Best Spore Creatures

Well, Spore is finally out!

Traffic has been crazy with the release of Spore… and it shows.  EA isn’t the only one having server problems!  Our server has buckled under the traffic from the last few days.  Our apologies for the sporadic downtime, we’re working on having it fixed!

We’ve also seen more non-Spore-related images being uploaded lately… it’s a bit annoying, but I hope we manage to remove them fairly quickly.  I don’t really want to make images need to be approved before they can be shown on the site.  We’ll see how it goes.

I also desperately want to make some improvements, like adding user avatars, and making it a lot easier to comment on creatures - hopefully I’ll manage to get some time to do this soon.

That’s it for now, off to the store to pick up my copy of Spore!

This is a bit old, but I’m a big fan of the TED conferences, and I think it’s definitely worth watching if you haven’t seen it yet. Will Wright talks about Spore, about his motivations for building it, and what he hopes it will become. It’s great to watch because it’s not a sales pitch, you get a good feel for Will Wright’s passion and love for his work:

The news is all over the net - Spore has officially gone gold. This means it’s done - the CDs (well, DVDs, probably) are being written - and there’s no reason for the release date (Sept. 7) to be pushed back.

There are announcements all over the place.

Apparently the system requirements have been released:

Processor 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
RAM XP: 512 MB / Vista: 768 MB
Graphics card 128 MB with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
Hard disk drive space At least 6 GB

When using a PC with an on-board (aka built-in or “shared”) graphics chipset, the specs bump up to:

Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above.
2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent.
768 MB RAM
[edit] Mac OS X
Note: Spore will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).

OS Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
Processor Intel Core Duo Processor
RAM 1024 MB
Graphics card ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
Hard disk drive space At least 4.7GB for installation, plus additional space for creations.

When using a Mac with an on-board (aka built-in or “shared”) graphics chipset, the specs bump up to:

Intel Integrated Chipset GMA X3100
Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent

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