The informational pages have gone up two days early on the website for The Daily Telegraph, detailing how you get your hands on the Creature Creator:
Q. Where can I obtain a Spore Creature Creator PC Game?
A. It’s FREE with a token from The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 2 August.
Q. My Spore Creature Creator disk was not in my paper when I purchased it. What do I do?
A. The FREE PC Game is not inserted into the paper itself. You need to cut the token from page 2 of the paper and present it to your newsagent to redeem your Spore Creature Creator disk.
There’s also an address you can send the token in to in order to get your disk, if the newsagent has run out or if you nick a copy out of someone’s garbage or something.
Today’s paper also has a short little pictorial guide to the creator which raises a concern - the pictures show the trial version of the creator, not the full version, as there are clearly parts that are greyed out. This is probably just an error. But, well, the paper costs a buck, and if it’s the trial version it’ll give you a great reason to be even more angry at EA!
… and one other little tidbit. The paper’s Spore FAQ includes September 4th as the release date for the full game. I guess we’re getting it before everyone else to make up for getting boned on the Creature Creator?
There’s a Creature Creator Manual to download from this page.
The FAQ is here.
A little blurb about the offer is here.
Note that while all this is coming from the Daily Telegraph site I would expect the other papers’ (Herald Sun and Courier-Mail) offer to be exactly the same in every way.
Notes:
I decided I wanted another creature with strangely placed legs. Bue Blird has feet that are actually in front of his head, though the legs are attached right near the backside.
Then I had a problem. It looked kind of plain that way. So I decided to add some feathers over the body and a pair of wings to give the creature a bit more mobility. And as it turns out that gives the Bue Blird some really high mobility with a decent jump and glide value, plus a maxed out Sprint!
Useful, seeing as it’s a herbivore and doesn’t have a great set of attacks available.
Description: The pentabulbicus is the current intergalactic record holder for “most days able to survive without water” - 74.
The fatty bulbs of the body can each store a sizeable amount of water, which is useful as their homeworld only receives rain twice a year.
A prominent scientist from a nearby planet has theorised that if all the pentabulbicuses were exterminated their homeworld would be much more suitable for colonisation as he has predicted the rainfall would increase tenfold.
Despite the scientist’s compatriots having engaged in genocide before, even they have been unable to stomach killing even a single pentabulbicus. They’re just so cute!
Notes:
The section of the description that starts at the “prominent scientist” is all bonus content that couldn’t fit on the standard edition of the creature, or “The One That’s On The Sporepedia.” Pesky character limits!
After writing about Knobblyhead yesterday I wanted to revisit the whole “blobby body, skinny neck” thing and so today I created Pentabulbicus!
Originally it was going to be called Tribulbicus, but he has bulby thighs too, so that didn’t seem right.
Anyone who plans on picking up the Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, or Courier-Mail on Saturday will be in for a pleasant surprise. Included with the newspaper is a free copy of the full-version Spore Creature Creator.
How in the heck they decided this was a good way to promote the game remains a mystery, but for Australian fans who have not already tiptoed around the regional lockouts this looks like your chance!
And it will apparently be your only chance as it is a one time offer.
Even if you already have the full version it may be worth picking yourself up a copy of one of the aforementioned papers as there may be a special deal on offer…
The disc also comes with what an EA spokesperson has called an “AU$15 off per-order at EB [Games stores]“, but refused to go into more detail.
Of course there’s no guarantee EB will have the cheapest price and you may be able to get it for less elsewhere, but if you usually buy from EB anyway…
But victory my fellow Australians! We’re finally going to see a release of the Creature Creator here, a mere month and a half after it was released everywhere else! Hooray!
Description: Officially designated “Knobblyhead” by the Galactic Species Naming Tribune, the Glorkax of Splorfle 9 have since broken ties with the Intergalactic United Nations.
Notes:
The description is a little awkward but the gist is meant to be that the Knobblyheads don’t like being known as Knobblyheads.
They’re called Knobblyheads because they have lots of little knobs on the top of their heads. I suppose I could’ve called them purple monkey knobheads, but I decided against that.
When creating this guy I was experimenting some more with making “neck” areas of the torso. Seems to work fairly well, the head bobbles around quite well on top of the neck, especially while dancing. I may have to make more creatures with a neck!
Download this creature:
Sporepedia: Can’t link directly to creatures in the Sporepedia anymore, it seems? If anyone knows how to find the URL now, please let me know in the comments. :-)
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Name: Bue Blird
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Name: Pentabulbicus
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