Archive for September, 2008

How can we improve Best Spore Creatures?

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

On the last blog post, Xenoiaos wrote: 

Now the big question is this site going to be limited to just the creature’s (And would we include the cell stage as apart of this “creature” name) Or are there going to be separate arenas for vehicles/buildings/spaceships?

Yes, I’m planning to have categories for the other editors!

I’m looking for some feedback on what the new categories should be.

At one extreme, we could have a category for every editor:

  • early creature
  • tribal outfit
  • civilized outfit
  • space outfit
  • building
  • land vehicle
  • water vehicle
  • air vehicle
  • spaceship
At the other extreme, we could have just three categories:
  • creature (including any outfits)
  • building (any kind)
  • vehicle (any kind, including spaceships)
What do you all think?
And other than the new categories - what other improvements would you like to see next?  (already on my list are user avatars and making it easier to comment on creatures).

Spore is out, server problems, and other miscellania

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

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!