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Meet Verdelizaro.  He’s a dark green carnivore made by…well, me…in Electronic Art’s newest out of this world platform, Spore.  I created this being with the Spore Creature Creator: Trial Edition.  The UI was fairly intuitive, even though it didn’t have all the features that the full version has.  Now in my opinion, I think EA got this right.  For some virtual worlds, when you create an avatar, you feel like you are simply creating a representation of yourself, whether it’s a human-like avatar or not, you’re creating YOU, or as Morpheus would say “the mental representation of your digital self.”  In Spore, it felt more like I was creating a new inhabitant of a new world, but that did NOT represent me in that world- almost like creating a virtual pet.

Now here’s where the novelty comes in- from the Creature Creator you can create a video of your monsters, and upload them to YouTube- nice way to share what you done with the rest of the world. Here’s is Verdelizaro in all his glory, with one of his youngsters:

All in all, it’s worth the download if you have the time to play around.