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Spore Creature Creator now available

by Mat Lu Jun 17th 2008 at 11:00AM

EA has made the Spore Creature Creator trial available for download on both Mac and PC. A while back EA promised simultaneous release for Mac and PC, and they seem to be on track with the Creature Creator which is available for purchase at $9.95.

The Spore Creature Creator is a preview and demo for the full Spore game, which is scheduled for release on September 7. As you might expect from the name the Creature Creator allows you to build and customize creatures which you'll later be able to use in gameplay once the full game is released. I've been playing with the trial this morning and it does look very promising.

The Spore Creature Creator is Leopard and Intel Mac only. It requires at least an ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. It will apparently not run on computers with the GMA 950 integrated graphics chipset on OS X (though, it will on Windows). The trial version can be downloaded directly from the Spore trial site.

Thanks, Shiraz!

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vitop

I have the full Mac version on CD, but it won't run on the Mac mini. I see there is a way to make the trial version work on the mac mini, but is there a way to make the cd version work on a mac mini?

July 03 2008 at 10:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nopix

Does anyone have this "SPORE" folder? Can anyone PLEASE send it to me or upload it somewhere (e.g. Torrent) Thank you so much, contact: mjartan.tomas@gmail.com

June 18 2008 at 4:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thon

Doesn't work on macbook as far as I can tell. Tried a few things, no dice

June 18 2008 at 11:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hiryu

Here's how to get the full version of the Spore Creature Creator to work under Mac OSX:

1 - Install the FREE version of the SCC.
2 - Get an installation (from a friend) of the full SCC.
3 - On the Mac, right click on the 'Spore Creature Creator Trail Edition' and select 'Show package content'
4 - Copy the 'SPORE' directory from the PC to Resourcestransgamingc_driveProgram FilesEA Games and rename it to 'Spore'
5 - Navigate to ~/Library/Preferences/SPORE Creature Creator Preferences/ and edit the system.reg file
6 - Add the following lines (anywhere in the file should do):

[SoftwareElectronic ArtsElectronic ArtsSpore(TM) Creature Creatorergc] 1213787222
@="SERIALGOESHERE"

And replace SERIALGOESHERE with the activation key from the CD/EA Store WITHOUT the '-' signs.

Now you should be able to run the full version of Spore Creature Creator on the Mac.

June 18 2008 at 8:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Alexandre Strube

I have the same twirling spiral... so what?

June 18 2008 at 4:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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pablo

It's probably a rendering issue associated with whatever type of integrated video is used. I have the issue with my Mac mini. It'll be great if someone finds a solution, but I'm not expecting much.

June 18 2008 at 4:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

okay..now im up to a spiral galaxy and when ever i click it takes me to a website :0(

June 18 2008 at 1:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

Hmm im trying to edit the .plist while its mounted but it doesnt seem to let me edit it. what program should i open it in?

June 18 2008 at 1:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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pablo

Copy the .app to somewhere else first, then edit it and run the copied .app.

June 18 2008 at 1:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TheWiicast

Hey guys hope this helps. I kept getting "could not verify install" once i changed the data in the .plst file. I switched to using TextWrangler and it worked fine. The problem was that i was trying to edit it in the default window. Hope this helps! Oh, I'm running a mac mini intel dual core.

June 17 2008 at 9:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jay

hey TheWiicast could u send me detailed instructions of what you did b/c I'm having the same problem you had and I don't know how to fix it.

July 04 2008 at 2:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay

TheWiicast can you please send me detailed instructions of what you did to fix the problem b/c I have the same problem you did and I don't know how to fix it. my e-mail is hulse1016@aim.com

July 04 2008 at 2:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
viewofeverlast

Am I the only one who has had my creatures disappear after relaunching the program? I've made about 7 creatures, only one shows up in my Sporepedia after relaunching the software...

June 17 2008 at 8:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Brian Arnold

I made one creature on my first launch, and he's not visible. All of my others are. Very odd.

June 21 2008 at 11:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Clancy

If you edit the xml file in the installer you can bypass the 950 restriction. I've got it running fine on my Intel C2D Mac Mini.

June 17 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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