Spore.com - Creature Creation Tool Brings 2.0 to Games

Spore, from Electronic Arts, is a new web 2.0 gaming software which lets players create wide eyed, squishy looking creatures of all shapes and sizes. The ‘creature creator’ as it’s called is available as a 300mb download. The object of Spore, besides getting to create fantastic creatures, is to explore and colonize the universe with your creations. However, that part is due out with the release of the actual Spore game later this year. Right now, users can whet their whistles with the web enabled creature creator. The site is currently filled with galleries and in game screenshots. Users can drag in photos from the galleries to use in creating their own creatures. The site also features widgets which can be thrown up on blogs and social networks depicting user’s Spore creatures

“Spore offers you choices to play the way you want to!
With Spore, anyone can be creative - make whatever you can imagine with easy built-in Creator tools. Then create and guide your unique personal creature on an epic journey of discovery.”

Spore is a tantalizing look at what’s to come later this year. The creatures are visually engaging, and the functionalities included within this web package provide interesting possibilities for online integration and sharing. Users will be able to keep up their gaming habits without all the fancy hardware.

How robust is this online implementation of Spore? Will users be able to easily integrate their creations with the next release?