It’s been a while since we added a term to the Zen Lexicon (see sidebar). However, with the recent release of Spore’s Creature Creator, it seems only right to add a term by Jeff Freeman (who once wrote insightful game design posts before he started posting about random japanese social networking stuff).

The term is ‘Time to Cock’, which is, of course shorthand for the central problem making games (or, well, anything) that centers on player-created content. Congrats, Jeff, on being immortalized in the urban dictionary.

That being said, if you haven’t played with the Spore Creature Creator yet, why the hell not?