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Creature editor available in June

Written on April 17, 2008 by Kyle

In a recent interview, Patrick Buechner (VP of marketing, Maxis) revealed that Spore’s creature editor should be available sometime in June.

So can you confirm the Spore Creature Creator will be in the SimCity Box when it ships in June?

A trial version of the Spore Creature creator will be available for free through a variety of sources including as a download from Spore.com and in The SimCity Box. There will also be a version of the Creature Creator available at retail. The free Creature Creator has about 25-percent of the creature making parts from Spore. The retail version will have 100-percent. It’s up to the players to choose which version they want, but they’ll all be available at approximately the same time.

It’s been almost two years since I first talked about EA releasing an early creature editor. Crazy! If you do remember, I made a promise then:

When EA releases said content editor, Total Spore will have the very first contest for your creations. I can’t give any specifics since I don’t know how much of the editor they’ll release (duh!), but once it comes out — keep your eyes peeled on Total Spore.

I fully plan to keep to that promise and have been working on ways to make this happen in some kind of coordinated fashion. Only a few more months to wait!

1. StrathavenTownDFC

   April 18th, 2008

   this is awesome news!
   will it be available in the UK?
   can’t wait to start creating!

2. Jdog2360

   April 18th, 2008

   holy crap nice news!!!
   I was away for 5 days in the Bahamas and just got onto Total Spore, omg this is sooo sweet!

3. BlackMamba

   April 18th, 2008

   OMG WOOHOO!!!

   One step closer to the release of Spore. I know what I’m doing with my summer…

4. jon

   April 19th, 2008

   uber awsome spore is one step closer

5. ninja_on_crack

   April 19th, 2008

   If anyone is wondering, the retail version is only $10.

6. Rectangle10

   April 19th, 2008

   OMG!
   I CANT WAIT EVER SICNE NOVEMBER LAST YEAR I HAVE BEEN WAITING AND NOW THE EDITOR IS FINALLY COMING OUT!
   But when he said trial version he did mean you only have 1 or 2 hours to play???

7. toast_recon

   April 22nd, 2008

   er, no, you obviously not, as you don’t even know who the creator of spore IS.(Will Wright)

   Now, please stop spamming the comment section.

   Also, this is the greatest news I have seen in a while. I am SO buying the full version. :P

8. toast_recon

   April 22nd, 2008

   Oh, and no spore Creators ever come here.
   Your message isn’t getting to them.

9. Isimbot

   April 22nd, 2008

   Wow… João dude stop…. I think I speak for all of TS when I say that spamming is not welcome here… especially in the news part… ok?

10. herkron

    April 23rd, 2008

    Great news. All sporians rejoice!

11. Spooker

    April 23rd, 2008

    I didn’t read all the comments so someone may have said this but I believe it said the “Creature Editor meaning only the editor and nothing else and I don’t really know how they would put a time limit on something like that. About that contest though I think you should make two categories one for the people who buy the one with 100% and the other for the people who only have 25% you know to make it fair, that’s just my oppinion though. I can’t wait though it will be so much fun having that creature editor.
    LONG LIVE TOTAL SPORE!!!!!!!!!

    P.S. I almost cried when I read that interview.

12. StrathavenTownDFC

    April 26th, 2008

    Does anybody know if the demo will include the test your creature bit?
    Or is it just the editor and the painter bit?

13. Princess Gemini

    April 27th, 2008

    Thats awesome! I first heard about Spore about six months ago, probably a little more than that, so I haven’t had as long of a wait as everybody, but I am still very exited to hear that the creature editor demo will be released in June, only like two months away! I can’t wait! I’m going to go creature making crazy, it’ll keep me occupied until the whole game comes out in September.

14. Merriweather

    April 30th, 2008

    Amazon just posted a deal: You get $5 off Spore if you purchase the Creature Creator from them (and obviously you need to buy Spore from them too. http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-15864-Creature-Creator/dp/B0017KWJ56/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1209599098&sr=8-2

15. Diceman

    May 5th, 2008

    DANG IT!My computer just broke down a couple weeks ago :(

16. zakorath

    May 27th, 2008

    great news, but i can’t find the retail version for pre-order in the UK anywhere, i’ve searched all around the net…

    no-where, i get it in dollars but it won’t ship to UK any help would be great thanks…

17. zakorath

    May 27th, 2008

    it’s june 17th in good ol’ england…

    but i don’t know about elsewhere…

18. kingjim

    June 4th, 2008

    Here are the system requirements. they destroy my CPU, I hope spore is closer to Sims 2 but i doubt it since these are just the creature creator.
    OS - Windows XP/Vista (FAT 16/32 file systems not supported for Digital Download)

    Processor – 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent

    Memory – XP: 512 MB RAM / Vista: 768 MB RAM

    Hard Drive – At least 300 MB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for created creatures. (600 MB for digital download)

    Video Card – A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0*
    For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game
    requires at least:
    * Intel Integrated Chipset GMA 950
    * Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent

    Supported Video Cards

    • ATI Radeon™ series
      9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3650, 3850

    • NVIDIA GeForce series
      FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

    • Intel® Extreme Graphics
      GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

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