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Name: Menacing Blue Citadel
Type: Building (HQ)
Description: This menacing blue citadel has a number of locations from which the ruler may address his faithful minions.

Notes:
The Headquarters building is the first building you create once you make the step into the Civilization phase of the game.
Painting buildings is both very easy, but also very difficult. Picking the right texture to mix with the right colour and which part of the building should be what colour can be troublesome when you want the buildings to match the creature’s colouration. My creatures are so vain!

There’s plenty of presets available for buildings, just as there are for creatures, and the textures available are equally extensive. Eventually I managed to get something I was happy with.

Being a militaristic civilization I decided to have a lot of spikes on the buildings and to have them look menacing in general. On reflection though, black and dark blue is perhaps not the best combination since it makes everything look very dark and indistinguishable. Not a big problem for the buildings since you don’t typically interact with them, but if you’ve been unfortunate enough to face some of my vehicles during a planet’s night… I apologise. ;-)

Note that the image is clickable this time. It’s not possible to get a black background shot of the buildings (as far as I know) so I had to take one with the background, so I left the image a little larger, too.

Sporepedia: Menacing Blue Citadel

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To say that this was a tough decision would be an understatement. To say that I am actually kind of glad I didn’t get hundreds of entries would be even more of an understatement. I can only imagine trying to pick and choose a mere 5 from so many, it was agony enough trying to choose from those I did receive!

Please note that at the time of this writing the Sporepedia is down. Links and/or images may be broken if it isn’t back up by the time this is posted. If any of the links/images turn out to be the wrong ones when the Sporepedia is up again, let me know!

But without further ado and in no particular order, the winning entries:

Disco Danica by Legodragonxp.

Why it won: Purple leg warmers! Awesome!

Also had a great compilation dance clip provided and Disco Danica grooves quite well.

While green and purple are not usually a colour combination I would think of, they work well for this creature.

Inferno Dee by IamMe.

Why it won: Big poofy hair and bright colours make this guy somewhat worthy, but what really sold me on choosing this guy is the effort gone to for the description.

When the Sporepedia is up again, I highly advise checking it out!

Pluffer by Marrow.

Why it won: A great big puffball of hair and a very retro paintstyle that makes it look like he’s wearing some kind of pantsuit.

The 70s in particular were very much about peace, love and mungbeans (baby) so the description helped Pluffer over the line!

Pscyhedelica by psychedelicsim.

Why it won: Pink and green? Only in the 80s, man! Only in the 80s!

Another good description and another good dance video helped get Psychedelica across the line.

Not to mention the name!

Disco Stew by Fobok.

Why it won: Well, look. He looks kind of funky.

He dances kind of funky.

He has a funky description.

But mostly… It’s a Simpsons joke. And that’s just groovy!

Congratulations to all the winners and make sure to check your emails (and junk mail) carefully. If you still haven’t got your notification by the weekend, please let me know and I’ll resend it. :-)

Name: Squeeny

Description:
Currently Squeeny doesn’t have a description in the Sporepedia, a situation I will rectify later!

Notes:
A departure from my usual daily post today, because I run the full version in fullscreen, rather than windowed like the Creature Creator. This makes it a little more difficult to get the relevant statistics out of the game. And, well, do the statistics really matter? Add me as a buddy and you can check my stuff out in the full version anyway. ;)

The reason I chose to have Squeeny be today’s entry is that he’s also my very first creature to make it through the Creature stage of the game. Most of the changes from when he first stepped out of the water and onto land were fairly minor, except towards the end where he sprouted arms and started to add some armour plating to help deal with some of the more dangerous wildlife on my starting planet.

Ultimately Squeeny proved quite adept at surviving in a very rough world. I managed to get the achievement for not having died during the Creature phase. No mean feat, considering I survived one ambush by an Epic and a nest invasion from another!
And both Epic creatures were things I created! Was very thankful I didn’t create them to be tough, just cute and/or goofy!

Sporepedia: Squeeny

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After the “scheduled maintenance” period for the Sporepedia there’s been a few updates made - check them out now!

Highlights:

• Creations from creators other than the Creature one are now showing up.
• Sporecasts are now available!
• You can now add a creator to your buddy list from a creation’s details page. Just hit the gold plus sign beside their by-line.
• The creations can be sorted by a number of criteria, from tribal creatures to UFOs to vehicles to buildings.

Anyone seen any other neat new features?

At this point creatures still heavily outweigh all the other creations on the Sporepedia but with more and more people getting their hands on the game now it’s only a matter of time before you start seeing a lot more than just creatures popping up.

Sorry I’m a little late on the notification for everyone but to be clear - any “entries” submitted for the competition from here on in will definitely not be counted. You can still create something to match the theme, if you like, but you won’t be in the running to win a copy of the game.

For those of you who did enter, I have not yet decided who will win… And it may be a few hours until I can, since the Sporepedia is down right now for mysterious upgrades.

The winners will be announced later today, hopefully, both here on the site and via email to the winners, so stay tuned!