Spore Creature Creator Available

I had the pleasure of seeing Will Wright do a live demo of Spore back in March when I was at the NASA Virtual Worlds Conference in San Jose. I’ve been waiting for this one for years now. If you are not familiar with Spore, it’s sort of an MMO, it’s sort of a God game, it’s sort of a strategy game, and it’s also sort of a social network. What it really will be is a new obsession of people around the Internet that want to explore a wide open universe and share their experiences and creations with others online.

For good coverage of the game you can check the Official Spore Site or the Spore area of Gamespot. This program will blaze the way for social educational games in the future (hopefully, if it is successful and relatively bug free at release).

Getting to see the demo with Will Wright just upped my excitement all the more for Spore. Here’s a great behind the scenes video interview from Gamespot. This explains some of the motivation of the design team who worked on Spore.

If you want to play around with creating some creatures that you can load into Spore and share with others, the free trial of the Creature Creator was made available for download today. This free trial has 25% of the options that the boxed version of the Creature Creator will have (list $9.99 available in two days). This game should set new standards and models for future immersive environments.