{"id":248,"date":"2008-09-09T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-09-09T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:20:09","slug":"videogames-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/videogames\/videogames-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogames | Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long, bloody time in the making, Spore<\/strong> finally hit store shelves (of course it had to be 3 days before I leave the country…) and I couldn’t resist picking it up to finally get my hands on it, despite how crappy my PC might run the game. Still, I’ve put a bit of time into the game and have come away utterly charmed! <\/p>\n

While the game is a shadow of what was promised years ago (more or less and ‘Everything’-simulator), what is<\/em> there shines. Spore<\/strong>‘s success lives or dies on its creature creator and, though I’ve only hit the second stage of evolution for my creature (called a Kruppe<\/strong>!), I’m already astounded by the level of customization available and how it all works<\/em>! The flexibility of the engine becomes rather mind boggling when one takes a look at the Sporepedia<\/a> and peruses the creatures created by all the other players in the world, a number over 10 million strong.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the creatures made by my brother and I:<\/p>\n

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If you want to follow along with my creations (well, mostly my brother’s while I’m gone), you can head on over to my profile<\/a> in the Sporepedia<\/strong> and see everything that’s come out of my twisted mind!<\/p>\n

If you’ve got Spore<\/strong>, be sure to leave my your name so I can add you in game and have your creatures populate my galaxy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long, bloody time in the making, Spore finally hit store shelves (of course it had to be 3 days before I leave the country…) and I couldn’t resist picking it up to finally get my hands on it, despite how crappy my PC might run the game. Still, I’ve put a bit of time… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n