"Greebles are the parts that "look cool, but don't actually do anything". There's an entire discipline here composed of special effects artists and asset designers working to hide the plywood spaceships and simple game world polygons beneath an encrusted surface texture." And this is the trick to make the little bits look like part of a whole. Lovely talk from Mike at UXWeek.

Thayer uploaded her creature directly to Youtube from Spore Creature Creator. *That*'s the kind of integration I'm talking about. How hard can it be?