A week with Spore Creatures: Conclusion

by Ross Miller { Jun 20th 2008 at 8:30AM }

In our quest to familiarize ourselves with the laws of nature (and subsequently defy them), this week we're going to share at least five abominations, one each day, that we've concocted in Spore Creature Creator. You can keep track of this our progress via our various profile pages:

For the final day, we tried to commit ourselves to pulling out all the stops, but a very long day of blogging left us with some epic failures that will never see the light of day (e.g. Big Bird). We do feel, however, that we have a much better understanding of Spore's limitations. (You can read about them in our gallery.) You can see all the creatures from the week starting here. Each page contains a link to the creature's respective Sporepedia page where you can download and edit our work.

Gallery: One week with Spore Creatures

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

GearSecond!! (a.k.a AwesomeStuff) @ Jun 20th 2008 8:48AM

The Kermit one looks kinda cool

Chase @ Jun 20th 2008 11:26AM

I think it's creepy. It's the eyes, man. The damn eyes. Oh my god, where's my bagel?!

mr mobius @ Jun 20th 2008 12:40PM

Devil eyes!

The mouth makes him look mentally retarded though.

Habiib @ Jun 20th 2008 9:02AM

You can make one arm. You have to drag the 2 base nodes for the arms into each other, then the two elbow nodes, and finally the two hand nodes.

I find that sometimes the single hand likes to jump to weird angles though.

GoldenS1104 @ Jun 20th 2008 9:49AM

There's another way to do it too. What you can do instead is make one leg where you want the arm to go. Then delete the foot and replace it with a hand.

Kuipo @ Jun 20th 2008 11:32AM

You can rotate the hands to look better (or almost any object in the game) by holding the TAB button before clicking on the object. That will give you 360 degrees rotation on everything but feet.

Ross Miller @ Jun 20th 2008 1:54PM

Thanks guys!

tlarkin79 @ Jun 20th 2008 9:19AM

You actually were able to use it? I bought the full version, installed it, but either the game or the EA Download Manager is now preventing my computer from connecting to EA.com to activate the game. The DRM has effectively crippled my computer, and uninstalling the game and EA download manager has not fixed the issue.

This games DRM is broken and I would not recomment anyone install EA games on their computers because of it.

Definitely a 1 out of 10 for me, because I can't even get the game to start, and I'm not the only one on the Spore forums with this problem.

Habiib @ Jun 20th 2008 10:11AM

What I had to do:

1. Uninstall trial version fully.
2. Re-install Spore from the EA manager

If it crashes after the EA logo (like mine did) you have to go into the Sporebin folder and move the DWsomethingorother file to the desktop. I'm at work and don't remember the actual name of the file, but there aren't many files in that folder and I'm sure you will notice it.

After that, it worked fine for me.

Arthur Gustafson @ Jun 20th 2008 10:13AM

ironically, I had to uninstall the EA downloader in order to play the game.
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/Hinkmania

offday @ Jun 20th 2008 9:27AM

I just picked this up at wal mart yesterday for 10 bucks, and so far I'm having a blast. But I don't see the point in "re-creating" creatures. That's boring. The original ones are a lot more fun.

finnith @ Jun 20th 2008 10:26AM

So you're saying you don't want to see Kermit the Frog duking it out when Spore is released?

Room 303 @ Jun 20th 2008 11:11AM

I agree with offday. Re-creating is fun for about an hour, just to see what twisted interpretations Spore is capable of. But the real fun comes in creating something that is truly your own.

vectorelement @ Jun 20th 2008 11:36AM

ZOMG! It's teh Burninator!!11

Obie @ Jun 20th 2008 1:50PM

Burninating the peasants!

DBuck_Eye @ Jun 20th 2008 1:09PM

I have a serious question. I downloaded the demo to this and I like it, but I feel like I'm missing some stuff that would probably be in the full version. So my question is this: If I buy the Full version of the creator, can I buy a discounted version of Spore (only enough to bring the total cost to the full game's price) whenever it comes out?