Spore spawns 100 million creations

By Polybren, GameSpotPosted May 1, 2009 11:53 am PT

It's time for the denizens of Electronic Arts' Spore to raise whatever passes for their appendages high and do a little happy dance, as yesterday marked the creation of the 100 millionth user-generated species for the PC game. While the official Sporepedia that had been keeping a running tally of...

It's time for the denizens of Electronic Arts' Spore to raise whatever passes for their appendages high and do a little happy dance, as yesterday marked the creation of the 100 millionth user-generated species for the PC game. While the official Sporepedia that had been keeping a running tally of the species was down as of press time, a developer on the game's official forums confirmed that the milestone has been reached.

Helping spur the Spore community on to the number was a contest EA ran, wherein the creator of the 100 millionth species would receive an assortment of schwag, including a copy of Spore (just in case the creation was made using the downloadable Spore creature creator instead of the full version of the game). The other prizes included an Nvidia graphics card and a copy of the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion when it becomes available next month.

While Spore is a multistage strategy game that culminates in interplanetary conquest, the powerful-yet-accessible creature creator tool has been singled out for celebration. For an idea of the creature creator's potential, check out a selection of Spore Illustrated's favorite abominations.

42 Comments

  • gk_of_berea

    Posted May 4, 2009 9:36 am PT

    lol, I love the 360 controller creature

  • sircyrus

    Posted May 4, 2009 1:40 am PT

    100 million species created. And 99,989,000 of those species have been abandoned by the player who created it, bored of the game after 3 days.

  • xNJN

    Posted May 3, 2009 7:35 pm PT

    @nurse_tsunami= But you must realize that that too is game play.

  • dr_jashugan

    Posted May 3, 2009 2:35 pm PT

    Wow, are the adult versions also included?

  • nurse_tsunami

    Posted May 3, 2009 1:34 pm PT

    I liked making the creatures more than the actual gameplay.

  • Xaviersx

    Posted May 3, 2009 10:47 am PT

    Oh Spore, not quite the evolution sim I was waiting for, but good on reaching a milestone. Guess I have to be a scientist/code master to get the try and/or die sim evolution game. Time to go outside and irradiate some tadpoles in my real world attempts, . . . can't wait til they visit the EA inhabitants or just reach the space stage.

  • mr111111

    Posted May 3, 2009 10:36 am PT

    cool game, it coulda been so much more with a little more depth

  • Francision69

    Posted May 3, 2009 7:38 am PT

    That's a great milestone!

  • chappy_man

    Posted May 2, 2009 11:13 pm PT

    the contest for it probably helped :p even i tried to get on that. Site crashed hard during final stretch though.

  • jrabbit99

    Posted May 2, 2009 8:27 pm PT

    wow, didn't take long to reach that milestone!

  • wheezy_shoe

    Posted May 2, 2009 7:23 pm PT

    How about stopping the waste of money by making new body parts to slap onto your starting amorphous blob, and instead spend the money to make the majority of the content (space stage) more interesting and have new storylines. It gets really boring expanding your "empire," buying out or conquering allies, and just trying to get to the center of the galaxy. Veni Vidi Abii. I came, I saw, I left. Even something like being able to play as the Grox would be a nice change from the monotony.

  • Compilation

    Posted May 2, 2009 4:20 pm PT

    A heavily spiced up game with numerous epic flaws and somewhat hasty (nascant) processes from EA, haha, get it? Yeah well it doesn't make sense, I liked it, smashed the story to space then realised, from the moment I clicked the little exit button in-client, that my life was scarred with this bog flush. /Sigh There's always 'Spore: Galactic Adventures?'

  • Death_Masta187

    Posted May 2, 2009 3:12 pm PT

    and about 10 of those creatures will be from paying customers... the other 999,990 where from people who used bit torrent to get the game...

  • OGLocc123

    Posted May 2, 2009 2:12 pm PT

    Would have been a great game if the advancement stages weren't so short.

  • lucky711t

    Posted May 2, 2009 2:03 pm PT

    Spore isnt the BEST game out htere, but it did bring new advancements to the gaming industry! But Spore will never be as good and successful as The Sims! The Sims 3 will be the next groundbreaking game of the year and will sell double what The Sims 2 sold!! Only 31 days left!!!!

  • digga1990

    Posted May 2, 2009 1:21 pm PT

    By the time i read this my far away planets were attacked 100 million times.

  • eduardvictor

    Posted May 2, 2009 10:22 am PT

    Yeah, 100 million creatures, and out of those, 99 million are variations of creatures that look like a penis...

    Give me a damn break, Spore is the biggest waste of money EVER, i should have bought GTA 4 instead...

    Spore is brainless OFFLINE GRIND...

  • jdiego82

    Posted May 2, 2009 8:44 am PT

    lol

    nice 360 controller

  • nintendodude73

    Posted May 2, 2009 6:56 am PT

    Cool, my Sonic Boom creature is on page 2!

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