f you’d like to get your creative juices flowing and/or torture yourself until the full version of Spore is released in September, EA has a deal for you. This June (the 17th, to be exact), the company is releasing a demo and full retail version of the game’s Creature Editor. The downloadable demo will allow users to design and share their own critters using a quarter of the game’s tools. Once finished, user creations can be uploaded to YouTube, too. If that’s not enough, for $9.99 players can purchase the full version of the Creature Editor, or get it packaged in with the upcoming SimCity Box. 

"We are thrilled to finally be putting the creative tools of Spore into the hands of players around the world," said Will Wright, chief designer, Maxis. "The amazing creations players design this summer will help populate the game universe we all enter when Spore ships this September, so in a sense, the Spore Creature Creator is the birth of Spore."