Will Wright’s burgeoning masterpiece
Spore may have been in development for what feels like an eternity, but we finally got to mess with the toys he had
teased us with all those years ago, today. The
Spore Creature Creator is available to download as a trial or buy with a full set of creature features (the price is refundable against the full game, due in September… around my birthday…
*cough*). You take an amorphous blob, fiddle with the spine, add a mouth (or two), a few legs (or a dozen) and virtually anything else you can think of, then watch as your
Noodley Appendage sculpts a brand new creature. I tried to run it on
Ubuntu with
Wine, but there were some graphical glitches. Oh well, on to Trina’s Vista laptop, at least the Creature Creator gives the awesome guys at Wine
3 months to get everything running smooth!Of course, as a dino-geek (you know you’re one, when your daily reading includes Darren Naish’s
Tetrapod Zoology) most of my creations have been of a decidedly ancient variety.
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