Will Wright discusses various elements of Spore. He covers the different stages of evolution in the game, the AI built into the creature creator and tells a good story about a really mad cow.
The millionth creature was created by user FlamingChidori and was named Sapiusgeenus. It's two-legged and green, and can be viewed over at Spore.com - which is also the place to go if you want to download the Creature Creator.
By design, Spore is all-encompassing, with nigh infinite possibilities for gameplay, from crafting the very essence of life to managing entire galaxies. But sometimes, you have to go to the bathroom, it's a scientific fact. For those moments, there's the Spore Galactic Edition announced today by Gamestop, available for $79.99.
Just to update this (as of typing this, from spore.com): Total number of creatures uploaded: 461613 Total number of users: 255997 Creatures uploaded in last 24 hours: 207295 New users in last 24 hours: 69738
The full Creator tool is phenomenal. And to think, this creature stage is just ONE thing that can be edited...cellular beings, buildings, vehicles...this is just the tip of the iceberg!
@lstormy10, Here is a link to the press release in pure form. As you can see, EA never stated anything about the current number of creatures created but only the 250,000 in a day and peak uploading of 1,000 a minute.
The Spore Creature Creator is turning out to be "marketing genius" as I remember someone saying.
@afsplat, i can't stop laughing since yesterday i saw a discussion about how many of those are already on youtube as genitalia... give people a content creation tool and ... taaadaaa :))
@vGInfidel, They did not announce it at 360,000. That is the number of creatures that were uploaded when GameSpot looked at the website. EA and Maxis merely announced the 250,000 creatures in a day. Different media outlets have different numbers for the total number of creatures created - depending on when they looked at the site. :P
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