The Escapist Magazine is holding a minor contest amongst its forum-goers, seeing who can come up with some winning designs with the Spore Creature Creator.  They need to be thematically relevant to the Escapist, however.  The winner will get a unique forum title (no biggie, but it's a unique enough concept to motivate some folks).  Here's what I came up with...

This first rather amorphous character (here's its short YouTube video) is the illustrious Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame:

The creature below, called the Escape-o-saur (YouTube), is built with The Escapist's "e" logo in mind: 

 




And this is from another animated series they're hosting called "Unforgotten Realms."  I don't know what this thing's name is.  But judging from the pic I grabbed it from, let's call it a "Schmoopy Worm."  (Video)




And this last one doesn't really count, but it's inspired by an ad banner that pretty much owns their site 300 days out of the year.  It's the logo for EVE Online (here's its video):

This last one isn't mine.  It's Virgil's, IT Director for the Escapist.  These little gremlins--Virgil's recreation is spot-on--are Yahtzee's nemesis(es) in the Zero Punctuation videos.