Comments on HexAppeal: Spore

Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the gala...

2009-11-02T22:33:32.028-08:00

Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the galaxy. There are over 500,000 unique planets to explore! That's just unbelievable! Also you can create any type of creature and all the creatures you run into are from other players. No other game can claim this.. The best part of this game is the space phase, you could spend a lifetime exploring all the planets and meeting new creatures.. This game is limitless, there is no other game that comes close to this one.
Anyway, if you have time, take a visit to my Download Games website.

Yes, I should have updated the post. I found it to...

2008-08-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

Yes, I should have updated the post. I found it too (and as far as I know, responsible to making it more publicized), and wrote a short description of the encoding mechanism here

I read somewhere that this has already been figure...

2008-08-13T11:30:00.000-07:00

I read somewhere that this has already been figured out. There is a python script that will extract or embed the model data in a png. It's xml once you descramble it.

Hey Mythor,LSB is the least significant bit, which...

2008-07-30T01:23:00.000-07:00

Hey Mythor,
LSB is the least significant bit, which in our case means the bit that changing it would cause the least noticeable change in colors.
As for PNG containers, this would be the obvious place to save the creature's data. Alas, Maxis chose not to do so, and there isn't any specially created container in the files.

I'm not sure what an "LSB" is, but they've said th...

2008-07-26T08:43:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure what an "LSB" is, but they've said the way they're putting the creature information into the images is via containers in the PNG file.
A similar example is the way JPG files can store EXIF data.
PNG containers are structured in such a way as to allow programs to read the data that is relevant to them and ignore any data that isn't.
I don't know if there's a PNG container viewing program about, but that may give you a place to start if you're interested. :)

- Mythor
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