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Spore Creature Creator

By laelaps on June 18, 2008.

If Opabiniahad left descendants, what would they have looked like? That was the question on my mind as I fiddled around with the new Spore Creature-Creator last Friday night, tweaking my virtual creation this way and that in a bit of speculative biology. I admit that the end result has more to do with what I think looks cool than anything scientific, but the demo for the upcoming "Sim Life" game Spore sure is a lot of fun to play with.

I'll take some snapshots and video to share if I can (along with my thoughts on the demo), but if you really want to know you don't have to wait for me. The demo has been made publicly available and you can check it out here.

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I had no idea a demo was available, thanks for the tip! I am not a gamer, but I have been waiting for Spore for YEARS, I'm almost afraid to get my hopes up that they'll finally stick to a release date!