A week with Spore Creature Creator: Day One
by Ross Miller 
{ Jun 17th 2008 at 7:00AM }
While we've got no Murlocs today, we did try our hand at making a Moogle. Check out all our creations via the gallery below. Each one contains a link to the creature's respective Sporepedia page where you can download and edit our work.
Gallery: One week with Spore Creatures
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joe H @ Jun 17th 2008 7:29AM
Very disappointed with the demo.
Basically, where is the physics?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZgQuyZRTk
Joe P @ Jun 17th 2008 1:28PM
Personally I think that your main problem is believing that basic biology applies to this title. For example, the creature you provided, who's to say that the upper bulbous portion isn't filled with helium or somehow floats and all it needs is a little foot to drag it around? Or perhaps it can propel itself some other way and uses the foot to steer?
Spore isn't supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be a game with a really powerful editor that can let you make some amazing creatures, physics be damned.
SGT Grumbles @ Jun 17th 2008 3:36PM
The point of Spore is that you can create anything you want without the game telling you you're wrong.
Imagine if you finally picked out all the parts and colors for your creature only to find it flop around on the ground.
Tina @ Jun 20th 2008 3:21PM
Yeah I know... where are the physics? Didn't all the demos they showed us pride themselves on the physics (Robin William's creature sagged with weight, lol... I wouldn't care if my creatures sagged a ton because they defied gravity so much, better than randomly floating). Maybe it's just in the real game the physics will be back. I sorta like the challenge of making a balanced creature, both functionally and physically.
David Herbert @ Jun 17th 2008 7:30AM
Ah. I see that you downloaded it as well. I downloaded it yesterday but didn't have the time to play with it. I'll try it out sometime today and write a preview of it on Pariah's Guild (www.pariahs-guild.com)
BMErdin @ Jun 17th 2008 7:34AM
I really hope this comes to the consoles cause my older than Methuselah PC can't quite handle it.
Joolies @ Jun 17th 2008 7:46AM
The physics is something thats very annoying to me too. Its just not possible!
Ghede @ Jun 17th 2008 8:04AM
Au contraire, it is quite possible. Smaller planet with lower gravity, air bladders filled with helium produced as a byproduct of diet, antigravity appendix... the list goes on! The appendix is stretching it, but I couldn't resist the alliteration.
Clipping limbs? Gelatinous.
FrankTheCrank @ Jun 17th 2008 8:50AM
I smell another Boom Blox here. Sorry, just sayin'.
mr mobius @ Jun 17th 2008 1:33PM
Possibly but BB received no hype in comparison to Spore. Maybe Spore'll end up like GTA 4 and Halo 3 though where people begin to realise there are faults after the hype dies down a bit.
monkeys_suck @ Jun 17th 2008 1:42PM
Then you obviously forget this is made by the famous Will Wright, creator of The Sims, one of the most famous games in the industry. This isn't a movie maker trying to put a spin on games.
voodoo_craig @ Jun 17th 2008 8:50AM
Take a look at the second pic down, now that's the first thing I'm gonna do when I get hold of it.
http://b3ta.com/board/8464484
Sora267 @ Jun 17th 2008 11:40AM
NSFW warning pl0x!
Drew @ Jun 17th 2008 12:41PM
Spoiler: the link has a Spore penis creature.
Phil @ Jun 17th 2008 9:03AM
So when does this actually come out? EA's website still says to return on June 17th... but it IS June 17th... and the EA Store says it's available on June 18th, not the 17th.
StrangeBum @ Jun 17th 2008 9:24AM
I need to download this as soon as I get home. I've been waiting and waiting for this and am surprised I didn't pick it up sooner.
I've been out of touch with the tech world quite a bit lately.
Xoviet chiK @ Jun 17th 2008 10:07AM
Trial runs pretty well on Mac, surprising considering it's a Cider port. Might upgrade to the full version if I can figure out how to not make my creatures look like arse!
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/Xoviet
Best I could come up with :P
chispito @ Jun 17th 2008 11:31AM
So if I buy the creature creator now, do I get a discount on the full version later? I don't want to buy the same thing twice.
Zoinks @ Jun 17th 2008 1:55PM
Generally no, you won't get a discount on the full game I don't believe.
But right now Amazon is giving $5 towards a future purchase of the full game. So this makes the creator only $5 instead of $10 if you buy both from them.
mr mobius @ Jun 17th 2008 1:40PM
4chan has far better versions. I've been bored lately and found out from them about the Spore demo.