It’ll be interesting to see how players use this new creative application.”
“The clean art style and intuitive point-and-drag functionality makes it easy for creators of all ages to get in on the fun. “ Spore Creature Creator 2-D offers players a brand new way to express their creativity and share their creatures as it can be played by anyone with internet access,” said Senior Producer Caryl Shaw. The Creature Creator 2-D offers more than 250 unique body parts like limbs, eyes, heads and accessories like antlers and wings, and once creatures are created, they can be played with in the Spore Creature Trainer game, embedded into Facebook pages or shared with others via email.
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Here's hoping it and other publishers see mobile as an increasingly viable way to do this too.Electronic Arts has unleashed the Spore Creature Creator 2-D, a free Flash-based online application that lets gamers create, modify and share a whole new generation of dimensionally-challenged Spore creatures.Ĭoming in advance of the release of Spore Hero for the Wii and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS, the Spore Creature Creator 2-D lets players build their own beasts or import and modify them from the massive Sporepedia, which features over 120 million pieces of user-generated content. Several years ago, EA's mobile boss at the time was floating the idea of downloading a FIFA player to your phone to train up using a mini-game, before re-importing them into the console version.Ĭonnectivity has been one stumbling block something that's gradually being solved with the wider proliferation of flat-rate data tariffs and handsets designed for, well, data connectivity.Īnd while Spore Creature Creator itself looks too technically and graphically complex to squeeze into a mobile app, many of the examples I listed earlier (cars, sport kits, scouting) could easily work.ĮA is one publisher clearly waking up to the general idea of an application that comes out before a main game. It seems such a logical thing to do, yet nobody's done it. Who knows, a clever bit of 'Try More Games' marketing within such an application might even get them to, well, try some mobile games too. What's more, this would finally give the hardcore players who sneer at mobile a reason to do something game-related on their phones. Meanwhile, us gamers get something to do in the long weeks leading up to a hot new game on another platform. The publisher gets a nifty way to build / capitalise on anticipation for the console game, or even generate some extra revenues.
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(Memo to Sega: I would happily pay a fiver for a full nerdtastic Football Manager app that lets me spend the month leading up to the PC release combing through lower-league players and free agents to build a shortlist.
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You'd do this in a mobile app, then upload the results to the publisher's server, ready to download to your console or PC when the main game comes out. You could be building monsters, creating an RPG party, tuning a car, scouting footballers, or designing a tennis kit even more retina-shredding than the lime-green effort Rafa Nadal wore at Queens last week. It's a cool and interesting thing to do.īut it got me thinking, why aren't mobile phones being used more for this kind of thing? Pre-release type applications that prepare you for a console or PC game's release, I mean. What's that? It's an app that EA is releasing in advance of Spore itself, which will allow people to design all manner of beasties ready to use in the main game later this year.
No, the game itself hasn't slipped again, but the Spore Creature Creator application, which was due to launch today, is now coming out tomorrow. There was bad news this morning for gamers eagerly awaiting the release of EA's super-ambitious Spore.
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