I think there’s a game that’s called Thrive, inspired off of spore but more biologically correct (still not completely cause, well, it’s a game) it’s not done but I heard it’s still fun to play
i dont think any other game has ever reached the level of pure uniqueness that spore had. im so sad that it seems to have faded into the background, but every now and again people seem to find interest in it.
It’s all because of ea that spore was discontinued... It could still be worked on if ea didn’t buy out maxis and abandon it. I bet they have some strict copyright too so that no other game can come close to spore
It's funny how you guys bring space sims as an example of modern successors of Spore ideas, while this game wasn't so special only because of it's Space Stage (it's actually less favourite stage for many players, as the author mentioned in his second video). Or the games, that represent another singular stage of Spore. Don't you realize, that the ability to create and shape your own, completely unique creature and it's civilization, is what makes this game so replayable? Not the gameplay of single stage, which may be simple by it's own, or the space politic games. I enjoyed so much designing the evolution of dragons, antlions (similar to Half-Life 2 creatures) and some peculiar aliens with 2 pairs of legs and arms, from primitive land creatures to modern civilizations, customizing their bodies, buildings and vehicles. I led one race to space, then created another save to start over, many times. This is special experience, which none of cited games can provide.
@TheCoffeybeans Me, Galactic Adventures was great, the possibilities to create your own little adventures and minigames, it has something very nostalgic now. It also basically was my first introduction into game design.
@cristhianmlr Its ok not to like spore, although I get the feeling that you don't hate the game itself but the fact that your friends kept pushing you to play it despite you not really finding the game enjoyable.
What it lacks in scientific accuracy it more than makes up for in replay value. Everyone always mentions the editors (creature, vehicle building etc..) but the archetype system is one of the most brilliant design choices to the game to the point that any hypothetical sequel or spiritual successor should include. It guarantees at the very least someone would attempt 10 full playthroughs from start to finish. Wanna kill everything be a warrior want to discover be a scientist, want to help the galaxy be a knight, want to bring about peace be a bard. Its freaking brilliant and I wish more people talked about it. Its a class system where you choose your character class by actively playing the game instead of just choosing it from the beginning. Ive never seen anything like it before or since. Its what gives me a reason to come back to one of my favorite games of all time.
Unironically, Walking with Dinosaurs and Spore were the two things that drove me to be more interested in biology I'm a software dev now, but I still really like learning about animals and speculative evolution I really wasn't expecting a video on Spore, considering how "intelligent design"-y it gets
@Mary Y The closest I can think of is the indie project Thrive Unfortunately, due to the nature of the development team not working on the game full time (since it's a hobby project), its development isn't the fastest It currently only has the cell stage, but it's much more "scientific" (you manage chemical compounds to survive, to produce toxins etc)
Hey, I know it's a longshot, but you don't happen to know a program/game that let's you design creatures like this, but less cartoons? I would spend a lot of money for a hame/program that focused on Worldbuilding, where you can create your own star system, world, then create creatures and evolve them over time as the continents move and weather changes. Worldbuilfing is getting popular, but not many are expert artist, and the number crunching on some of it is agonizing.
If you like Spore then I recommend keeping an eye on “Adapt”. It’s a spore-like indie game with more in depth features based on realistic speculative evolution.
There is a newer science based sporelike game called thrive. Currently the people working on it are developing the cellular part of the game, what's playable is pretty good!
@Brave Knight it still in early acess but is well made and already has a lot of content, great graphics, great voice acting, great soundtrack, it gives much hope.
Seeing their interpretation of tribal and civilization stages would be quite entertaining. They have made similar videos before. They won't even have to show pictures. They can just show words.
I LOOOOOOOVE SPORE!!!! I have played it so many times and it is so sad there isn't a new version. The thing that comes closest is Niche and even that only focuses on one body type. Faunasphere was good too but it got cut and only had the animals fight pollution. WE NEED ANOTHER SPORE
I remember an earlier build of Spore being advertised and previewed where you did take on being a fish, instead of skipping from cell to land animal. The way EA handled this game was an absolute travesty and was the last time I ever pre-ordered a game
This is great, I recently got spore back on steam and its the only game I want to play. I love to make weird creepy creatures with the Cute and creepy DLC and its just a great game. I wish that EA didn't abandon spore.
@RogueOwlProductions It takes them so much longer than it should to just agree on what color to make the text that players might as well collaborate and release a video game publicly. This is why Kickstarter exists. A true successor to what Spore was supposed to be. We need more mushrooms! Don't let their lies and money stand in the way of your creative vision! You are the future and the time is now. You can make a mushroom filled world!
@Dakota Shroom She wasn't being a defeatist about learning, she was simply saying that she was too young to have a sense of biology at her immediate disposal when playing Spore at 7 years old.
Thrive is a game with a similar concept as Spore. It takes a more reasonable route. You play as a cell and you have to collect colors with really long names. There are videos of people playing it.
No no no, don't have it be realistic, just have it be fun above all else. Let the player turn green sausages with fins into dinosaurs in a single generation and breakdance to befriend flying pears, just make the gameplay more engaging than a weird MMORPG thing that then devolves into endless repetition in space stage. I've always found Spore's final presentation to be far more charming, it just suffered greatly in gameplay department. I still find it fun, but it could have been more if they cut down the scale of the whole thing and released certain stages separately (Cell+Creature, Tribe+Civilization and finally Space, grouped according to gameplay type). As it is, the game tries being everything.
I'm working on one myself. It will be realistic but will not be linear like Spore and aims to teach ecology and natural selection. There will be a deep story mode as well.
The Galactic Adventures expansion pack also got me interested in game design as it gave you the possibility to create your own levels and little adventures.
Spore is one of the most nostalgic games for me, and I’d love to see you make a second video on this covering the Tribal, Civilisation and Space stages.
Man seeing this vid brought a tear to my eye tbh. I remember when spore first came out and me and my dad were in the line at GameStop to get it! Can’t believe I was 7 when it came out. Even tho the original vision of spore never came to be, the game we got still instilled a love/passion to evolution, wildlife and speculative evolution in me :,)
I love this. This approach of focusing on real-world biology is the one I use when making my own spore creatures. I even go as far as creating entire biospheres for my planets (6 herbivores, 3 carnivores/omnivores) so I can make a scientifically accurate version of my planet in space stage.
You should do a video on the novels "Fragment" and "Pandemonium", now that I think about it, they've got some cool speculative creatures in them (especially if you think mantis shrimp aren't deadly ENOUGH already). I thought of that because I remember using the spore creature creator to replicate one of the creatures from the novel, just to see if I could, because the creators in Spore are still some of the best ever made.
I Love this series of scientifically studying fictional biology. If I may suggest an idea, I was thinking that No Man’s Sky has some interesting biological diversity, it may not be handcrafted like subnautica, but it still may make for an interesting study.
Spore is still awesome. I wish it would be possible to put in more diversity within species or technologies to make it more colourful. Or a teck-tree and crafting-systems.
The motto of Spore is "How will you create the universe?" and I have been part of it for a long time. I think the game is awesome, and about the last thing I expected to end up on this channel. Thanks, CA!
I would pay good money to watch you do a full playthrough of this game, and explore more possibilities and new creatures, i was genuinely super invested in the story or curiousus and what would happen to them.
Enjoyed this game years ago. Had lots of fun playing it, never beat it. Sadly I have lost so many creatures that I made, some good, some bad. I liked building Starships as well. I made one that looked like a whale, that one actually I think is still in the online files.
There are a few games that might have the potential to become worthy successors of Spore: I think Elysian Eclipse, Adapt and The Sappling might be the ones. Thrive is also interesting.
I love this game. When it first came out, I couldn't stop playing. Imagine my shock when I found out that many people dislike it! I remember one time when I decided to remove my creature's first set of hands and replace them with mouths, turning the arms into necks
Haha this is awesomely nostalgic, it's crazy how this game still lives! Also there's a game called Thrive that is currently in kind of an early development and available to play, I think you may be interested in that too!
19:03 You might be interested in the game "Thrive". While it's still really early in development and not expected to be completed for a long long time, it seems like an interesting take on a more scientifically-accurate Spore and definitely one to keep an eye on IMO.
Spore is fantastic! A game of my childhood that I still play today! I really enjoyed seeing the footage of real life examples of what you were evolving, seeing those microorganisms was fascinating and I never fail to learn something new, watching your content! I really hope for a new Spore some day!
Yes, I'm nearing the end of the game for the first time now. I had wanted the game for years and got a physical copy, but I found out about the issues the physical copies can have to prevent piracy, so I bought off steam, only to find out I can't even login due to EA doing stuff lmfao But yeah I've always loved it and always thought I would only like the creature stage. But surprisingly I actually really like all the stages. I wish a sequel could be made or a reimagined game by someone else.
To this day, Spore is still one of my absolute favorites, right along side Half-Life. To this day it is still so different and unique, and is what got me interested in biology and zoology.
Loved the video! Man you make me so nostalgic hahaha. Spore is really one-of-a-kind game. It'd be awesome to see another series like this, with all the amazing 3D graphics possibilities we have nowadays. It could serve as a huge inspiration for creators who focus mainly on speculative evolution/biology. Keep up the great work, I always enjoy watching your vids!
This is the approach I take when I play Spore. What hit me is when you hesitated to remove the fin upon reaching land. Something I do and that I slowly remove over the generations. :) It's quite a fun way to play the early game! Sure I am slow, but it's fun-
YES!!! My favorite game of all time! Thank you so much for making this!!! You have no idea how much this video and this entire channel in general means to me, dude! ;D
From what I heard the way Spore is the way it is was because there's been an internal struggle when the game was created, the original maker of Spore intended the game to be more scientifically accurate while there was a small group of people who wanted the opposite for Spore. So they broke off in 2 groups, the Cutesy group and the Science group and both were required to compromise which ended up with the product we know today. This internal struggle also let to the whole thing why the Aquatic stage and such never became a thing. Not sure about the details of it, but I often wonder what Spore could have become if there weren't a Cutesy group, I am certain I would've loved the game even more.
This was so cool! I’ve seen a lot of Spore videos but never one that tried to be realistic. I’d love to see what you’d do with other Spore creatures if you wanted to do another one of these
I still do ALL of this, I love making random hopefully scientifically accurate animals or if not scientifically accurate reasons they are the way they are!!!!!!! This was so amazing it felt like I had first discovered it again
Love this game. It was my favorite as a kid. It has many flaws and did not live up to its true potential, but Spore still remains one of the most ambitious games ever created
Wow, I love Spore so much! It’s what got me into speculative biology. I still go on every once in a while, or at least I used to pretty recently, and I honestly really want to go back to it at some point soon. Spore’s such a great game, and a few tweaks like biomes and choosing whether the creature is social, solitary, etc. in the creature creator would make the game pretty much perfect for me
Spore was absolutely amazing, I had so much fun with it. I just wish a developer would make a new spore game that's more realistic and scientific. It would sell like crazy.
I loved this video!! I really really love how you made a very unique and interesting playthrough, that does justice to the game, and also brought some interesting ideas of ways to play. I've always tried to make my creatures gradually evolve in a plausible way, but I've never thought of naming a genus, family, and species (like Curiosus Digitatus). I loved that!!!
Spore was so goofy, but it was released right as I was entering the secondary stages of my military training, so I had time to play it. The spacefaring part was enthralling and fun.
Aaaaaah this just brings back the good old memories, I was always trying to build a life from that make sense but I always or most of the time end with a monstrosity.
I love this game! One of my favourite games of all time. And very very nostalgic. I remember getting the game when it came out as a christmas present. Havent really stopped playing it since. Once in a while i still to this day return for yet another playthrough. Ah the nostalgia…
I am an artist. All I want is one day to get into the gaming industry and together with a small team of devs to make a spore like game but more complex and up to modern standard .
This is a go to game for me when I need to relax. I come back to it every couple months. Easy to beat it all within a day so its great when I ain't got shit to do or if its stormy. However each time I do play it I forget that it is Spore, fail to save my game every 20 seconds, loose all my progress, and rage quite. Still love it though.
and now you're my absolute favorite youtuber ever in this biology game XD I mean, you've been doing awesome already, but I'd never thought you'd check out this game and go all deep in what the game set out to do - show speculative evolution and show people the story of life. I really wonder just what else you're gonna cover next, but whatever it is, keep up the amazing work as always. Side note, LOVE your creature's evolution. It may not be as complicated as others, but when it comes to biological evolution in this game, it fits so well ^^ you really should make a spore series like a "Walking with Dinosaurs" documentary - there's so many creatures and so many directions to go - especially with the "Galactic Adventures" pack allowing more complex behaviors to said creatures if you so want. Just a suggestion honestly
I miss playing Spore. Ever since my laptop died i havent been able to play it all, so this really brings back memories of making my own beasties in this brilliant game.
I'd love to see a second video continuing the journey of this species you've created, whether it be biological, sociological or technical, or any combination of the three.
I bought Spore when Circuit City was going out of business. I absolutely loved the game. A lot of content was cut compared to what was shown prior to release, but the game we got was endlessly entertaining.
Spore was among one of the first games I've ever played. I played it when I was around 4 years old, and I still enjoy it quite a lot to this day. It has basically infinite possibilities, and every time you think you've done everything you discover a new kind of feature of the game. In my opinion, Spore was and still is the best game to come out of the hands of EA.
Ohh I miss Spore, this was a trip! I would love to see the rest of the stages covered as well! Another game that sporeish is Niche, it's less focused on stages of evolution and more so on genetics, it's a lot of fun to see what your most common traits inherited in your tribe end up being. I'm not a professional but I find it's genetics system to be (at least decently) actuate. It's not a lot like Spore or anything but it's worth a check out
This is the game that made me love biology. It's always been my most wanted game to get since 2013 and im finally getting it in a week or 2. It's awesome to see this video
spore is a great game, and i really enjoyed watching curious sapiens evolve from tiny little guys to ruling omnivores excited to see a future video about their later development (if one comes out at all)
Please continue this play through if you’ve got the time! :D Not only was it an awesome and unique biology video but a fantastic way to do a spore playthrough as well. I would personally love to see the last three stages be done in your format and I think many others agree! :D +1 subscriber
One of my favorite childhood games. Love your exploration of pop culture creatures This game needs a modern day reboot with better graphics, physics and bring back the sea creature stage and other cut content!
If you ever decide to continue this series into the age of civilization and technology, I highly recommend the Galactic Adventures expansion pack, as the vanilla space stage is somewhat lackluster.
Wonderful video as always. I have a lot of fond memories with Spore. Certainly opened my mind up to speculatively evolution and the creativity that comes with it.
i love how this video explains spore so well, and i wish this game was re-made now in 2022 with more mechanics and a bit of realismo, i dont know if you ever saw the beta of 2005 but that looked really good, and the EA turned the great game it was into this, not saying its bad, but they just cutted out the fun part to make it more cartoon and less violent, that is really sad.
