I heard from the people at Spore today and check it out!
You can make your own creatures, give them abilities and it looks a helluva lot better than most of the Web 3.0 apps like Second Life that already offer this functionality! I am not really a gamer - I just don't have the genes to push those little buttons, but I htink this is truly amazing.
As soon as you create your creature it is ready to start moving around! Hippity Hop is just silly but funny too and you can make offspring! I love the sounds it makes as you build it and I am positive this will be huge with women (pink market) because it's so customizable.
Wouldn't it be kewl if animators could just make creatures like that in minutes and start animating!
Press Release
If you haven't yet heard of SPORE, the forthcoming game from Will Wright, the mind who brought us SimCity and The Sims, and if you haven't yet heard of SPORE's creature creation component, let me tell you just a bit about it here, and how it applies to you and the animation world: The SPORE Creature Creator gives anyone the chance to build their own unique animated creatures, bring them to life and play with them, as well as share them with friends and the world. Launching on June 17, the powerful yet easy-to-use creation tool also gives anyone, whether a PC or Mac user, an early introduction to the most anticipated game of 2008, SPORE. A free demo version of the creature creator will be available online from www.spore.com. The full retail version will be on sale for $9.99 in North America and 9.99 in most European territories.
With the SPORE Creature Creatorâ€'s simple drag-and-drop interface, you can assemble your creature from a wide range of more than 200 parts. Make a creature with shark fins on its back or eight arms; it''s totally up to you. Pull and stretch your creatures' parts exactly as you choose, then paint it with distinctive colors and patterns. Once you are happy with what you have produced, it's time to bring it to life and see how it moves. SPORE's unprecedented procedural animation technology intuits how your creature would move and emote even without the game animators ever having seen your completely unique creature!
If it doesn't sound possible, or if I'm being unclear, you can check out this 12-minute video that just went up last week that takes you through the creature creation process: http://pc.ign.com/articles/875/875963p1.html
With the SPORE Creature Creatorâ€'s simple drag-and-drop interface, you can assemble your creature from a wide range of more than 200 parts. Make a creature with shark fins on its back or eight arms; it''s totally up to you. Pull and stretch your creatures' parts exactly as you choose, then paint it with distinctive colors and patterns. Once you are happy with what you have produced, it's time to bring it to life and see how it moves. SPORE's unprecedented procedural animation technology intuits how your creature would move and emote even without the game animators ever having seen your completely unique creature!
If it doesn't sound possible, or if I'm being unclear, you can check out this 12-minute video that just went up last week that takes you through the creature creation process: http://pc.ign.com/articles/875/875963p1.html
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