The just released Spore Creature Creator for PC/Mac (paid $9.95/£4.99 or demo at Spore.com) gives players anticipating the full Spore release on September 7th a preview.
The Spore Creature Creator utility includes a test environment for players to see their creatures go through animations and allow the player to import other user-created creatures through the Sporepedia at Spore.com. Creatures created with this utility will help populate the Spore universe when the game is released. The utility includes screen capture and video tools as well, including Youtube functionality. The Creature Creator also gives the user the ability to create animated avatars, and can output in RSS and embeddable HTML code to help with easy incorporation into such sites as MySpace and Facebook.
Create your creatures and bring them to life.
What happens when people go crazy with it?
While the demo version of the editor only contains 25% of the available creature parts, you can use it to join a competition on Bigdownload.com to win one of 10 copies of the full version of the Spore Creature Creator.