Anticipating the September released of Spore, Maxis unveiled Spore Creature Creator, a stand alone product available for PC and Mac, with which the players can bring to “life” their creatures.

Will Wright, who is Maxis Chief Designer and the father of SimCity and The Sims, presented his concept about Spore at GDC 2005. Spore, that follows under the God game category, aims to be the best simulation game ever.

The player will take the control of a simple microbe and with the Editors offered by the game, it will transform the simple form of life into an intelligent, tool-using race.

And this is just the beginning. The player should guide his species to build and evolve in a huge, lush world populated with creatures evolved by other players and shared over SPORE’s central servers.

When it is ready,the one-time pond scum will launch into space in its UFO on a grand voyage of discovery, planet forming, or destruction.

In 2006, Spore was presented on the front cover of the front cover of The Wall Street Journal, with an article titled "Master of the Universe" and with the following tagline: "Meet the man who proved videogames don't have to be about sex and gore"

The trial version of Spore Game Creature, which weighs 205.67 MB (196.61 MB for the Mac version) offers 25% of the creature-making parts from Spore and lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creatures.

Of course, the creatures can be imported into the future full game, but until now the players will be able to share their creations with others on Sporepedia.

Spore Creature Creator is also integrated with YouTube and the players can upload video of their creatures' moves to Spore Channel.

Spore is scheduled to be released on September 5.