250,000 Spore creatures created/shared in one day

EA says the response to the free tool has been "overwhelming".

If you haven't seen a user created Spore creature over the past few days then where exactly have you been? These things have been plastered all over the Internet. So successful has the free Creature Creator and £5 retail product been that over 250,000 Spore creatures have been created and shared in a single day.

"The response to the Spore Creature Creator has been overwhelming," said executive producer Lucy Bradshaw. "The creativity and passion that the community is putting into their creatures is spectacular. The development team has spent the last 24 hours checking out the amazing creations racing in from all corners of the globe - with peak volume hitting more than 1,000 creatures being shared a minute."

EA certainly appears to have hit a home run with Spore Creature creator and will be hoping for similar success when the full version of Spore launches on September 5, 2008.