Spore Revolution

Spore to Release a Demo

Yes!  There will be a demo of Spore released to the public before the actual game comes out.  When though, we do not know yet... In an interview with IGN's Dan Adams on July 10th, we've had a hint of a demo.  Here's is the quote!

IGN: Are you planning on putting out some kind of demo or beta program?

Patrick Buechner: We are going to release the creature editor portion of Spore in advance of the core game release. Probably several weeks before. We know there are a lot of people anticipating Spore and we appreciate their patience. We really want to give them the game that they're waiting for.

Several weeks before is still a long ways off, but at least we'll get to play it before its official release!  Be sure to sign up to the official Spore newsletter for updates about when the beta will be out! We'll get the chance to create the first creatures to pollinate the Spore worlds.. WooHoo!

Spore release date pushed some more

I just read a great Will Wright interview from GameSpot, entitled EA not Spore-ing until late '07.   The article was written by Tor Thorsen, and the interview entitled Will Wright talks Spore, Leipzig, next-gen was written by Andrew Park.  Both were published on August 9th. I pulled three important facts out of this interview.

Firstly, the release date has furthur been pushed to at least July 2007.  They are in the home-stretch because all levels are playable, but they still have a lot of fine tuning to do.

Secondly, my estimate of perhaps 6GB of hard drive space might not be so far off.  My hard drive space guestimate was countered by some because they say that creatures will be taking up as little as 3kb of space.  In this article, Will Wright says that that is the compressed file size, and that every creature will be at least 3mb. 3mb upon 3mb adds up quickly!

Last but not least, there will be a playable version of Spore at the Lepzig Game Conference in Germany!  We can look forward to great new videos then. :)

Petition for Spore Creature Editor

Some people have gotten together to create a petition for EA to release a creature editor to the public.  I went ahead and signed, it can't hurt!  However, just know that they may  already intend to release the creature editor, and they won't be releasing it too buggy. 

But just in case it was never the intent, go ahead and sign the petition!!