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Are you enjoying the Spore Creature Creator? Good. Have you been creating all sorts of abominations. Even better. Have you submitted any of them to Big Download's Spore Creature Creator contest? You haven't? What are you waiting for?

Big Download is looking for your most ingenious, funniest, and absurd creations (nothing pornographic, please). Choose your absolute best design, submit it to us up until July 1, and cross your fingers in the hope of winning one of our awesome prizes.

Interested in full details? Of course you are! Everything you need to know is gathered right here, so read carefully, download the Creature Creator demo if you haven't already (you can use the full version if you have it), and let your imagination run wild.

Official Rules.
Contest announcement.
Spore Creature Creator demo.

The website belonging to the magazine Computer and Video Games is hosting a handful of videos of exceptional creatures created in the Spore Creature Creator. There are some great ones -- a spot-on Pikachu, for example. But if Pokémon isn't sophomoric enough for you, we'll warn you that there are seedier alternatives. Like, say ... huge walking male genitalia. Hey, we warned you, okay? The disturbing part is that YouTube is now filled with videos of Spore penises. Oy.

Some are completely innocuous, though, like a carefully created dragon (also from Pokémon, apparently). If you've made an awesome Spore creature, we suggest you show it to us, not just YouTube. That way, you get cool prizes. Just a thought. But please try to keep your head out of the gutter!

Download the Spore Creature Creator demo for Windows or Mac from Big Download
Enter the Big Download Spore Creature Creator Giveaway Contest

Yesterday, Amazon let slip that the Spore Creature Creator trial will be included in the forthcoming SimCity Box compilation. In the wake of that news, IGN sat down with Maxis marketing VP Patrick Buechner. Buechner exposed almost all the information you could want about Creature Creator.

It won't just come with the SimCity Box. The same trial that's in the Box will be freely available for download at www.spore.com "around the same day" (so, around June 23). Additionally, there will be a stand-alone retail version of Creator Creator with four times as many "creature-making parts." No word on how much that will cost.

Creature Creator users will be able to piece together, mold, and paint creature models. They'll be able to try those models out in a test area, and share them with friends. Also, anything they make can be imported in the release version of Spore, which will become available in North America and Europe early this September.

Earlier this year, we all learned of EA's plans to release a Spore creature creator program prior to the launch of Spore this fall. We wondered: is it a demo, a character-creation-menu of sorts, or something in between? More importantly -- when and how can we get our hands on it?

We might have an answer to the "when and how" bit now. Amazon.com's product page for the SimCity Box compilation features (or rather, featured; we'll get to that in a moment) an image of the box art for said compilation. In the top-right corner, you'll find these words: "BONUS! SPORE Creature Creator Trial Version Inside!"

The image has since been pulled, but it's all over the 'net now. So that brings us to the earlier question: is it a demo, or what? Either way, it's probably not worth spending $40 for if you've got all those SimCity games already. If you don't, it's actually not a bad deal. For everyone else; maybe it will become freely available further down the line.

[Via Joystiq]