Prudence and Madness

There’s a new patch available for download for Spore Creature Creator at the Spore Official site.  You can get the new patch here.  If you’re a Mac user, forget it; just check back after a week for the patch for Mac.

When you get to the site, be careful in clicking the links, though.  The patch for the Creature Creator trial version is different from the full version.

Patch fixes include (lifted from the official site):

• Improved thumbnail resolutions for saved creatures.
• Added five new animations, recorded when creating animated GIFs in Test Drive Mode.
• Fixed a randomly occurring system hang.
• Fixed a crash associated with EADM.
• Creatures no longer disappear from the Sporepedia when the save flow is interrupted.
• Corrected the Audio buzzing found on systems with nForce2 integrated audio.
• Updated Spanish and Polish readme files.
• Updated the EULA found in the installer.
• Fixed disparity between server and game complexity limits.
• Integrated the newest save creature PNG.
  NOTE: This allows creatures PNGs made with Spore to be drag-and-dropped into the Spore Creature Creator. Spore Creature Creator players who do not patch will not be able to drag-and-drop PNGs created in patched versions of the Spore Creature Creator or Spore.
• Improves overall stability.

Ten more days to go before the Spore game comes out! 

Another game in the horizon for EA Maxis, Spore, a massive online multi-genre game, is set to be launched on September 5 in Europe and on September 7 in North America and Asia-Pacific.

Some call it a god game; others simply cannot categorize it in a single game genre.  In the game, the player is allowed to design his own creature, starting from a microorganism and then nurturing it until it developed into a complex, social animal enabled to have intelligent mastery of the objects surrounding it and interacting with alien species across the hundreds of galaxies.  It is perhaps similar to the Sims 2 but is online and wider in scope.  Gameplay possibilities are enormous as one could concentrate on developing a single creature or a whole new civilization.  And while it is a single player game, one’s creatures and civilizations are automatically shared with other players, and thus the endless source of different gameplay.

Here are screenshots of the game, from the official site of Spore:

Cell Stage

Creature stage
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