Recreating The Dark Crystal with Spore
Tuesday, 14th July 2009
Do you remember the fantastic 1982 Jim Henson movie “The Dark Crystal“. It featured two brave gelfings in a struggle to cope with the Dark Crystal and perhaps help the wise and kind Mystics against the evil and cruel Skeksi.
Fast forward the clock to today and EA’s rather addictive creature creating game – Spore. Spore allows users to create creatures to play and to add to their friends’ game worlds. Rather cleverly EA let users upload video captures of their favourite creatures to YouTube.
The two combine nicely in this YouTube mashup – the music from The Dark Crystal along with a mystic like creature created in Spore.
There’s also some pretty good attempts to create the bad guys. Try this one out;
