Spore What type of creature..

I really liked the spiderish creature from the new screenshot, so I probaly will make something like that :bouncy:

 

Mine will be extremely dangerous. Their military ranks will charge up and control the entire universe. Either surrender and hand over your money or perish beneath my tidal wave of evil.

By the way, carebears would be weak hunters until they get weapons I think...

 

Molyneux is to Black and White as Wright is to Spore.

You got your game designers mixed up.

 

yea oops sorry

 

:spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: confusionization again....wuaaaaaaaa :spin: :sporerules: :yikes: <that guys on crackXD

 

mine will look like my avatar

and im solely creating it for it to get completely slaughtered by everything that wants to slaughter it!

so hopefully with all your maniac death dealing creaturs in your games you will come acros some of these things and eat them a bit :laughing2:

 

already having my Yokins..

and I'm also going to make these wonderful beautiful mermaid-birds.. hehe birmaids!! or merds... no matter what, they are gonna live beautiful and ANTI war-ish...!!

 

In the same vein as Will's Carebear obsession, I have a burning desire to make Smurfs .. with a complete Smurf village. It'll be .. smurfy .

 

wow... smurfs... :shocked: smurfy-doody great idea!


here's a picture of that "thing" I want to have as my sea-creature



I hope it works"!!

And for you everybody.. This picture is taken from NEOPETS.com.. :laughing2:

 

What did I tell you about copyright violations? Who called it? Give me props. Give me props right now.

 

someone's in a teasing mood

I hope neopets.com wont come running after me with a bill or something?!?! arrrrrgh

 

You wouldn't get sued. Maxis or EA or whatever company they've merged into now would get it. And no, you're not an isolated incident. I can say with reasonable certainty that there are thousands of other fools out there saying they're the only one doing it too. The minute someone seriously complains and threatens a lawsuit, your creatures will be removed from the server. It's as simple as that.

 

The Exchange and any Sims fansite is full of recreations of copyrighted characters. If no one's shut that down yet, I don't think there's very much to worry about.

It is a grey area, in terms of copyright. Fan fiction, fan art, etc., is generally tollerated, though, because no one's (usually) trying to make a buck off of the original work. As long as you aren't trying to sell it, or otherwise diminishing their ability to make a profit, the companies don't seem to really care too much.

Except Mattel, of course. They're very aggressive about protecting the Barbie name - to the point of trying to force Barbie Anderson to change the name of her store / website (www.barbiesshop.com). So I guess no Barbie spores .

 

Ah. But all the Sims were human. You can't copyright the way that someone looks. Well. Sort of yes and no with DNA copyrights, but identical twins prove that nutrition and exercise change the expression of genes in humans. As with all other organisms.

The thing with Spore is just the opposite. Much like City of Heroes, where someone (DC Comix or whichever other nerd fest that was) created the original content all from their mind, much like that Aysha or Ayla thing or whatever from Neopets. Even if you only had about twenty people recreating characters and creatures from whatever they could find, and the average time it takes to create a look-a-like of something is one hour, and since these are ubergeeks they play for at least three hours a day, in one month you could have potentially 1,800 copyright violations. Now that's very vague, but probably on the low side. In actuality we'll see worlds populated with all 300 bajillion pokemon, all of the neopets characters, any particularly strange cartoon whatsit that some ten year old saw on tv and has the amazing visual skills to create, all within three weeks. Now if that doesn't piss someone off, I don't know what will. Especially with those crazy pokemon people. That line goes down a number of other roads I don't even want to think about.

Now yes, I concede that Spore is a "MMOSPG", but you're still getting everyone elses content. The fact that you don't have to pay a subscription fee monthly may also come into play, as manufacturers aren't responsible for what people do with a product once all financial transactions have been completed. But then I'm not a soothsayer, so I could be well off the mark.

 

Whén people makes pokemon or neopet it's fan-creation, you don't sell it to anybody. That means you can make anything what you like. Pokemon's desingners aren't going to watch what you make. Same thing with neopets. No-one doesn't come to say: "you can't draw scorchio! It's copyrighted!"

 

perhaps the name of the thread should be "What kind of Law Suit...."

 

Woops! Off-topic! Well my critter will be cute serpent! ^^

 

Connect the dots here people. You have to pay for Spore, and when you log on it instantly downloads some copyrighted character not made by the original author. That seems like a bit of iffy ground to me.

 

I don't think we're going to have a huge problem with copyrighted stuff. Yeah, people are gonna recreate their favourite creatures at some point in their Spore life. In the grand scheme of things, though, this is going to be a fairly small portion of the total creatures. I mean, it might be fun to have Homer in your Sims game, but do you really want to conquer the galaxy with an army of Homers? (Mmm .. donut ..)

There's another reason we may not be seeing too many of these guys. These creatures aren't likely to be the "fittest" animals, from a survival standpoint. Look at Will's Carebear. It's cute and all, but in reality, it would be devoured in a second by some big angry-looking veloci-spider. From the game's point of view, these novelty creatures aren't likely to appear very useful, so it probably isn't going to put too many of them into your world.

 

hehe,, thank you everybody, I feel safe now :spin:

and,, that means I can still make that blue-creature I showed higher up right???
And I'm probobly gonna make SOME changes on it.. For an example, those arms wouldn't survive in this game, there'll be needed superfast fins :laughing2: