The next evolution in gaming is upon us. From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes SPORE, an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space.

Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then use the fun, intuitive Editors to evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race. Guide your species as it builds (and the player designs) villages, buildings, cities, and vehicles. Along the way to becoming a global civilization you can choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade, be nice or play rough!

All the action takes place in a huge, lush world populated with creatures evolved by other players and shared over SPORE's central servers. When it's ready, your one-time pond scum launches into space in its UFO on a grand voyage of discovery, planet forming, or destruct-ion! As you explore and play in this limitless universe of unique worlds, your personal Sporepedia tracks all the creatures you've met and places you've visited.

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Spore's Creature Creator has launched, allowing people all over the globe to create the their own organisms in a seemingly inexhaustible array of configurations. With almost half a million creatures entered into the Sporepedia as of writing, it seems Spore could be the most content-rich game in history.


Hundreds of Spore creature videos litter Youtube, many which can be classified as Sporn — a term coined by the charismatic writers over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Phallic demons aside, it would appear that Spore scratches a creative itch many might not have known they had in the first place. It grants the the ability to birth a creation in minutes. Something that would take any talented artist the better part of a day —at the very least— to do using conventional methods. Still, I can't help but think that Spore's flexible editor might just be a starting point for many who want to delve deeper into the depths of user-generated content and mods.


Being and amateur animator and modeler myself, I was only temporarily sated with all the offerings of the creature creator. After creating my first few, I found myself wondering if users will be able to import custom body parts. Previous Sims titles have thrived on the ability to add in customized content even though the process was far more painful and unwieldy. This time around Spore relies heavily on procedurally generated data, so it's questionable whether or not it will be possible. Implementing something like it would boost the content options infinitely and the game would truly take on a life of its own.


So with games like Spore and Little Big Planet on the horizon, Do-it-yourself gaming is poised to be the next big thing. It may be a bit of a leap but nothing is more DIY, in gaming terms, than making your own mod. Games like Spore will turn others onto modding, people with a fresh perspective and a yearning to take their creativity to the next level. All I'll ask is, please be friendly when they do come around :)

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Bobs Mod

Bobs Mod

Aug 13, 2008 Full Version 0 comments

This is a small mod that adds another race to the Spore Space Prototype. Please keep in mind that this will replace several of the default files. Having...

Spore Creature Creator - Manual

Spore Creature Creator - Manual

Aug 10, 2008 Full Version 0 comments

english manual for the Spore Creature Crator!!!!!!!!!!!

Spore Creature Creator Patch v1 - Basic Version

Spore Creature Creator Patch v1 - Basic Version

Aug 10, 2008 Patch 1 comment

PC players have the option of their game to date with patches to fix bugs, the gameplay to improve or new functions. To automatically be examined to patches...

Spore Creature Creator Patch v1 - Premium Version

Spore Creature Creator Patch v1 - Premium Version

Aug 10, 2008 Patch 1 comment

PC players have the option of their game to date with patches to fix bugs, the gameplay to improve or new functions. To automatically be examined to patches...

SporeScope 0.7 (Firefox Add-on)

SporeScope 0.7 (Firefox Add-on)

Aug 10, 2008 Other 0 comments

Improves the Sporepedia website (www.spore.com/sporepedia), and the related Spore Profiles website (www.spore.com/view/Profile).

SporeScope 0.5 (Firefox Add-on)

SporeScope 0.5 (Firefox Add-on)

Aug 05, 2008 Other 0 comments

Improves the Sporepedia website (www.spore.com/sporepedia), and the related Spore Profiles website (www.spore.com/view/Profile).

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Mckeviin
Mckeviin Aug 15 2008, 11:03am says:

i love this game but i hate that the game users cant make cars and planes and stuff just creatures in the trial version
:(

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Plasmatic
Plasmatic Aug 11 2008, 10:52pm says:

its actully going to be called "Sporn" now since of all the d*** monsters ppl have allready created

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Ori_Child
Ori_Child Aug 5 2008, 9:23am says:

HEY PEOPLE, WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD OR PLAY THE CREATURE CREATOR, SPIN THE GALAXY VERY VERY FAST AND WILL WRITES HEAD APPEARS IN THE MIDDLE!!!

well... i thought it was cool ^^ lol

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MagnusMastah
MagnusMastah Aug 14 2008, 1:30pm replied: Online

That scared the heck out of me the first time, lol

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spoone
spoone Aug 5 2008, 8:59am says:

Wait is this gonna be like the sims where you can choose what you want your character to do? Is this also gonna let you make your own skins and play em in the game? Maybe like a pacman spore?

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coreyd
coreyd Aug 5 2008, 4:53am says: +1 vote     reply to comment
deathbal101
deathbal101 Jul 12 2008, 11:13am says:

is this coming out for Wii?

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drone565
drone565 Jun 20 2008, 1:44am says:

well im thinking of mods like make your own bug or xenomorph

from starshp troppers:bugs

and xenomorph:from the alien quadtrioigly

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Mr_Cyberpunk
Mr_Cyberpunk Jun 19 2008, 2:37am says:

I'm planning on making a content pack for this game, Will setup a profile soon when I get some promotional stuff finalized.. This is going to be GREAT! :D

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Ori_Child
Ori_Child Jun 12 2008, 2:40pm says:

ZOMG thank you!! woo finaly!! this game is gona be awsome!

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