Archive for the “Other Creatures” Category

As of today the Sporepedia now plays host to more than half a million creatures in less than a week since the initial leak of the Creature Creator.

Whilst the pace is likely to slacken somewhat from here as people get over the initial rush, it’s looking like the million creature mark will be hit by the end of the month. Which is a staggering number of creations.

Currently the number of registered users sits around the 270,000 mark, which means the average number of creatures uploaded to the Sporepedia is only two a piece. Perhaps a result of the widespread issues players are having with the game losing creatures if you try and upload too many?

As yet there is no word on a patch for the Creator, but one would hope it’s not too far off.

To celebrate hitting the 500,000 creature mark, here’s a selection of some of the current high-rated creatures on the Sporepedia!

Following on from yesterday’s leaking of the Creature Creator, the Sporepedia has now surpassed a monstrous 13,000 creatures, with over 12,000 of those being uploaded within the last 24 hours.

As a result, Maxis have shut the login feature of the Creature Creator Trial down, telling everyone they need to come back on the official launch date. When attempting to login, gamers will receive the following notice:

It is unclear at this stage whether gamers who used the illegitimate version will be punished, but it seems unlikely - many of the 12,000 players who registered in the last 24 hours probably did not have permission, but if they find they’ve been banned over this they may be less inclined to purchase the full game, and that’s not publicity EA and Maxis will want.

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And another random sampling of creatures from the Sporepedia!

(If you happen to have the Creature Creator, you need to save the thumbnailed versions, not the full size ones. Which is why I’m displaying the thumbnails now instead of the full size images!)

[Update]

The Trial version of the Creature Creator is now available via Internode. See this post for details on how to download the Spore Creature Creator!

[Update #2]

The full version of the Creature Creator is now available. See this post for early details.

Those lucky sods who have their hands on the Creature Creator already continue to churn out all kinds of kooky designs. At last count there were 1,208 individual creatures listed on the Sporepedia… No, 1,217! 1,218!

Yes, the number is steadily climbing upwards. Where before it may take a couple of hours to see the number increase you can now check every couple of minutes and expect to see some more creatures.

But on the less happy side of things today, I still can’t find any sign that the Creature Creator will be available in Australia.

It isn’t on the EA Store and it isn’t listed on any game retailer sites. For a game that is supposed to be released next Tuesday, that is extremely unusual.

I contacted EA Support in an attempt to get an answer as to whether Australians will receive the game but unfortunately they only deal with technical support, nothing like this. The fine gentleman at EA did give me detailed instructions on how to ask on their official forums. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Spore forum, so there isn’t anywhere to ask!

It’s possible that it will simply turn up on the store next week when we can actually play it for ourselves, but I’m sure I’m not the only Aussie who’d been hoping to preorder it to ensure it would be available to play upon release.

If anyone at EA happens to read this and can tell me what the situation is, please click here to get my email address and drop me a line or leave a note in the comments. If anyone else knows what is going on, feel free to do the same.

So this post doesn’t end on a somewhat sour note, here’s another selection of creatures from the Sporepedia!

“Quadraspike” by vonboy

“Cygranite” by EntropyGuardian

“Longcat” by Keatsta

To help everyone cope with the seemingly unending wait for the game, here are another couple of interesting creatures scraped out of the YouTube barrel.

First cab off the rank is “Old Man of the Mountain” whom you might remember I posted yesterday?

More after the break.
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It seems that a lot more folks are getting their hands on the Creature Creator as the official release date creeps ever closer. Over a hundred have been added since the last time I checked, with the usual huge variety of crazy, creepy and just plain weird creatures being added!

Some favourites today:

“Hiding Away“, by MaxisEditorAlex.

“Old Man of the Mountain“, by MaxisKate

“Freeze Dirtbag“, by MaxisJohn

And, “Omega Bush“, by MaxisKate, who writes that it is “The last shrubbery you’ll ever see.” Ominous!

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