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!

Just finished adding something that probably should’ve been there since day one - but you can finally see who made a Spore creature, and what other Spore creatures they’ve made!

You should notice links to the user pages when looking at any Spore creature. You can get your own link by clicking on “My Creatures” after you log in.

There are more improvements coming!

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:

Just a quickie, but I noticed this creature by YadNiMonde in yesterday’s Spore creatures, and I had to post it:

Original logo:

We absolutely love the sheer, insane creativity of all the Spore creatures that have been uploaded so far. We’re going to highlight some of our favorites, and we’d love to hear what you think (and to see more!) If your creature isn’t here, don’t panic - we might be saving it for a different category, or we might have simply missed it.

So, without further ado - the Top 7 Spore birds I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley:

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No updates in a while, busy busy busy…

We got discovered by the xSpore forums, which has brought an influx of ridiculously high quality creatures. Seriously, they make my creatures look pitiful.

We also got a mention on Everyday Gamers. And thanks to Ephemeron for the kind words!

Over 600 creatures and counting… we’re quickly approaching 1000!

We got a couple more mentions on blogs - thanks to Brian Green and Sean Percival, who are true connoisseurs of fine Spore creature sites!

Another small milestone - we now have over 300 crazy Spore creatures. That’s still only a drop in the ocean of 1.8 million creatures on Sporepedia, so add more creatures!

And finally, I got word that Best Spore Creature has been making the rounds at the Spore offices. Too cool.

If you search for “spore creature” or “spore creatures” on Google. We’re now on page 1 :).

This past week we’ve reached out to other Spore sites, in an attempt to get the word out about Best Spore Creatures. The response has been great!

You might’ve noticed some new buttons on the home page, which link to a handpicked list of some of the best Spore sites and blogs. Spore Daily, Spores Illustrated, SporeTube and spore.startheaven.com have been kind enough to return the favor.

What’s more, some of them took the time to write a few words about us:

Spore Daily

Spores Illustrated

We also got a brief mention on spore-world.de.

Thanks all!

This is amazing.. never had we anticipated such interest in a creature voting site, haha…so. Here’s a few bizzare creations: