These naughty - some would say obscene - creations have spawned an Internet meme nicknamed 'Sporn,' short for 'Spore' porn.įor EA, the developer of 'Spore,' it's the downside to tapping into the booming user-generated content arena, which has made sites like YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and Second Life so popular. VideoWatch Bradshaw demonstrate the 'Creature Creator' and 'Spore' » Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a 'giant breast monster' and a four-legged 'phallic fornication machine,' for starters. Within 24 hours of the Creature Creator's release, gamers had gone creature-crazy, designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a database and shown on a YouTube channel for the public to see.īut scrolling through the database - past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig - revealed something many users didn't expect.

The game, a joint venture from 'Sims' creator Will Wright and Electronic Arts, allows users to create a unique creature and then control its evolution from a single cell into a complex cultural civilization. It started when the makers of 'Spore' released a Creature Creator program that allowed users to develop their own characters to drum up hype before the game's scheduled release in September. (CNN) - When makers of one of the most anticipated video games of the year invited users to help design part of the game, the gamers jumped at the chance to create animated characters.īut some took it upon themselves to create something entirely different: a new kind of Internet porn. * One Sporn creator: 'I don't think there's anything perverted, vile or awful about it' * 'Spore' maker EA is banning those who continue to upload offensive creations * Some users have created sexual creatures, now known as 'Sporn'

* Creature Creator allows gamers to design characters for new 'Spore' game Video game's user content spawns naughty Web 'Sporn'

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