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Last post Author Topic: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!  (Read 61215 times)

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The Spore creature creator (demo?) is now available for people to download and play with:

It's a very powerful and user-friendly tool for creating fun looking 3d creatures, originally intended to be used with an upcoming game called spore, but increasingly looking like it will be a standalone toy.


What i thought would be really fun is to have a contest to see who can make the best Spore Creature version of our mascot Cody.  You can see more pictures of Cody on Nudone (Nick Pearson)'s website (http://www.wtfcody.com).

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Winner will be chosen on July 1st or soon after and I hope Nudone will agree to judge the winner.  Prize will be a dc mug with the real Cody and your Cody creature side by side.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2008, 11:25 AM by mouser »

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 10:06 AM »
Please post your entries to the contest on this thread with a picture.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 10:28 AM »
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The beak proves troublesome as well as lack of control over color placement.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 10:51 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
That was fast, justice!
I also tried to do cody spore-version, but it didn't run on my computer :'(

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 06:08 PM »
mouser: apparently the creature editor is being sold as a standalone toy, for people who can't be arsed playing the game but like playing around.

Pretty well done, justice, by the way :)
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2008, 06:13 PM »
i guess the download is not the full version; full version of the creature creator is $10.

so i'll reimburse the first 3 cody entrants (as well as the eventual winner) for the price of it.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2008, 07:01 PM »
Here's my version... not as good as I would have liked, but I was on a time crunch.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2008, 07:12 PM »
Spore Creature Creator installs cmdlineext.dll, a Sony SECUROM Copy Protection Component.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2008, 07:16 PM »
Spore Creature Creator installs cmdlineext.dll, a Sony SECUROM Copy Protection Component.
Christ, why do they have to try and obfuscate the names? It's not like it confuses the pirates and the crackers anyway. I really want to purchase spore and support the developers, but seeing that it's EA branded and with the horror stories about the new phone-home and limited-number-of-activations crap... I almost feel like pirating it, just to set an example >_<
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2008, 07:38 PM »
Hey, be glad they relaxed the restrictions, the first ones were absolutely obnoxious.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2008, 10:49 PM »
Mizraim, your creature is cute  :)
justice, i can definitely see the relation to cody, but i'm not sure i'd want to be alone with that creature for fear of my life.  :huh:

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2008, 06:17 AM »
If you post your creatures with a pic like Mizraim you can actually use the pic to open the creature in the editor, Just by dragging it into the window while having the build screen open
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2008, 06:45 AM »
Hey, be glad they relaxed the restrictions, the first ones were absolutely obnoxious.
Still isn't good enough, though. They should give up their crap and release the games through STEAM, that's probably the least obnoxious scheme available.
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2008, 09:23 AM »
Mizraim, your creature is cute  :)
Thanks mouser!

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2008, 11:22 AM »
Okay here's mine. Doing the tail fins is hard :(

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Edit: Here's a picture with Cody Babies and a video (avi format) is attached (zipped in a RAR). Cody doesn't seem to be very happy when the babies show up.

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« Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 01:59 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2008, 11:23 AM »
WOW!!! Go Deozaan! That's a really good one!

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2008, 11:28 AM »
damn deo that's good!

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2008, 11:29 AM »
i'll offer up a couple more $10 spore creature reimbursements if anyone wants to keep trying.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2008, 01:53 PM »



Deo that is amazing!!! I kept trying to turn up the speakers to hear what Cody song sounds like..  ;D

So great!  Who knew Cody was such a good dancer!

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2008, 01:59 PM »
Haha, only saw the video now - great stuff. But pretty scary sounds Cody is making! :)
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2008, 02:01 PM »
Haha, only saw the video now - great stuff. But pretty scary sounds Cody is making! :)

Probably because his "beak" is really more like alligator jaws.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2008, 02:24 PM »
i couldnt hear any sounds

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2008, 02:27 PM »
i couldnt hear any sounds
codec problem? Worked fine here, playing in MediaPlayerClassic, with no codecs (iirc) except for xvid and possibly AC3.
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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2008, 06:37 PM »
Gothic says please put the video on youtube and i agree.

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Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2008, 07:16 PM »
I tried but I guess I don't have a YouTube account, and I was in a hurry. I've got some time now, I'll try again.