At this point, the transition for me is to become an anthropologist. We knew players were making a lot of things with the Creature Creator (a separate slice of Spore software released in June).

Peter Cohen whips up critters using the just-released Spore Creature Creator from Electronic Arts and finds it to be creativity-sparking fun that the whole family can enjoy.

There's been an explosion of creature making this week, and you probably know why. With Spore's release over the weekend, gamers from around the world have been busy making creatures and vehicles ...

Would Spore take a scientific approach to evolution? Would it celebrate the tenets of intelligent design? Knowing Wright’s history, it’s no surprise that the answer is yes on both counts.

The scariest monster movie creature designs include the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth and the Thing in The Thing.

For its first baby step, the game's Spore Creature Creator goes live at www.spore.com. The program, for Windows and Macintosh PCs, lets players design creatures using the game's editing tools ...

Makeup Artist David Anderson was inspired by "The Wizard of Oz" in creating the creature in "Your Monster." ...

The Sporepedia is an extraordinarily vast online destination where people worldwide can search for and share Spore creations, comment on other player's designs, check out celebrity creature ...

"Essential skills for a creature concept designer in a modern game encompass a mix of artistic, technical, and collaborative abilities," he tells me. Below I've listed the core skills and traits ...

You can create your own Spore creature from the ground up—figuring what sort of torso, arms, legs, eyes, mouth and other apparatuses the creature might need, even adding some design flair ...

While "Spore" ships with a hefty set of creature, building and vehicle parts for its creation tools, the chief hinted that Electronic Arts might charge game players for extra design bits--say a ...

The Creature Creator suggests that Spore isn't going to be about sitting around waiting to mutate, it will be about getting stuck in and frantically experimenting.