Spore!

Post by **linflas** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:59 pm

i -think- i'm gonna send you sketches...

Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:24 am

So I can make them into 3D creatures? Sure, love to

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Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:03 am

Damn, that creator sure is powerful!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRovPCiBBTw

Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:51 pm

Yeah it's great ain't it

. I wouldn't have thought of using antennae as feet like that, but then I suppose they wouldn't actually act as feet and would just kinda dangle out the back...still, it's all very amazingly fantastically cool

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Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:30 pm

I've made another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHE33PJrV-w

Edit - And another...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJitaKLZFSU

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:49 am

In the praying mantis one, she made a really long spine, it seems longer than your dragon one? Yet you said the dragon spine was as long as it would go?

Post by **Sophia** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:08 pm

I've gotten hooked on this too...

Of course, I had to make some DM creatures too:
A floating beholder

A screamer

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:08 pm

Weeee! Good-o!

Post by **Ameena** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:08 pm

Rofl fantastic...how did you make your Beholder float?
And regarding the mantis vs. dragon spines...maybe the dragon's spine just looks shorter because his body is bulkier - the mantis is obviously a lot slimmer which perhaps makes the spine look longer?

Post by **Sophia** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:50 pm

Ameena wrote:Rofl fantastic...how did you make your Beholder float?

The "bottom" of the creature is taken as its lowest point, whatever that is. So if you give it a very thin tail (I used a whipwick made as small as possible) you'll barely see it but it'll keep the rest of the creature above ground.

Post by **Ameena** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:17 pm

Ahh, clever.
Your Beholder looks so much better than mine, lol.

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:00 pm

Cool. Love the pics guys.

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:11 am

I really want to see that screamer move. Cannot wait for this game to come out.

Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:51 pm

You can see it move if Soph uploads a vid of it doing so onto YouTube

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Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:34 pm

I've made yet another random creation

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfeHkK27mA

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:14 am

Spore Creatures Outnumber Real Ones

According to an AFP report, the number of creatures in the Spore database surpassed the number of known species on Earth in the second week of July, a remarkable effort but not quite enough to beat the Biblical high score. "It took them 18 days to reach the number of creatures on Earth and, by some accounts, it took God six days," Wright said.

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:24 am

Omg haha that's fantastic

. Somehow I've got a feeling this game's gonna sell out rather quickly once it's released...

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:43 am

Yeah, it sure will! I hope I have been able to earn enough cash by then for a new PC!

As if I'll even get any time to play it!

ian_scho · Post by **ian_scho** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:49 am

Pretty impressive numbers, agreed. Yet Spore! has a far simpler creature generator editor than the one that God had to deal with. How God had to work with such archaic tools such as fitting those fiddly internal organs in each body I can't imagine. Modern day creature editors do this sort of stuff in the background for you. So thumbs up for God not forgetting to give us an asshole.

His editor interface must have been bordering on hell, which he infact created himself in a coffee break.

Then there was that tricky terrain creator that God had to deal with, which I anticipate will be an addon for Spore!, called Rocks! You'll get to not only shift those tectonic plates around (with screen refresh rates bordering on what must be a millenia), but weather the rough edges off your favourite mountains too.

Feel free to continue...

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:53 pm

But God doesn't exist...

Ah, wait, I guess someone playing Spore! bought the Omnipotence! addon and used it to create God who then created earth and all it's multitude of life which eventually led to the evolving of us hoomans who eventually created Spore!...

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:41 am

It's Spore, without any punctuation, and the full version has a world builder.

Here are some of my more . . . thought-provoking creatures.

Blorgg

D'urg'thog

Felis Myrmicus

Gilthorp

Flesh-eating Gorthrakk

Hyoo-mahn

Nanny Skeksis

Ugg Durr

X'xeelek Strider

Z'g'grak'k

Edit:

Oh, by the way. . . .

Limitless possibilities

Bit · Post by **Bit** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:41 am

Hyoo-mahn makes me think.
I bet this time the Eve!-module is sooner available than the Adam!-module.

Isn't Spore an anagram of Poser?

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:33 pm

Hey, cool, I like the Skeksis (even though you only gave him two arms) - did you see my urRu? And the Flesh-Eating Gorthrakk is cool too...actually, they're all cool

. Will we get to see vids of them actually moving around and stuff?

mikko · Post by **mikko** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:34 pm

ian_scho wrote:Spore Creatures Outnumber Real Ones

According to an AFP report, the number of creatures in the Spore database surpassed the number of known species on Earth in the second week of July, a remarkable effort but not quite enough to beat the Biblical high score. "It took them 18 days to reach the number of creatures on Earth and, by some accounts, it took God six days," Wright said.

Hm.. The Wiki page on species says the following, "Because of the difficulties with both defining and tallying the total numbers of different species in the world, it is estimated that there are anywhere between 2 and 100 million different species."

Just wondering what number they were using in that AFP report.. Are there over 100 million creatures in the Spore database or over 2 million? I'd say it's more hype than anything else..

MitchB1990 · Post by **MitchB1990** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:11 pm

ANyone finally pre-Order their copy of SPORE yet? got mine last week, I can't wait

. Oh and does anyone know if the release dates changed in the US because I've been reading the 9th and now all of a sudden they took that off and only have the Euro release on the 7th? Did they just absolve the second release date?

Post by **Ameena** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:47 am

Erm, I haven't checked but when I first found out about hte UK release date (the 5th), it said the US release date was the 7th. Whether or not that's changed I'm afraid I have no clue.
Looking forward to Friday, anyway. Yaaaaay it finally comes out

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beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:43 pm

Lol, do I lose my meat grinding partner now? 0.o

Post by **Ameena** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:38 pm

Lol...eww...
And no you won't...I've been addicted to TQ since I started playing that and you haven't noticed, have you?

The problem will come, when I get Spore...drop TQ for it, or finish TQ irst, then start Spore...?

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:05 am

Trantor wrote:And that Penis Monster is THE funniest thing I have seen all month.

You mean those 657892362409+- penis monsters in the internet?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:44 am

Ameena wrote:Lol...eww...

Wow, where did thta come from. Filthy mind, that's where...

And no you won't...I've been addicted to TQ since I started playing that and you haven't noticed, have you?

You can pretty much assume that every couple of days I've run out again since I can never be arsed to try and get any more myself

Nope, I have noticed no drop in your commitment

The problem will come, when I get Spore...drop TQ for it, or finish TQ irst, then start Spore...?

Option three - play both in rotation, and drop some sleep, and add some work sick days! Da-da!