{"id":1028,"date":"2008-06-21T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T22:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2008-06-21T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T22:48:22","slug":"spore-creature-creator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Spore Creature Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/spore\/spore logo.png\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Electronic Arts released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/trial\">Spore Creature Creator<\/a> on Tuesday. The Creature Creator serves as a sort of demo for the full <a href=\"www.spore.com\">Spore<\/a> game (which is currently marked for a September release), and also as a stand-alone product from Spore, because it is actually really fun. I downloaded the Trial Edition (yes, there is a full version and a trial version of what is basically a glorified Spore demo) on Wednesday, and with the help of a friend, I have created 7 creatures so far. Here are a few examples:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/spore\/froed.png\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/spore\/fatty.png\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zibland.com\/stuff\/spore\/bubblegum.png\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can see all the creatures I&#8217;ve made so far, as well as all the creatures I will make in the future, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/sporepedia#qry=usr-zib_redlektab\">my page<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/sporepedia\">Sporepedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the trial edition is nice, but it only has 25% of the parts that the full version has, and since the full one is only $9.95, I figured I&#8217;d download it. But wait, what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eastore.ea.com\/store\/ea\/en_US\/DisplayProductDetailsPage\/ThemeID.1252400&#038;productID=96890600\">this<\/a>? It seems that EA only has the direct download option for PC users. How odd, considering that EA is offering the game for both Mac and PC platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I can buy the boxed version of the Creature Creator <a href=\"http:\/\/eastore.ea.com\/DRHM\/servlet\/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&#038;SiteID=ea&#038;Locale=en_US&#038;ThemeID=1252400&#038;Env=BASE&#038;productID=95024000\">here<\/a>, for both Mac and PC, but then I&#8217;d have to pay (and wait) for shipping, something I don&#8217;t want to have to do. That <em>plus<\/em> my disc drive is broken, so physical media is useless to me. EA, why can&#8217;t I have a direct download for the Mac version? This is just stupid. It&#8217;s not like Macs can&#8217;t download things that PCs can&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>After about 10 minutes of googling, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametreeonline.com\/\">Game Tree Online<\/a>, a site devoted to direct downloads of Mac games. They have Spore imagery all over their site, but the Creature Creator download for Mac is listed as &#8216;coming soon&#8217;, with a pre-order available. I don&#8217;t really understand why, because if I remember correctly, EA had said that it was going to release Spore for PC and Mac at the same time, and I would tend to assume that that meant the Creautre Creator as well, in a format that&#8217;s actually useful. I&#8217;ll get it when it comes out, but I&#8217;m disappointed, EA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts released the Spore Creature Creator on Tuesday. The Creature Creator serves as a sort of demo for the full Spore game (which is currently marked for a September release), and also as a stand-alone product from Spore, because it is actually really fun. I downloaded the Trial Edition (yes, there is a full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,48],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}