Is anyone else getting the retail version of this on Tuesday?

Also I might actually post on Kotaku when this title comes out if/when those sad sacks are proven so very wrong.

Of course I am.

Some people don't want it since it comes free in the actual game, but after playing with the demo version I couldn't possibly wait until September. It's that awesome. Even with the 25% content in the demo, people have already made over 10,000 creatures. Imagine how many you can make with 100% content.

I can't wait to make Spore Spheals, canines, dragons and ferrets. I dare someone to make Silverbolt (Beast Wars).

Is anyone else able to import creatures? I'm getting an error saying the creature has unloadable parts

I tried importing a creature today and followed the instructions but it doesn't seem to be working. I saved the image to my desktop and then I clicked and dragged it onto the Spore icon. The game loads but the imported creature doesn't show up.

By the way, I checked the official website some more and came across a way cool feature. You can add your friends to a buddy list and their creations will take higher priority when the game needs to DL creatures/buildings/etc into your world. Sweet!

Well there's no official FAQ for that as far as I know, but the best I could do is starting a new creature and dragging the image over. Regular PNG files didn't come up with anything, so at least the other creatures gave the error.

EDIT: They simply are ones made with the full version, that's why they aren't working.

Are you supposed to load the game and THEN drag the image over? I don't see a way of starting it in a window or whatever. I didn't get any error messages when I dragged image over to the Spore icon. The creature just doesn't appear in the game.

Yeah, you have to open the game first, then alt-tab out and drag the png onto Spore's taskbar button and hold it until Spore regains focus.

You can run it in windowed but admittedly the options menu is not very obvious:

http://www.saxypunch.com/miscimg/whereisit.png

Wow, thanks for the help! Man, importing creatures is pretty troublesome. Why can't you just drop the PNGs in a folder or something?

You can! Drop them in the My Documents\My Spore Creations\Creatures folder with all your own creations, and they'll appear in the Sporepedia next time you open Spore.

This only works if the png's filename is consistent with the creature's name, for some reason. Matt's Quaztoid.png worked perfectly but Krel's floppy1sb4.png doesn't work unless you remove the 1sb4.

You may be taken up on that challenge. :)

As far as getting the full thing, I'm usually against nickel and diming from EA, but this is from the Maxis department (not really EA since they had their own thing going on before being bought), so I dunno why i'm still for getting the creator for $10. :p

I guess it just feel that it's worth the time, considering my whole family is actually interested in playing this game, and from a technical standpoint, it's very creative.

for some reason my first creation didn't get saved even though it said "Creations 1" in the load menu. I did take one picture of it before though.


So I made a quick character afterwards but for some reason even if it isn't complex I kinda liked it ^^

YouTube Video

And one more thing, it seems like someone is already testing the boundaries of mature content for the game
Gametrailers.com - Spore XXX Character - NEW! by GhostRipper

I am forced to admit that this is kinda funny, although there's no way that's not going to get deleted on sight by the Spore mods. Ditto for the penismen I saw elsewhere.

Also, I was not encouraging you to build transformers. I doubt it would look right anyway, without any metal body parts. Trying to make something that moves around on wheels might be an interesting exercise, though.

I'm truly blown away by the fact that the game can actually generate a dance for your critter. The creator is worth $10 all by itself, hands down.

I made something very simple for the start - A few simple details.. but nothing out of the ordinary.

I call him Buckie =)



Oh, and another one... called Muffin - awww...so cute =((



And say "Hello" to the biggest one =O!

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/7...2a5fsmlix9.jpg

Aw man, slayer25k, your creatures are pretty darn cute, especially the last one. I'd like to see that in my game please. Send the PNG :3 I'll be sure to add you to my buddy list when the games come out.

Shenlon, check out my last Journal entry for a video of a nasty monster.

I made King Ghidorah today, and his poses are so slick! He is the only critter I made that topped the complexity scale.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b8...e/Ghidorah.jpg

haha talk about a one eyed monster.
Hopefully we'll see more creative ones other than seeing immature 11 year old children make ass monsters and call them assy or butt mongler

Thought I'd add this little gem I just found on youtube:

YouTube Video

some people are just fucking weird.

Thank you! :oo

Take a look here :tpg:

http://www.spore.com/view/profile/slayer25k

:3

By the way, I got the Spore CC today!!! If you guys haven't gotten it already, get it at Wal-Mart. I got mine for $8.77, less than regular price :3

I'm showcasing the very first critter I created with the full editor. It's a werewolf of course. How do you like it?

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b8...e/werewolf.jpg

Please, please, PLEASE broaden your interests. Please. I beg of you. Go a week without talking about werewolves, or ferrets. Please. Prove me wrong about you.

The last time I talked about werewolves was on Jan 5th, 2008, and I can't even remember when was the last time I talked about ferrets. That message in Welcome Welcome doesn't count as I pretty much never even go to that section, so your theory's wrong :P

I was going to make a shark critter (i love sharks), but the shape looked more werewolf-ish so that's what the end result was.

No animals. Please. One week. Give it a shot. Think of it like trying to kick a coke habit. Seriously. You're starting to make me think you might be an otherkin or something. Or a PETA supporter. Something crazy like that.

Hang on, you have to pay for the full Spore Creator thing? I thought it was being called a 'demo' because it was limited to just the creature creator, I didn't realise it was a cut down creature creator. EA will try to milk money out of any situation won't they.

the demo was before, but they recently relased a retail version of the creator, for the full one you have to pay... the demo is still floating around though, with not as many features of course.

You don't know the half of it, actually downloading it from EA directly gets you a bunch of antipiracy software bundled in and as a consequence it doesn't fucking work half the time.

Mine actually was retail and it gave me a WSOCK32.DLL error.

Oh, and on the pirated demo, too.