So there are ~3/4 MILLION Spore creatures out there so far. That's 250 thousand PER DAY, or an average of 2.892 creatures EVERY SECOND for the past 72 hours.

Madness? THIS IS SPORE!

If people keep making Spore critters at the current rate (as of this writing, ~200 creatures per minute), before a week is out there will be more Spore species than there are real life species (1.1 million). And the game itself isn't even out yet.

You see, I've figured out why they released this thing early. They realized that if they wanted a fully-populated universe with enough randomness to its creatures, they'd have to have a backlog of creatures to draw from… hence, the CC.

It's done amazingly well. And produced some outrageous defiances of reality, (AKA the Steam Engine and Car that were featured recently) some really, really good ones, (incl. a bunch that look like real animals) and a host of immature-teenager productions which would make wonderful targets for Death Star practice.

In other news, I have two projects on front burner right now: platform-puzzle combine-a-thon Elemental (due August), and epic action adventure/trading sim/exploration game/RPG Cloud Ocean (due WHEN IT'S DONE).

The CO menu:

http://64digits.com/users/omicron1/COMenu.png

I've made a building generator and a city generator, which will be put to good use ingame. This makes 5 different viewpoints/area types total: shipboard (airborne flight game), in-building (hand-to-hand combat), in-city (exploration), shipboard combat (hand to hand again), and countryside (exploration).

I'm currently working on all things interface-related, as well as transfer scripts.