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Slide 12 of Caryl Shaw's presentation "Building Community Around Pollinated Content in Spore" at the 2006 GDC Presentation

The slide notes state:


 * Maxis has a history of releasing tools to their users – often pre-ship.   After users create content, they can share it either on a fansite or via the official Maxis sites.

And the slide says they planned on inserting a creature editor image. So this seems likely that they will, or at least they had previously planned to release the creature editor early.