Spore API Contest 09 - Winners Announced!

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Winners Announced!

Of the entries recieved we had a very hard time chosing the final winners, but these three apps stood out as incredible, innovative uses of the Spore API.

Congratulations to their creators, and we hope you enjoy playing with them!

Grand Prize Winner: Spore Skeletons by Aaron Meyers
Spore Skeletons Discussion
Spore Skeletons generates 3D stick figures out of Spore creatures using the creature's XML recipe which is available via the Spore API.

It's beautiful and stylishly presented. The cutting edge augmented reality mode superimposes virtual creatures over the real world! We awarded first prize to this entry for its creative representation of Spore creatures and its wonderful use of ground breaking technology.

Second Place: Quality Spore by SniperMOnkey
Quality Spore Discussion
QualitySpore is just breathtakingly pretty. What an elegantly designed Sporepedia viewer!

The stats visualization mode for creatures is also excellent. We couldn't have done it better ourselves.

Third Place: Sporenament by JoeyBagOfDonuts
Sporenament Discussion
Sporenament appears to be a fairly simple game on first look but is in fact a really clever way of bubbling up cool Spore content.

While we were testing Sporenament at the Maxis office, we saw the winning creatures from the first round played on one player's machine show up as competitors in the second round on another player's machine!

So, if you are playing rounds 2 and beyond in the Sporenament, you are playing with handpicked crowd-sourced Spore content! We are very excited about future developments in this direction.

Check out the winning apps here:

http://www.spore.com/comm/contests#API

We'll be posting several more entries worthy of honorable mention in our API gallery soon. Don't forget to check back so see if your entry made it in.

http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/gallery

Contest Details

The Spore API is up and running, and we're calling on you to kick the tires!

Show off your development skills by entering the Spore API Contest 09. We want you to come up with the most exciting and original visualization or app and share it with us!

Prizes
• Grand Prize: NVIDIA graphics card
• First runner up: Copy of Spore game and Galactic Adventures
• Second runner up: Copy of Galactic Adventures

Questions about making an app?

You can check out apps other players have made in our App Gallery, or chat about how to make your app in the Developer Corner forum section.

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I thought the next challenge would be a photoshop challenge

Too bad I cant develop apps

Not everyone has Photoshop. Everyone can program, however, as everyone has Notepad.

Ricotez wrote:Not everyone has Photoshop. Everyone can program, however, as everyone has Notepad.

That's not true. You have to know how to program. If you do not know how to program, it won't even matter if you have software developed for making programs.

Basically, look at it is this way. Program languages are called languages for a reason. If you do not understand how to "speak and write" the language how can you do something that requires you to write in that language? The point is, it's basically like asking everybody to write a 4 page essay, but it has to been in French. Everybody pretty much has access to a word processing program that can make those special French characters, but it doesn't mean they could do it unless they understand and write in French.

However, I am not against this contest, even though I do no know any programming languages needed for it. But I do sympathies with people that would like to have a 2D art contest as well.

Or... An animation contest, and i NEED a programing tut, i have visual basic, but what part of it should i start with?

My point is, everyone can learn how to program without the need of additional software.

Ricotez wrote:My point is, everyone can learn how to program without the need of additional software.

I use gimp, its free

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Having a 2D art contest is a great idea, and we'll keep it in mind for the future.

Also, hopefully this contest will motivate people who've never programmed before to try it out. The Spore Aquarium was my first app, made specifically so I could find out what this contest would require of people.

I've never programmed before, but I used a sample app as a template, then worked from there.

Don't count yourself out of this one before checking out the samples. You can get all the source coded needed, then just tweak it to add your own personal touch.

http://www.spore.com/comm/developer

-MC

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Why didn't you TELL me there where demos? Thank you.

Now, what sample type to use...

MaxisCactus wrote:Having a 2D art contest is a great idea, and we'll keep it in mind for the future.

Also, hopefully this contest will motivate people who've never programmed before to try it out. The Spore Aquarium was my first app, made specifically so I could find out what this contest would require of people.

I've never programmed before, but I used a sample app as a template, then worked from there.

Don't count yourself out of this one before checking out the samples. You can get all the source coded needed, then just tweak it to add your own personal touch.

http://www.spore.com/comm/developer

-MC

Catus this has been bugging me for awile. If you hadn't programed alot what do you do at EAxis?

Drawing, alpha testing...

I don't know how to make an APP.

No you don't , nither do I, and all the demo's use a scripting laguage like flash or something else that i don't have.

Is this contest for ALL developers, or only for those of one single country (the USA)?

Read the rules.