As some of you may know from the podcast I’ve been playing uber amounts of Spore lately. Though much of the game can be conquered without breaking the tiniest sweat, the real fun comes from watching your creature evolve and adapt to the situations it faces. That’s pretty much what Adventures in Sporeland is all about. This is a chronicling of the Turzex race from their humble beginnings from walking on land, to their uncertain future throughout the galaxy.

Simply put, the Turzex race is an aggressive, no nonsense group of creatures. I suppose that’s what I was going for when I decided to make them meat eaters. What I didn’t realize was the complete isolation the Turzex would face every single day as a result of this. It’s not my fault though as I was killed dozens of times swimming in the life juices of planet Crion. I was in a sense bullied for the first few thousand years. I was also very slow and an easy target for creatures that were covered in spikes. My only food was the scraps left over by bigger creatures after a hasty kill. All I could think was, “I should’ve just stuck to plants.” But that all came to an end when I got my land legs and became a land creature.