Quarter Million 'Spore' Creatures Created

Posted by Stephen Johnson - Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:46 AM

Over 250,000 creatures were created in 24 hours using the Spore Creature Creator released on Tuesday. That means, according to Electronic Arts' math, two creatures are created for the Mac and PC Universe simulator every second. The total is nearing 400,000 now.

“The response to the Spore Creature Creator has been overwhelming,” said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. “The creativity and passion that the community is putting into their creatures is spectacular. The development team has spent the last 24 hours checking out the amazing creations racing in from all corners of the globe – with peak volume hitting more than 1,000 creatures being shared a minute.”

Estimates that over 98% of the creatures created represent human genitalia have yet to be confirmed, as I made them up. At the risk of digression, when I think "User Created Content" I think "dongs," know what I'm saying?

Anyway, bet your own free Creature Creator, and create your own space-weenus-creature, at Spore.com.

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Posted by tedcwilliams - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:02 AM

I'm usually not that much of a PC gamer, but this game has me very excited, and judging by the stats coming out from the Beta test run with the creature creator, a lot of other people are excited too. It'll surprise no one that Spore will be a huge success, but the real question will be HOW succesful it will be.

One quick question: I see on the tags line at the end of this story that the DS, PC and PS3 are linked, but are those the only three platforms that this game is coming out for (my apologies if this question had been answered previously, I'm just curious on what options I'll have when picking up this game...and if this title will push me to finally purchase a PS3 [as right now I only have the 360 and Wii]).

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Posted by StrangeOne - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:09 AM

im gonna create my own creature...with black jack and hookers

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Posted by sjohnson - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:12 AM

Edited!

Ted: Spore has only officially been announced for the PC and the Mac. The rumor is it's going to show up on other platforms though.

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Posted by yoshiarecool - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:14 AM

I didn't make my creature look like a dick... I did give it 8 pairs of eyes on his a$$ though

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Posted by roryoldham - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:14 AM

@ tedcwilliams...
Spore is coming out for more platforms. The TAGS are in alphabetical order and only use so many spaces.

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Posted by tedcwilliams - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:16 AM

Lets hope those rumors are true (I know its sacreligous to go against PC gaming, but I'm a hardcore Noob, so I'd rather sit on my couch and play instead of at a desk).

Oh, and I think that this story will be the jumping board for the term "dong" being brought back into the mainstream vocabulary (kudos, Mr. Johnson...oh my God! You can use your last name to describe "User Created Content" too! I bet that's the first time you've heard THAT one before!).

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Posted by sjohnson - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:32 AM

Yeah. First time!

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Posted by Westx - Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:59 AM

that screen shot isn't from the editor is it? If so I have a very very dumbed down demo version haha.

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Posted by hectorv1979 - Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:04 AM

yeah um most of my creations have "happy parts" i have issues lol

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Posted by Joreel - Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:07 AM

Westx... the pix is from the full version of the creature creator. You just have to buy the full version for $10.

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Posted by husker_360 - Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:07 AM

@StrangeOne

You know what? Forget the blackjack!

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Posted by TheWolfMI - Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:17 PM

SteJo... you're weird man. Weird in an awesome way, but still. I mean, thinking that 95% of them would look genitalia is just nutty.

It's gota be a lot closer to 90%, not 95%.

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Posted by slimmer - Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:21 PM

Whats up with the B/W drawing where the one creature is holding a spear ? did someone at G4 do that ?
G4 is the worst sometimes.

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