Yep, that's a lot of cartoony creatures out there in the wild. Electronic Arts has just announced that the release of the stand alone editor the Spore Creature Creator has caused over 250,000 fictional critters to be created by its various users.

The press release claims that at peak times over 1,000 creatures per minute are being shared by the players using the the editor-marketing tool for the upcoming Spore sim game. While Big Download of course has both the PC and Mac free demos of the editor available for download right now, EA is now selling the full version with the other 75 percent of the content not in the demo for $9.99. Oh, and did we mentiion we have a cool contest to find the best creature made by the editor? Oh, well we are mentioning it again.