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Maxis Contest: Arthropod Adventure Team Challenge

Posted by ballightning on July 16, 2009

Yet another challange from MaxisCactus, and this time, you need to team up with 2 other people and create an adventure about insects. Enter over at the sporum.

Challenge Details

Organize into a teams of 3 players. With your team, create an adventure that uses at least 3 insects, arachnids, or crustaceans!

Your Submission Post should include the following information:
Adventure Title:
Team Name:
Lead Artist: Must create 5 original creations used in adventure. Creations tagged with team name.
Lead Collector: Must create Sporecast with at least 10 creations used in adventure. Sporecast tagged mcarthropodchallenge.
Lead Adventure Designer: Must publish adventure. Adventure tagged mcarthropod challenge
Adventure Link: Example: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Sporecast Link: Example: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ssc-XXXXXXXXXXXX

Arthropod References
Not sure what to make? Get inspired by arthropods from the following references:

• Wikipedia on arthropods
• SPYDR’s -=ARTHROPODS=- Sporecast
• Daikaze’s Insects and Arachnids Sporecast
• PyroBeast958’s Ultimate Insects of the Galaxy Sporecast

What will the winning team get?
A chance to be featured on Spore.com!

• The Adventure Designer will have the adventure featured.
• The Lead Artist will have one of their creations featured.
• The Lead Collector will have their Sporecast featured.

We’ll post our favorite submissions here, then YOU get to vote for which one is your top pick! The winner may be featured if it meets our criteria for featured creations.

Adventure, creation and Sporecast Requirements:
• must not contain any text with any links or references to other sites in the submission’s tags, name, or description
• must not contain content based on copyrighted material

Submissions that do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for the poll

Rules:
• Your team can submit as many entries as you like. Each entry should have its own post including the required info.
• Your adventure must be published by the Lead Adventure Designer
• Your Sporecast must be created by the Lead Collector (minimum 10 creations)
• Your Adventure must include at least 5 original creations by the Lead Artist
• All submissions must be in by 11:00am PDT August 20th 2009

Optional
• Post screenshots of the adventure and creations you’ve created here!

Challenge FAQ
Q: Can we use the adventureLook cheats?
A: Yes

Q: Are mechanical Athropods accepted? Can I make the required arthropods in any editor?
Yes, yes.

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Contest Winners: More Submarines Please Challange

Posted by ballightning on July 15, 2009

MaxisCactus has annouced the winners from the Submarine contest for her Aquarium app.

You voted and…
The winner is Mavor for The Penguin Sub!

Congratulations and keep an eye on Spore.com for your feature soon!

Congratulations to all the finalists in this challenge!

Your submarines are now in circulation in the Spore Aquarium! Vote for the winner by next Tuesday 7/14/09.

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SporeDay: Ask Maxis

Posted by ballightning on July 15, 2009

For SporeDay, MaxisCactus has published another interview with the devs for the community to ask questions, this time with Kate Compton (MaxisKate) and John Cimino. If you have questions you want to ask, head over to the sporums and post on the forums.

This is your chance to interview two of the artists from Maxis!

Kate Compton is an associate technical artist at Maxis. Some of her contributions to the project include creating the effects in Galactic Adventures, sculpting the core Spore and Galactic Adventures planets (including the cube), and designing the original Spoffit.

She also teamed up with Robot Chicken to help create the Bloody Sundae adventure, and made the Dungeons of Spore April Fool’s game.

Some of her other Adventures include How A Bill Becomes a Law and Protein Synthesis. Her notable creations include the Obama and other US Election 08 Candidates, and the Alex Trebek UFO.

John Cimino is a lead animator at Maxis. He’s was responsible for designing and creating all of the animation for the advanced emotional behaviors in Galactic Adventures. He designed the creature parts for Spore and Creepy and Cute, many of the rigblocks in the Building creator, and many of the Spore objects, such as huts, tools, and found objects.

He also designed the achievement icons and the creator play mode animations.

Some of his adventures include the original Clark and Stanley adventures, Welcome to Dancetopia,Robots vs Dragons, and he contributed on The Meaningless Turtle as well as several Robot Chicken adventures.

About the Interview

Ask them about their art, their jobs, or their adventures just by posting your questions here on the thread.

Submit your questions by 7/20/09 and we’ll choose the finalist questions for you to vote on. The top voted questions will be answered by Kate and John.

Please keep in mind that finalist questions will be chosen based on relevance to John and Kate’s contributions at Maxis.
We will only be choosing questions for the finalists that John and Kate can answer.

Previous interview: Ask Maxis with Chris Hecker

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And i’m back…

Posted by ballightning on July 15, 2009

Well i’ve been going around Papua New Guinea for the last 2 weeks and i got back to the airport at 1am on Monday morning. The trip was definitely the best experience i have had and i do plan to go back to PNG in the future (mainly to complete the whole Kokoda track).

Thanks very much to Judson (from SporePrograms) for keeping up with the spore news while i was away, he did a fantastic job and our sites will continue to support each other into the future.

I am very busy with everything because i have so much to catch up on, and therefore i will be mainly focusing on improving Sporedum and its news service. This will also include a new section called the Sporedum Editorial which will look at issues revolving around the world of Spore, whether it is DRM, gameplay, sporn or whatever else turns up.

As i have less time, BetterSpore and modding will not be high in my list of things to do, and as BetterSpore works relatively well with Galactic Advenutures there is no rush to bring out a newer version. I will first install GA (i haven’t done so yet), and then i will play around with it before i even start modding. So do not expect any mods from me in the near future. If you are impatient, mod it yourself.

Once again, thank you for being loyal readers to Sporedum, as without you, this site would not exist.

Regards

Ball Lightning

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MaxisCactus presents the Quick Guide to Adventure Filters

Posted by judhudson on July 11, 2009

MaxisCactus has posted another helpful thread over at the Sporum regarding the Adventure Filter cheats that was a new feature included with Spore Galactic Adventures.  She guides you how to give your adventure that special look!

You may have already played around with the styleFilter cheats in Spore, but you’ll need to use the adventureLook cheat to change the look of your Galactic Adventure.

Your filter changes will be saved and published with the adventure, so others playing it can see it just as you intended it to look!

Filter previews:

Easy steps to applying an Adventure filter:
1. Open your adventure in edit mode
2. Open the cheat console by pressing CTRL SHFT C
3. Type in adventureLook followed by a filtername (listed below). I.E. for sepia, type in “adventureLook -sepia”
4. Check it out in play mode, and if you like it, save and publish.

Filters available
-filmnoir
-eightbit
-sixteenbit
-watercolor
-norainbows
-sepia
-none

To reference the filter list in your game, type “help adventureLook” into the cheat console to list all filters.

MaxisCactus’ Tip: Don’t use the styleFilter cheat when in adventure mode. It won’t work and the adventure may break.

Posted in Galactic Adventure, Spore Expansions, Spore News | 2 Comments »

GameStop’s Summer Sale 09′ – Spore for $20

Posted by judhudson on July 9, 2009

GameStop’s huge summer sale for 2009 kicked off, and they’ve slashed many of their games down to $20.  Spore is one of those games, and at that price it’s a must buy!  Better hurry though, as the deal will only last til’ August 2nd!

LOL @ the digital download costing more than the retail game :P

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Spore Galactic Adventures User Upload Challenge 2 – Summer Vacation

Posted by judhudson on July 9, 2009

It’s time once again for Spore’s YouTube User Upload Challenge!  This time, they’d like for you to create an adventure based around a summer-time theme.

Its summer time and we want to know where your Captain is!

Create a summer-themed adventure for your Captain in Spore Galactic Adventures. It could based around your favorite summer activity (BBQ, camp, summer blockbuster movie) or feature a summer objective (make it to the beach on time!).

Once you have created your adventure, make a video trailer for the mission and post it as a video response to show everyone what your Captain is doing this summer. Make sure to note the name of the mission in your video so people can find it in Sporepedia!

And dont forget to check out last weeks best user challenge video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrKXJ…
(Go Crygoth!!)

Stay tuned for next weeks YouTube video challenge….

Helpful Technical Information:

To participate in our challenge enter your video as a video response to this one. Here’s how to create a video file to upload manually:

-To capture video in Spore Galactic Adventures, click V to begin video capture and V to end video capture

- Your video will be posted in the “Movies” folder which is located in your “My Spore Creations” directory

- Post your finished video as a video response to this video by clicking “Post a Video Response” in the video response section to the left

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Accepting Questions for Spore Hero/Spore Hero Arena Fansite Interview

Posted by judhudson on July 8, 2009

*Update* – 7/12/09

Thanks for your questions!  The lucky three I plan to turn in to MaxisCactus are:

  • Any plans to have either a Wii/DS specific Sporepedia to where we can download other people’s (or our friend’s) creations to use them in our game or even share screens or videos?
  • The Paint mode in Spore Hero Wii – can we now paint our creatures bodies in specific areas using the Wii’s motion controls or is it similiar to Spore PC’s version where we just pick default skins and adjust the color?
  • What’s the relationship between Spore Hero Arena and Spore Creatures? Is the prior considered a sequel or are the stories related in any way?

Hey fellow Spore fans!  I just got an email from MaxisCactus that contains new exclusive images (see below) as well as an opportunity to submit three questions about Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo Wii and DS!  Producers Jason Haber and Mathieu Cote will answer these questions, so if at all possible, leave your best questions as a comment in this post and I’ll pick the best three from the bunch.  I’m going to try to cap the questions off this Friday (July 10th) as the questions need to be turned in via the 14th.

Oh, and I’m making this post a sticky until Friday:)

Exclusive Nintendo DS Screens

i FightonIcePlanet squirrel

Exclusive Nintendo Wii Screens

ChargingUp MushGrove Creature Creator Kikirisu

Posted in Spore Hero, Spore Hero Arena, Spore News | 5 Comments »

SporeDay: SporeGalaxy

Posted by judhudson on July 8, 2009

For today’s (7/7/09) SporeDay, Maxis treats us with a brand new website called SporeGalaxy.  The website, setup very similar to the game’s main screen design will allow users to search for creations by their tags and to view them in a planet setting.

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Spore Hero Arena DS – HQ boxart

Posted by judhudson on July 7, 2009

SporeBR found a much better version of the Spore Hero Arena boxart for the Nintendo DS.  Thanks to SimsDomination for the tip!

Posted in Spore Hero Arena, Spore News | 1 Comment »

Site status

Posted by judhudson on July 5, 2009

Hey Guys,

I’ve been trying to keep up with your comments.  I would like to mention once again that Ballightning is currently on a trip and he won’t be back until July 12.  While I’d love to give everyone a helping hand solving their spore problems – whether it’s the patch or the mods not working with Galactic Adventures, I can’t really do so.  Ball is the expert when it comes to Spore – I’m mostly a news guy.  So if you can, I’d really appreciate it if you can give each other advice if needed.  Thank you.  And Happy 4th of July to those in the US :)

-Jud

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Stuff.co.nz – Spore: Galactic Adventures review

Posted by judhudson on July 5, 2009

For now, the player-created missions can range from the boring and trivial to the outrageously difficult. Many are designed with the creator’s own space captain in mind. In time however, the cream will rise to the top and amateur designers from within the Spore community will no doubt become the respected producers of highly anticipated content.

Spore: Galactic Adventures has unlimited potential. In many ways, it’s difficult to write a conclusive review because it’s not a finished product. Like the creatures that players create, the game itself will evolve.

As users become increasingly familiar with the inherent flaws of the Maxis-created missions and begin to design their own that circumnavigate these issues, the ever-expanding Spore universe will shine and the community will prosper.

review here

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Game and Player – Spore Galactic Adventures review

Posted by judhudson on July 5, 2009

Much like the base game of Spore, most of Galactic Adventures‘ problems seem to be due to the fact there are so many potential variables in the game. In having to cater for every possible creature combination, certain problems arose specifically in the creature stage such as clipping and less responsive controls than you’d expect from a standard third-person game. Since the adventure mode is heavily based on that stage, most of those issues return, but this time more pronounced given some of the more complicated abilities of your captain such as targeting ranged weaponry.

continue on

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MaxisCactus’ Quick Guide to GA Achievements

Posted by judhudson on July 3, 2009

Not sure what all of the Achievements (minus the secret ones) that you can earn in Spore Galactic Adventures?  MaxisCactus would like to share a list with you then posted in this thread over at the Sporums:

Not sure why your achievement didn’t show up when you thought it should, or simply looking for some notes on the GA achievement set?

Here’s a quick list of achievements along with some useful notes about earning them. Hope this helps.

  • Secret achievements not listed
  • If you cheat in your game, achievements will not be unlocked

Aeschylus:
Create 10 Adventures. Each must be started from scratch and saved.

Moliere:
Create 50 Adventures. Each must be started from scratch and saved.

Shakespeare:
Create 100 Adventures. Each started from scratch and saved.

Costume Piece:
Create 50 Adventures with Tribe, Civilization and Empire Creatures. Each adventure may have any combination of the three (at least one in each category). Each adventure started from scratch and saved.

Scientist:
Place 200 Non-Accessorized Creatures into your Adventures. You must place 200 un-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Going Tribal:
Place 200 Tribal Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 tribe-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

So Civilized:
Place 200 Civilized Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 civ-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Emperor:
Place 200 Empire Creatures in your Adventures. You must place 200 space-accessorized creature instances in any number of adventures, each adventure created from scratch and saved.

Still Life:
Create 30 Adventures without any creatures. Captain avatar needs to be in the scene and each adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Happy Times:
Create 30 Adventures with all peaceful actors. This applies to Creatures-only. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Large Ensemble:
Create 30 Adventures with over 100 actors in each. Includes creatures/vehicles/buildings. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved.

Terraformer:
Create 50 Adventures using planets you terraformed. You must modify the terrain. Each Adventure must be created from scratch and saved. The terrain for each planet must be modified using the terraform stamp tool. Painting or changing the weather does not count, it has to be the terrain that changes. The captain must be in the scene to save.

Architect:
Place 500 Buildings into your Adventures. Adds up over multiple adventures, each Adventure created from scratch and saved. The buildings can be the same instance copied and pasted multiple times in the scene.

Mechanic:
Place 500 Vehicles into your Adventures. Adds up over multiple adventures, each Adventure created from scratch and saved. The buildings can be the same instance copied and pasted multiple times in the scene.

Delirious Designer:
Create 50 Adventures using only your own creations. The creations have to be made from the current user, not others. Creations must be placed in the scene. This includes creatures, vehicles and buildings. Each Adventure created from scratch and saved.

Dabbler:
Download 500 Adventures. This include maxis and user created adventures. This achievement can be also achieved by adding buddies. It will unlock automatically once you log in if they have multiple adventures already uploaded. Adventures must be unique.

Bestseller:
Create a featured Adventure. Note: This is a server side achievement so there will be no pop up. The server takes 8-10 mins. to ping back that the achievement has being completed. This creation must be featured on the web site.

Adventurer:
Complete an Adventure in Space. Any adventures will satisfy this including maxis made. You need to report back to the empire and finish the mission.

Grand Adventurer:
Complete 100 Adventures in the Space Stage. Maxis or user created adventures count and you need to report back to the empires and finish the missions.

Geared Up:
Outfit 50 Creatures with Adventure parts. The creatures have to be different. The creatures need to be saved in the Captain outfitter in order to unlock this achievement.

Consumer:
Finish 200 adventures made by other players. Either SPG or Quick PLay. Captain must be unlocked. Can be unlocked with any adventures (including Maxis-made), as long as they’re not created by the current player. Must be played and completed with a captain not a creature with just adventure parts.

Red Shirt:
Lose 100 posse members while playing Adventures in Space Game. Posse members include creatures befriended in the adventure or SPG posse. This counts with Maxis made or user made adventures. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

Mercenary:
Kill 1,000 creatures while playing Adventures in Space Game. Epics also count for this achievement. Maxis and player made adventures count. The Adventure must be completed for the kill to count. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

My Precious:
Collect 3,000 objects while playing Adventures in Space Game. Complete 3,000 collect goals (this is goal based, it does not count for every asset). The goal has to be set to collect. Adventure creators can set the collect goal to buildings, vehicles and creatures. You must finish the adventure to get the achievement. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

My Hero:
Protect 500 creatures while playing Adventures in Space Game. This achievement actually applies to buildings, vehicles and creatures. Each goal needs to be completed for it to be tallied up at the end of the adventure (this is goal based, it does not count for every asset). The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement.

Major Contributor:
Give 500 gifts while playing Adventures in Space Game. Note that gifts can be given to vehicles, buildings and creatures. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. This is goal based, it does not count for every asset. The Adventure Must be completed.

Dragon Slayer:
Kill 1,000 Epics while playing Adventures in Space Game. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. The adventure must be successfully completed. This achievement is not goal based, each epic counts.

My First Captain:
Raise a Captain to Rank 10 through Space stage or Quick Play. The creature must be made captain in Space game, but it can be used in Space or Quick Play adventures to earn this achievement.

Captain Academy:
Raise 10 Captains to Rank 10 through Space stage or Quick Play. The creature must be made captain in Space game, but it can be used in Space or Quick Play adventures to earn this achievement.

Storyteller:
Publish 50 adventures. Share 50 adventures, each created from scratch.

Publish Author:
Publish an Adventure. Share an adventure for the first time.

Social Butterfly:
Befriend 1,000 Creatures while playing adventures in the Space Game. The same adventure can be played over and over to unlock this achievement. This is goal based, it does not count for every gift. Adventures must be authored by other players.

Auto Wrecker:
Destroy 1,000 vehicles while playing adventures in the Space Game.

Demolition Expert:
Destroy 1,000 Buildings while playing adventures in the Space Game.

Faithful Zealot:
Unlock all Zealot parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 zealot parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Universal Ecologist:
Unlock all Ecologist parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 ecologist parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Wise Shaman:
Unlock all shaman parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 shaman parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Fierce Warrior:
Unlock all warrior parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 warrior parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Industrious Trader:
Unlock all trader parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 trader parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Intelligent Scientist:
Unlock all scientist parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 scientist parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Joyful Bard:
Unlock all bard parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 bard parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

Just Diplomat:
Unlock all diplomat parts on a captain. Unlock all 4 diplomat parts by completing Adventures in Space Game only. Quick play does not count.

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Celebrate your Independence with 2 new Spore Galactic Adventures missions!

Posted by judhudson on July 3, 2009

Check out this new press release from EA – celebrate the 4th of July (as Maxis is an American-based Studio) with 2 new adventures:  ‘How a Bill Becomes Law‘ and ‘Kaboom!

July 2, 2009 – Happy 4th of July! To help celebrate our nation’s birthday, the developers at Maxis have created two holiday-themed missions from the latest video game, Spore Galactic Adventures. The adventures, entitled ‘How a Bill Becomes Law’ and ‘Kaboom!,’ are both available for download today at www.spore.com. Both missions, created with the Adventure Creator tool in Spore Galactic Adventures, allows for infinite creative possibilities!

‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’- The Spoffit species are in trouble and you need to pass legislation to save them! A fun twist on a civics lesson and inspired by the 1970s TV show Schoolhouse Rock, you must lobby, ultimately turning a bill into a law.

‘Kaboom!’- It’s time for a Fourth of July celebration! The picnic is all set up, the fire’s ready for s’mores, but there’s a problem with the fireworks display. Can you help the Independence Day picnic go off with a BANG?

Spore Galactic Adventures, the expansion to the critically-acclaimed game Spore, is designed to expand the Spore universe. Spore Galactic Adventures delivers hilarious new adventures to players who aspire to become their own space captain, beam down to strange new planets, create customized adventures and take their favorite Spore creature from zero to galactic hero!

With the Adventure Creator, gamers are able to realize their most outlandish, challenging and fun adventure fantasies (like ‘Kaboom!’ and ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’) by creating personalized missions. This easy-to-use tool gives players the ability to not only create, but play and share missions with friends online at www.spore.com. With more than 105 million creations available in the Sporepedia, the Spore library of user-generated content for use in players’ missions, the only limit is their imaginations!

Check out ‘Kaboom!’, ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’ and more than 30,000 missions in Spore Galactic Adventures at www.spore.com/sporepedia!

Follow us on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/MaxisSpore and check out tons of cool videos at: www.youtube.com/spore

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