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By Deza Some people already know about this, but for those who don’t… How to make a cannon, well sort of. First your going to want to make a gate in GA Then insert a cannon ball Make it so the cannon ball if right in the centrer of the gate Then insert another gate Put this gate CLOSE to the other gate, so t...

By Deza 1.) Load a “Blue Gate” 2.) Find a Building, click on “EDIT” in the lower-right hand corner 3.) When it opens the Editor, find a Creature 4.) Click on the Creature, then click “EDIT” again 5.) Click the Green Tick in the Lower-Right corner. 6.) You should Now have a Completely Still Creature in your Ad...

By Deza Hi there people, its Deza here to tell you how to get the most out of your spore game graphics wise. This guide is intended for people who have medium to good computers, and a little bit of time to get everything working. I’ll start of by saying that you need to make sure your graphics [...] Related po...

By Ball Lightning Here you can find the full list of all Spore Hero reviews! So keep checking back for the latest and feel free to link around to others! Spore Hero Reviews GameInformer EA’s new Wii spin-off of the franchise, Spore Hero, has a decidedly scaled-back scope. Instead of melding several differen...

By Ball Lightning Now this is a shock. EA have given the rights to 20th Century Fox to create a movie based on Spore. Not much information has come out yet, but keep watching here for more info. What we do know is that plans have been set to have Chris Wedge to direct it (the guy behind [...] Related posts:Spore: Multipl...

By Ball Lightning Here is a short editorial by Connor Jack about the Aquatic Stage for Spore. I decided to do a bit of research on the underwater stage of Spore, something that was cut from the final release of Spore. Originally, Spore was demonstrated with an underwater level before the species involved onto...

By Ball Lightning A new feature in an upcoming version of Mozilla’s Firefox called WebGL allows the potential to display 3D graphics in your browser. Ars Technica have shown a preview using Spore’s Collada exporter. In a follow-up post featured at the Mozilla Hacks website, he shows how WebGL can be used to...

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By Ball Lightning Some of the artwork created by spore enthusiasts is amazing. Maxis decided to harness this power and created a spore screenshot challenge, so head over to the official forums and vote for your finalists today! Finalists Announced! Click the thumbnails for quick links to the posts, or scr...

By Ball Lightning Visit the offiical forums for more details and if you have any questions. Challenge Details In the first ever Creature Creator 2D Challenge, recreate one of your favorite Spore creatures in 2D for a chance to win a feature! Visit Spore2D.com! Example Creations: What will the challenge win...

By Ball Lightning Sorry about the very late news about the newest spore release, but with the server issues while hosting and moving houses it has been a very busy time. But we should be back on track now, and hopefully news will now flow back to the way it used to. Thank you very much for being [...] Related posts:Spo...

IGN reviews the latest Spore iPhone game, Spore Creatures. Last year’s Spore: Origins was one of the iPhone’s best games. Based on early chapter of the bestselling PC game, you guided a cell through the primordial soup in a Herculean effort to survive the lowest rung of the evolutionary la...

Well the Spore Patch 1.5/1.5.1 has finally been released for the mac! If you can’t remember what was in the last patch, here are the details below: Fixed issues: Object orientation near water or lava can appear incorrectly when Playing or Testing an Adventure. Fixes a crash in the Building Cre...

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Spore for iPhone was a massive success and it appears that Maxis will continue this trend towards iPhone games with Spore Creatures coming to iPhone before June next year according to an exclusive by Pocket Gamer. Will we be seeing each stage released slowly on the iPhone? During our prese...

A lone Spore Hero Arena screenshot found by SporeBR. Related posts:Spore Hero Arena DS – HQ boxart SporeBR found a much better version of the Spore Hero...Spore Hero / Hero Arena appear – September release date Spore Hero (Wii) and its DS counterpart Spore Hero Arena...Spore Hero Arena and Spore...

A new Spore Hero Arena video! Related posts:2 new Spore Hero – Spore Hero Arena videos Check out our Spore Hero page for more info! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjUsSNAtLzE&feature=player_embedded]...Spore Hero Arena – Enter the Arena Trailer The official Spore Her...

Welcome to the first Sporedum Editorial! This is a new section where I will put up my thoughts about events and issues in the world of Spore, I hope you enjoy and commenting is most appreciated! We are looking for people who wish to write about events in the spore community so if you are [...] Rela...

By ballightning Source: Ocean Quigley’s Website Here’s how to use Spore to export a 3D Collada file of y Source: Ocean Quigley’s Website Here’s how to use Spore to export a 3D Collada file of y

By ballightning With the newest Spore Patch, it is now possible to export your spore creatures to Maya, Blender, 3dM With the newest Spore Patch, it is now possible to export your spore creatures to Maya, Blender, 3dM

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By judhudson You seen the video, now create your own Captain!  Maxis is encouraging users to create their own Cap You seen the video, now create your own Captain!  Maxis is encouraging users to create their own Cap

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By ballightning Maxis has a new patch for Spore users, fresh off the presses.  But before you go on and download it, Maxis has a new patch for Spore users, fresh off the presses.  But before you go on and download it,

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By ballightning Will Wright chats with Industry Games about many topics – the Stupid Fun Club, whether we’ll see Spo Will Wright chats with Industry Games about many topics – the Stupid Fun Club, whether we’ll see Spo

By ballightning It is been 3 months since the stunning release of BetterSpore 1.5. Since the 14th of March, there has been over 10,000 downloads from our official server, and up to 20,000 from across the internet, making BetterSpore the most popular mod for Spore. It has been featured in magazines, and we even had Maxis talking [...]

By ballightning Lucy Bradshaw talks to Gamasutra about many aspects in the world of Spore and the Sims. She goes into details about the community and the balance Maxis tried to create in Spore.   Spore And Balance Finding the right balance was a challenge in Spore, she says, particularly in the area of how much impact and meaning to give people’s [...]

By ballightning TNT Productions (Terry) was another of the privilaged Spore users who got to try out Galactic Adventures at the recent Adventure Camp, here is his review plus some Q&A’s.   Spore Galactic Adventures Creators Camp Review  Firstly I would like to personally thank MaxisCactus and the entire staff at Maxis for giving myself and my other fellow creators/friends (Ceece, Fotosynthesis, [...]

By ballightning Amazon have added the cover image for the Prima Guide to Galactic Adventures and some information was uploaded to.       Product Description * Expanded coverage of the space game from Spore. Giving players the detailed info they’ll need to get them ready for the Galactic Adventures that await. * Complete walkthrough for all Maxis-created adventures. Every puzzle solved, every [...]

By ballightning Yet another pre-E3 update on Spore Hero, this time from IGN. We recently got to play a new level in the game: the Bioluminescent Forest. The name is a little misleading, though, as the environment is located in underground caves and there was very little plant life to be found. The Forest is where players will have [...]

By ballightning IGN has also had a pre-E3 look at Spore Hero Arena, and have revealed that unlike Spore Creatures (DS), it will feature a full 3D creature editor. A big difference between this and last year’s game is that the creator is now presented in 3D, as opposed to the flat paper look of Spore Creatures. You’ll [...]

By ballightning Gamespot have had an updated look at Spore Hero:   At another Electronic Arts event, this time down in Los Angeles, we got another opportunity to check out Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii. This is an entirely new game built specifically for the Wii, in which you’ll play as a hero that is destined to save [...]

By ballightning Maxis have published the Adventure camp page on the official Spore website. They have also published some more screenshots of the camp. You can check out our Adventure Camp page which features all our exclusives with the attendees. There are also now 10 new panoramas, with one from each creator.       [...]

By ballightning The Spore.com/WTF site has finally launched, and as mentioned earlier, which revolves around the creators of Robot Chicken creating missions for Galactic Adventures.   Here are some videos that Maxis have released:                                

By ballightning Maxis has finally revealed what the “WTF” is in relation to Spore Galactic Adventures.  Earlier today Maxis released a press release detailing what this is all about. It turns out to be pretty boring considering all the hype, with the creators of Robot Chicken creating missions which will be avaliable for download once GA is released. This [...]

By ballightning Here is some more of what Parkaboy had to say about Spore Galactic Adventures from the Adventure Camp. LINK Someone asked if one of us had played the Maxis made adventures. I played a few… I tried the “Mothership Down”, wich is a huge battlefield, and couldn’t survive more than a few seconds.  There was one that was [...]

By ballightning Designed exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii, Spore Hero’s controls have been made even easier. The original game’s integral procedure animations were brought over from PC version in total and were mapped to the Wii controller enabling gamers the ability to crack eggs, pull off combat moves moves, and collect items. In many situations, like creating, you’ll [...]

By ballightning GoNintendo has posted a few details about Spore Hero. Built from scratch by EA Montreal The dev team aimed for a ‘Nintendo-style’ look Gameplay focuses: exploration/evolution/action Procedural animation brought over from PC version Almost the same amount of editor options as PC version Editor features overhauled to make them easier to use on Wii (bigger buttons, less dragging) First thing you’ll do is break [...]   [read the full post]

By ballightning Both the structure of the adventures, and the combat itself, seem to have a great deal in common with the average massively multiplayer game. The spaceport hub where I select adventures is populated with a host of non-player creatures — all of them bearing familiar-looking exclamation marks. Once I actually begin the adventure, I discover [...]

By ballightning It seems that Maxis has heard the call of the hard core gamers. Gamespot reveals in in their first look preview that Spore Hero is aimed at the less casual gamers. The opening scene of the game was shown at the event and vividly described how your character ends up on a new planet. Blazing through [...]

By ballightning Visit our Spore Hero page for more. Source: SimPrograms

By ballightning The official press release for Spore Hero/Spore Hero Arena has been released over at EA.com. The SporeTM franchise continues to evolve as MaxisTM, an EA studio, today revealed details about Spore Hero andSpore Hero Arena - two games built from the ground up exclusively for the WiiTM and Nintendo DSTM platforms. Building on the franchise’s core tenets of creativity, exploration and adventure, [...]

By ballightning Seems Maxis is hiring more people for a new simulation game. If you remembered last month, Maxis was hiring someone for a fast paced MMO. Now the question is, are these related, are we finally getting a Sims/Spore MMO?   LEAD SIMULATION ENGINEER Location: California – Emeryville Role: Software Engineer Specialty: Gameplay Engineer   Maxis is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the development of [...]   [read the full post]

By ballightning Spore Hero has now appeared on Amazon with a estimated release date for the end of September. It is being sold at £29.99 with the RRP at £39.99. Last month we revealed that Spore Hero is set to be released on the 22nd of September, and now the date posted at Amazon confirms that September is [...]

By ballightning Earlier today, we posted a video that Maxis distributed which showed off something to do with Robot Chicken (a high rating TV show). Now Reuters has come out and revealed that the company is making a new TV show called Titan Maximum, which from the video we saw, could be using Spore animation instead of [...]

By ballightning The 5 winners of the Captain Postcard Challenge have been annouced. Congratulations to ashkelon, Karl-EL, Cecil_090, Himmelslaub and bcrane who won the challange, whos creatures are now outfitted with gear from Galactic Adventures. You can view them in the ‘Meet the Captains‘ page over at spore.com.  

By ballightning We want your best adventure ideas!  Get your best adventure ideas on paper and enter our Spore Galactic Adventures Storyboard Contest! The first place winner will receive an NVIDIA© GeForceGTX™, a 3D printed Spore creature, and their storyboard will be used to create an adventure by Maxis developers! The second place winner will recieve 3D printed Spore sculpture. May [...]

By ballightning EA/Maxis released 4 new images from Spore Galactic Adventures of the TX-5000 superweapon:         Source: SimPrograms

By ballightning Ocean Quiqley’s blog has been updated reflecting his work with the galaxy in Spore.  He shares his trials and errors as well as a few images from the process: I had a problem when the galaxy was seen edgewise; all of the stars would overlap and make the center of the galaxy burn out to white. I [...]

By ballightning Here are all the latest Spore Apps taken from the Spore API gallery page.   Spore Skeletons   View the top popular creature skeletons in augmened reality!   By Aaron Meyers       Achievement List   See which achievements you still need to earn.   By NecroBones             SporeView   Navigate through a Sporepedia like creation viewer.   By DJEPYON             Quality Spore   Get all the stats on the creations you like.   By SniperMonkey             Mac Screensaver   See a screensaver shuffle through creations [...]   [read the full post]

By ballightning It has taken some time, but we know have our first glimpese about the other Spore games (Spore Hero for Wii, Spore Hero Arena for DS and Spore: Creature Keeper for the PC).  Looks like information is starting to come out, as PocketGamer was able to catch a glimpse of Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS! The [...]

By ballightning Spore Hero (Wii) and its DS counterpart Spore Hero Arena (DS) have both appeared on Gamespot with  a release date of the 22nd of September. However, knowing what happened with Galactic Adventures, it is most likely that this is not the final release date. IGN have both set for release on 31st of December, but [...]

By ballightning Falsely assuming that his work on Spore and his other previous franchises is done, we asked Wright if he ever would return to them. He responded, “I don’t think it was widely reported, but alongside this whole [Stupid Fun Club] thing, I also entered into a consulting agreement with EA. I’m spending a certain amount of time [...]

By ballightning One of my favorite creators, Andeavor, has once again created another fantastic creation! This one was in honer of the new series of the Sims (find all the latest news on the sims at SimPrograms). Enjoy! We are not going to give Andeavor a creator’s spotlight, only because Andeavor  is so popular already!   [...]

By ballightning Chris Hecker (Spore Developer) has posted on his personal blog about his notes and early documentations from Spore.  Here is his most recent post called liner notes of Spore, in which he shows the construction of Spore creatures - texturing, meshing and the behaviors.  If you’re a Spore fan, it’s a must read - especially the Behavior Tree Docs! [...]

By ballightning Spore Galactic Adventures Lead designer, Stone Librande will  be holding lectures at 3 universities: Georgia Institute of Technology (already occured on April 10), University of Southern California (April 16) and Carnegie Mellon University (May 1). He will be guiding students through the Adventure Creator while inspiring them how to turn game concepts into reality.  This tool will [...]

By ballightning EA released an updated version of the Spore Galactic Adventures fact sheet: Product Description Take Spore creature from zero to Galactic Hero! The Spore franchise continues to evolve with the launch of Spore Galactic Adventures – a highly-customizable expansion pack for Spore. Spore Galactic Adventures adds a tremendous amount of variety and fun to the Space game, [...]

By ballightning Yet another preview from EA’s showing on Wednesday evening, this one is from G4 TV. I played a few missions and was impressed with the variety of possibilities. The first mission put me on a planet at war with a group of invading aliens. Allied with the indigenous species, my goal was to infiltrate and destroy [...]

By ballightning IGN also had a preview on wednesday, along with G4 TV and Gamespot. They had pretty much the same impressions. The first mission, created by Maxis for this demo, is called Mothership Down. It’s designed to be played by your Space Captain, which is basically a heroic creature that you build up, sort of like Spore’s [...]

By ballightning Like the original release, the essence of planetary creation is something that EA Maxis is ensuring will be as intuitive and accessible for a wide an audience as possible.  Sliders for a range of different attributes, from sea level, global temperature, and even the colour of the land itself, can be changed.  Dropping the temperature on a planet covered by water will turn it to ice, whilst doing the opposite will turn the surface into an inhospitable and hellish vision of molten lava, fire, and brimstone; even the height and density of mountains and hills can be changed.  That level of climatic extremes shows only a basic level of what players will be able to achieve when Galactic Adventures finally drops.  Choosing the level of vegetation...   [read the full post]