Many of the popular user-generated content sites have faced similar challenges in trying to control obscene material.
These games and sites often allow people to create and host their own content in addition to creating cartoon personas, called avatars, for themselves. Frogger, anyone? Old-school gamers revel in nostalgiaįor EA, the developer of "Spore," it's the downside to tapping into the booming user-generated content arena, which has made sites like YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and Second Life so popular.E3 summit brings more sequels, upgrades.
Smarter video games keep players guessing. These naughty - some would say obscene - creations have spawned an Internet meme nicknamed "Sporn," short for "Spore" porn. Watch Bradshaw demonstrate the "Creature Creator" and "Spore" » Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged "phallic fornication machine," for starters. Within 24 hours of the Creature Creator's release, gamers had gone creature-crazy, designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a database and shown on a YouTube channel for the public to see.īut scrolling through the database - past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig - revealed something many users didn't expect. The game, a joint venture from "Sims" creator Will Wright and Electronic Arts, allows users to create a unique creature and then control its evolution from a single cell into a complex cultural civilization. It started when the makers of "Spore" released a Creature Creator program that allowed users to develop their own characters to drum up hype before the game's scheduled release in September. But some took it upon themselves to create something entirely different: a new kind of Internet porn.
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