for “Evynwire Scroll Quest”

Thanks to everyone who submitted, it was a tough choice!

G4 – Spore Galactic Adventures PC review

The Good

• Endless variety of content
• Very powerful and simple toolset
• Very creative missions

The Bad

• Missions are a little buggy
• Adventures only add a little to the overall game

Read more

New York Times – Spore Galactic Adventures review

While I know everyone has their own opinions and sometimes shares a different view when it comes to reviewing video games, it seems that the following editor over at the New York Times has something lodged up their butt when it comes to Spore Galactic Adventures.  A majority of the article is a complaint that Spore Galactic Adventures should of been a separate stand-alone game.  Ummmm…Too cheap to afford the base game there, buddy?  It’s called an Expansion Pack for a reason.  If you would of stated it should of been in the base game to begin with, I can see your point…but this process of expansions has been going on ever since the original Sims series…

Most of the levels included with the game are almost embarrassingly mundane: kill the enemies, defend the base from attackers, escort some dude from here to there, collect an arbitrary number of doodads, race the course as fast as you can. By contrast LittleBigPlanet also revolves around allowing players to create their own content, but its maker, Media Molecule, set an incredibly high bar in demonstrating what its own tools were capable of.

Nothing is essentially wrong with charging good money for a virtual tool kit. Yet the environments in Galactic Adventures cannot sustain the basic suspension of disbelief required to care about any digital construct. Common logic suggests that when a wall, a building or some other “solid” stands between two creatures, you can’t just shoot or move through it. In Galactic Adventures you can. I found myself jumping into the middle of supposedly solid structures and then shooting through the walls at foes who couldn’t see me, not a few times but over and over.

review here (big ole’ meanie)

Sputnik Observatory: Extraordinary minds shaping modern thought

Sputnik Observatory is a brand new website that features over 200 interviews with some of the greatest minds in our day.  Will Wright is one of those brilliant minds – there are a number of interviews published with some of his thoughts.  Here’s what I’ve gathered:

• Will Wright – 21 Senses:  Brain Filter
• Will Wright – Juncture:  Possibility Space
  
• Will Wright – Specification:  Sphere of Mind
• Will Wright – Hidden:  Fill-in Blanks
  

These videos are dated 2003, hence SimCity 4 in the background

Gaikai Test Demo – Spore streaming thru Firefox

CVG reports of a new gaming service dubbed ‘Gaikai’ in which will allow the ability to play computer games setup on a remote server straight thru your Internet browser.  He takes a moment to showcase some of the game’s, with Spore as his first demonstration.  Personally, I think this is a huge step forward for gaming – those who know little about computer hardware but love to play Computer games would find the most use from this.  No longer will they have to consider purchasing a new computer; as long as their internet connection is good they’ll be able to play games straight from the servers.

There are some questions that arise…Spore is mostly a game where you get the most out of it by using creations from the Sporepedia.  No idea how this will work regarding this service…

“Gaikai is a revolutionary new technology that lets you play any game online in your browser,” says Perry. “In the age of the cloud, when all your documents, email, photos and videos are instantly reachable online, it seems archaic that you still need to install gigabytes of game files on an expensive PC with an even more expensive video card. And even then you can only play from that specific computer.”

Perry continued: “We are not in competition with any other streaming company or technology. Our goals are really simple, to remove all the friction between hearing about a game and trying it out, to help reduce the cost of gaming, to grow videogame audiences, to raise the revenue that publishers and developers can earn, and (most importantly) to make games accessible everywhere.”

More information regarding this project can be found at the creator’s webpage, Dave Perry.

GameSpy – The Consensus: Spore Galactic Adventures Review

Another Spore Galactic Adventures review popped up, this time courtesy of GameSpy:

Pros:  Everything you wanted to do, that they didn’t already do, you can now do.

Cons: Okay, not really. It’s still got a few pretty in-yer-face limitations, a bug or 26, and some tedium.

The verdict?  You’ll have to head on to GameSpy to find out!

The Sims 3 Team presents ‘Spore Galactic Adventures’ Give-Away on Facebook

A message that was passed along to me from The Sims 3 Team on Facebook:

To celebrate the release of Spore’s Expansion Pack, “Spore Galactic Adventures,” we wanted to give you guys a chance to get your very own copy! Next week, we will be hosting the Spore Galactic Adventures Give-Away. To receive your digital download code of Spore and the Expansion Pack (Spore Galactic Adventures), just remain active on our The Sims 3 Facebook Fan Page. It’s as simple as that! Comment on our updates or post links, pictures and videos and you could be the lucky Simmer to win a copy Spore and its Expansion pack.

We will announce winners everyday so make sure you are able to receive personal messages from us. See you then.

-The Sims Web Team

When next week hits, I’ll be sure to remind everyone once again!