# I'm Worried About Spore **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 3, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240 "2008-07-03T22:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/21 "2008-07-06T00:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I don’t say that to be insulting or mean. Really, if Spore is what we think it’s going to be, we’re going to need cannon fodder. [/quote] Huh. Didn’t think you had! 🙂 > [@](#): > > I haven’t played with the creature creator yet. It’s pretty fun! > [@](#): > > Spore, why won’t you come out yet??? Why must you make me wait?!?!?! I feel your pain. I’ve never anticipated the release a video game with such … barely constrained patience. I forget when I first heard about Spore, but it was a long time ago, long enough to experience the agony of several release delays. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/22 "2008-07-06T05:52:57Z")
Well, I can’t make Creature Creator work\*. Which is probably for the best, since I’d be making all the old-school (A)D&D monsters one right after the other. I saw where someone made Pierson’s Puppeteers and someone else made Overlords (from Arthur C. Clarke’s _Childhood’s End_). \*I’m pretty sure it’s a video card issue, since my computer is about 7 years old now and I still have an NVidia 400MX in there. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/23 "2008-07-06T06:47:31Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Well, I can’t make Creature Creator work\*. Which is probably for the best, since I’d be making all the old-school (A)D&D monsters one right after the other. I saw where someone made Pierson’s Puppeteers and someone else made Overlords (from Arthur C. Clarke’s _Childhood’s End_). [/QUOTE] There are about [three hundred](http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-PUPPETEER%3Apg-24) versions of the Puppeteers at present, with varying degrees of success. I made a creature based on the Puppeteer myself, but didn’t call it that. There are over 1200 beholders! Egad! Edit: Some of the puppeteers I note are not of the Niven variety. ---
**Author:** ![Roonwit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Roonwit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roonwit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/24 "2008-07-06T12:28:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, I can’t make Creature Creator work\*. I had problems with it crashing to the desktop at first, but [upgrading this dll file](http://easpore.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easpore.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=19866&p_created=1213824223&p_sid=WCWvV38j&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NjAsNjAmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz01NjYmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0xLjU2NiZwX3BhZ2U9Mg**&p_li=&p_topview=1) took care of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/25 "2008-07-06T16:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] There are about [three hundred](http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-PUPPETEER%3Apg-24) versions of the Puppeteers at present, with varying degrees of success. [/QUOTE] It’s funny- the very first creature I made was a Puppeteer. The very second creature I made was a Beholder. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/26 "2008-07-06T17:06:06Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] There are about [three hundred](http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-PUPPETEER%3Apg-24) versions of the Puppeteers at present, with varying degrees of success. [/QUOTE] Ooh…some of those look like they scanned and pasted the [Puppeteer page from Barlow’s Guide](http://www.larryniven.org/images/ringworldart/puppeteer.jpg), they’re so close. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/27 "2008-07-06T17:06:47Z")
My fear regarding game population, more than useless mutation sins against Og or Sporn, is the depth of database being created by the free download, compared to the $10 full kit. The free version comes with, what, four head choices? And all of them are carnivores. Since getting the full builder, I may have made one carnivore. Most of my creations are omnivores, with maybe two or three herbivores (mostly because I, like Kevin Smith, believe the platypus to be proof of God’s sense of humor, and at least want to partially populate the Sporepedia with a few duckbilled screwballs.) ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/28 "2008-07-06T18:44:59Z")
Yeah I’ve been concentrating on herbivores and omnivores myself. When the game comes out, those carnivores need something to eat! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/29 "2008-07-07T02:04:09Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] Yeah I’ve been concentrating on herbivores and omnivores myself. [/QUOTE] Same here. I must have made six creatures before doing my first carnivore, the Stinkbug. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240/30 "2008-07-10T08:14:19Z")
I found another reason to [worry](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27/). -FrL- [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-worried-about-spore/455240.md?page=1)