Spore creations

As a precursor to the full game, the Spore Creature Creator was released a few days ago, and it’s really quite awesome.

The creature editor gives you essentially a blob of plasticine with a backbone that you can mould into any shape you like, adding all sorts of limbs, body features and whatnot. And with anything you create, the program figures out how to animate it procedurally. Pretty neat. Here’s two creatures I created:

Unsurprisingly, there’s a rampant proliferation of Spore cock-monsters and goatse-men. I would expect no less from my fellow ‘neters. So all I did was contribute to the trend with a suitably lewd design of my own and EA promptly suspends my Spore account! LoL, I guess I had that coming.

On an unrelated, web-design topic, I came across this humourous little video titled How to fix the Web with Greasemonkey in 3 minutes. Check it out.