Darwin’s birthday is coming up – February 2nd to be exact!  To celebrate this event, Spore is kicking off the Darwin Day Challenge, a contest in which players can create any creations or adventures related to evolution and his contributions to science!  I was a bit worried about this because the topic of evolution sturs up trouble with those who believe in creationism.  Luckily MaxisCactus has put her foot down and warned those to stick with creation-discussion only.

Note: This is not a spot for a verbal debate on evolution vs creationism. Please read: this and this before posting anything in that vein.

Challenge Details

Darwin’s birthday is coming soon, Feb 2nd. To celebrate, create any creation or adventure that relates to his contributions to science. On Darwin Day, the winning creation(s) will be featured.

Resources:

Example creations:


What will the challenge winner(s) get?

A chance to be featured on Spore.com! We’re going to choose a few of the top voted creations to share the glory here.

We’ll post our favorite submissions here, then YOU get to vote for which one is your top pick! The winner(s) may be featured if they meet our criteria for featured creations

  • Creation must not have any parent authored by a different creator
  • Creation must not have any offensive creation in its lineage (any parent or child creations)
  • Creation must not have any links or references to other sites in the submission’s tags, name, or description

Submissions that do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for the poll

Rules:

  • Your creation must be related to Darwin’s contributions. If the connection is unclear from the PNG, please include how the creation relates in the description
  • Your creation may be created in any editor including the adventure editor. It may also be in the form of a Sporecast.
  • To submit a creation, just publish and tag it with: mcdarwinchallenge
  • You can submit as many creations as you’d like
  • All submissions must be in by 11:00am PDT Jan 25, 2010
  • Optional: Post screenshots or YouTube movies of your creation on the forum