Thanks to sqlrob over at Livejournal, I have the Spore Creature Creator demo running on my non-Leopard system! With some tweaking to two files, the demo can be run on Macs using OS X 10.4.11, maybe even others if you have all the other requirements. First you do this, and then you do this. Probably won’t work when the full game comes out, but at least I can goof around and waste time with the demo … which is exactly what I have been doing.

Also, if like me you hate things running fullscreen, here are the commands to toggle between windowed-mode and fullscreen:

Command + Return: Toggles the game between windowed and fullscreen modes.
Command + Tab: Minimizes the game when in fullscreen mode.

And, here’s a video of my first creature creation!