Spore-like Creature Creator?

I love the Starbound Character Creator and the endless alien fauna that is created. However I can't help but wonder what the game would be like if you could create our own alien race like in Spore. Back before Spore came out a guy named I huggkruka and I built a 2D creature editor in anticipation of the 3D Spore Creature Creator. I would think a 2D pixel art one would be possible for Starbound if it was done in the same manner where pre-made parts could be placed on a body like Mr. Potato Head. Seems to me that nearly all the tools are made already and it would just take an extra step to merge them into a Spore-like Creature Creator.

What do you guys think?

 

Sounds cool, i am a SPORE-forever fan too. Pretty interesting, probably a future possibility after the full release.

But yeah, id'e back it : D

 

Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!YEEEEES! I 100% support this. Hell, make it have all the creations networked together like in Spore, like I create a creature, upload it, then you bump into it in your travels. This is awesome, one of the best suggestions I've seen.

 

we had discuss this before many time. I wish you guys read the rules or either the developer have to set up "forums had repeatedly" which we are getting random generated monster mix to let you know which it is in general forum.

 

May i also include this as a great idea for a mod?

 

I think this is part of Tiy's post-release vision for Director Mode. Just saying.

 

This is a terrible idea. I used to love spore. But Spore and Starbound are holy different.

 

Ermm... What's not to stop 100,000 people to make 'male reproductive organs'? Although I do think it would be a pretty interesting idea and could open up a whole new vast world.

 

It won't kill SB, all it will do is widen the range of customization in the char. creator. You can have different color skins, different body types, ect. It would just have a mega preset of parts and stuff.

But as i said before, it maybe better for a mod than a release, but either way i wouldn't mind.

 

I agree completely. They are also wholly different.

 

I doubt that Starbound's creature creator would be as complex as the one found in Spore. We'd most likely just be limited towards creating bipeds, quadrupeds, flyers (birds, bats, and butterflies), and swimmers (fish, dolphins, and sharks) using stock parts (head, ears, eyes, head spines, back spines, tail, legs, arms, body, etc.).

 

No.

 

Just pretend I spelled wholly correctly and carry on.....

 

Well it was actually mentioned that when you start the game you will be able to choose whether you want a pet/companion or not. If you pick that you want one, you will be able to customize it to look from anything as simple as a dog to a monster.

 

It would be more than that. And I realize there is that random generator for creatures. This would be for playable races and not NPCs or randomized creatures. Its basically taking the creature randomize and merging it with the character creator.

Like I said this is for the player race. So yes if someone wants to play as a phallic alien then they could. But you would only encounter players and not a planet of phallic aliens like in Spore. Note that nothing is stopping a player from terraforming a planet into a bunch of "male reproductive organs" you could already do that in Terraria.

 

then it would be screw up because tiy said every races has its own ability which its going screw up how ability work into the game then. Example trying make OP races that among helps of all, look at the races or the alien. Which this remind me that one time some guy said same thing about character creation like a golem idea as you playing. Which probably half members said no, but I say "maybe" which the game have to grow out bit more which I meant by let the beta open up first then we will deiced do we need such a thing. So yea, just wait for such a thing comes out.

 

I think'd be better if this idea applied to the NPC's only. A creature creator. We get access to all the pieces the random generator has and piece them together how we see fit. Male genitalia would be minimal this way.

 

I agree. We should limit the creature creator towards creating custom "mobs" instead of custom "playable races", especially in the short term.

 

You could still incorporate race specific stuff. Look at games like Masters of Orion II where they have preset alien races with special stats but you can also make your own custom stats that can be created with a "point buy" system.



Having both preset and custom races would allow the player a more personalized race while still limited to preset options.

 

yea, tiy said the class perks be state of equal, so stats is not going be there, its going be all the armor research again. here is another problem, the players will choose that is best to be OP wtih because some races are really unbalance just like in dark soul how many people chose pyromancer class to just finish the game with in less then hours. Sooo...we don't exactly know we should customized such thing or have a thing. which it is not bad idea of chose having bad side and the good side will effect the races, which your point is agreedable and disagreeable.

Like I said "wait and be patient" cuz we don't know how many people made the most horrible races as a perk or either that figure out how make most powerful races among starbound. Lets wait and see.