Comments on: Field Studies 1: Sporegasm

By: muffin

muffin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:07:10 +0000

Ok when the first talk from Will Wright came out along with him showing the audience the game…it looked amazing!!
However when i bought the game they had changed soo many things…n its worse now!
In the creature stage there is no real hierachy of the food chain…i found myself just annihalating everything in my path! which got a bit boring after a while….

The amoeba stage is too short..and there are not enough parts to unlock!
The space stage gets very annoying after a while as i spent ages flying to a distant area…then sudenly a virus breaks out on my home planet and i have to fly all the way back just to kill 6 creatures!!!! WTF
it just became a bit boring after a while and unexciting…

However it was a good attempt at a fun, interesting, and chalenging game by Will Wright. You have to start somewhere??

By: Field Studies 3: My Pretties, by Pentadact, who is secretly Tom Francis

Field Studies 3: My Pretties, by Pentadact, who is secretly Tom Francis — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:43:37 +0000

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By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:04:59 +0000

Basically PNG format images have fields for ‘metadata’ – extra info that doesn’t affect the image. Spore’s creatures are tiny enough to have their entire DNA coded into that space, and the game then re-generates them from that.

Unlike other games, it doesn’t need to store every polygon or animation frame of a model to know exactly how it should look: all that stuff is ingeniously generated by algorithmic procedures from the basic facts about the creature.

So yeah, it’s pretty incredible. It’s a beautiful piece of software.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:54:48 +0000

From the Sporepedia:
“How do you see one of these Creatures in your Spore Creature Creator? Right Click on the thumbnail image of the creature. Save the image to your desktop. Drag the saved image from your desktop into the Spore Creature Creator. Voila! The Creature is in your game.”
WHA?!?! How in the world is that possible? I find the idea of simply dropping a png file into the game to create a moving 3d character far more fantastic than any of the characters. Must find out what happens if I drop a non-spore image into it.
Now that the demo is out, the database is updating at a speed about 1000 creatures a minute.

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:57 +0000

I’ve just realised that last comment should’ve been in the above entry.

By: WeakLemonDrink

WeakLemonDrink — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44:01 +0000

I APOLOGISE FOR NOTHING.

By: CloakRaider

CloakRaider — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:20:18 +0000

I actually saw a friend’s creature on that, after many minutes of a gaping mouth I PM’d him through steam saying “LOLOLL I SAW YOUR CREATURE”

Christ, I’ve never been so excited over seeing something that looks like a victim of Chernobyl.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:48:36 +0000

Did you hear which mag, Rob?

If anyone grabs it and makes something cool, do link it here. Ogling other people’s stuff is almost exactly as fun as making your own.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:17:13 +0000

Ah. In other news, water has been found to run downhill. Shrug.

By: The_B

The_B — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:50:20 +0000

I don’t know any magazines released on a Saturday. Unless it was some form of subscriber copy? I only ask as I was under the impression that it wasn’t on any magazine coverdisk due before Tuesday…

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:21:47 +0000

It’s not a leak, it was on a coverdisc.

http://files.filefront.com/SCCTrialSetupexe/;10630039;/fileinfo.html

By: The_B

The_B — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:41:09 +0000

The Creature Creator demo thingy.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:40:33 +0000

‘It’ being what?

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:53:06 +0000

It appears it’s been leaked onto the torrent network. Oh dear.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:18:37 +0000

Interestingly the number of creatures has more than doubled since I posted this, so I guess the editor was rolled out to a lot of new people today. It’s release into the wild on Tuesday, at which point: may God have mercy on us all.

Anon: I suggested ‘Freudian Nightmare’ for Tim’s living phallus, but I think it was deleted from Sporepedia. I suspect cocks and copyright infringement will be viewed dimly.

Lack: Did you see Pan’s Labyrinth? That thing was loosely based on the dinner table monster from that film. A rather cutesy version, but there’s something about disjointed faces I find fascinating. Also, yes, I like the word ‘nightmare’.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:23:27 +0000

I think the Earth is my favourite spore in that screenshot.
What’s the name of the Great Penis Race?
Also, I think undercroc is pretty cool. It’s got a unhappy-red-face rating though :(

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:20:54 +0000

Seems they changed the URLs since I pasted that link. This works at the moment.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:27:21 +0000

Haha, I immediately typed in ‘Nightmare’, just to see what came up and there was one of yours’ Pentadact.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:07:42 +0000

That link doesn’t seem to take me to a specific creature page, just the general list.

James likes most basic html. Not sure about images, and probably not tables, but most of the rest of the essentials.

Grill: roger, wilco. The Horncrested Bristlefrog has some words. Haven’t quite settled on whether I want origin stories, naturalist observations or honest gamer talk. So far I’ve preferred the latter in other people’s creations.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:48:52 +0000

You can search for/link to creatures directly Tom. Yours: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500000014362

Just how much HTML can we use here, again?

By: Grill

Grill — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:57:16 +0000

What with the APB character creator and this, I may never get into playing a game properly again.

Also: Put some backstory into your creations Tom, for us poor folks who haven’t got access to the creator – Palmface is disturbing but without explanation.

By: Calaros

Calaros — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:33:07 +0000

Thank you. Thank you so very, very much.

I think I’ve just seen the rest of my life laid out before me O.O