The Spore Creature Creator has been released. Pretty. Me Want. However, the demo requires admin rights to install on my Mac, instead of simply allowing me to drop it on the Applications folder.
I’m very suspicious of EA’s track record - specifically, I smell robots. I’m not installing it.
Update: Yes, it’s got robots. It seems that the Mac version is a port of the Windows version using Cider, so the admin rights might also be to install the relevant libraries, but there’s definitely home-phoning DRM in there.