About
Spore is a simulation videogame made by Maxis for PC and Mac. In it, the player controls a cell which will evolve into a sapient species that will start to build cities and spaceships, eventually becoming a vast empire in the galaxy.
Story
Spore started as a trial version called “Spore Creature Creator” in which the player could make their own creatures and publish them to the gallery, called the Sporepedia. Eventually, it evolved into a game of it’s own called simply Spore, in which the player could make their own creatures, vehicles, and buildings.
Expansion packs
The game spawned three expansion packs; Creepy and Cute, Bot Parts, and Galactic Adventures. Creepy and Cute added parts and paints for creatures, meanwhile Galactic Adventures adds the possibility to make adventure planets and captains. Bot Parts added robotic limbs and accessories (I.E. robot arms and limbs or metal plating) and was only available via a code under Dr. Pepper bottlecaps or at participating Taco Bell restaurants with any order of a large drink.
Related games
Spore Creatures
Spore Creatures is an spin-off of Spore, a worm-like creature named Oogie is the main character. Another Oogie, Little Oogie, disappears and Oogie starts a search for him. Unlike Spore, any possible swear will cause the entire name to be censored (for example, naming a creature AlloSauruS will get it’s name censored). Due to that, it has recieved negative reviews.
Spore Origin
Spore Origin is a mobile version of the cell stage, in which a cell that the player can evolve and travel around a tide pool. The gameplay could be considered similar to flOw.
Spore Hero
Spore Hero is a Wii spin-off that revolves around a mouthless being that evolves out of an egg, trying to beat an evil creature causing red meteors to corrupt the creatures of the planet. The creature also helps other beings during his travel in minigames such as dancing, and editing beasts.
Spore Hero Arena
Spore Hero Arena is a DS spin-off of Spore Hero. The player builds a creature and explores the homeland meanwhile playing minigames such as bodyguarding or arenas. The game has been considered similar to Super Smash Brothers.
Darkspore
Darkspore is a RPG spin-off in which the player must protect the universe from the Darkspore, an army of corrupted creatures and races. The game contains a Hero Builder which could be compared to the make-your-own character builder from RPGs.
Sporn (NSFW)
Sporn is a fan-coined term for pornographic creatures. Normally, Sporn is deleted and the user gets banned. Sporn had an achievement called Bad Baby if the player got their Sporn deleted, but the achievement was taken out of the game as to not fill the Sporepedia with porn. It’s unknown how Sporn started, but it was most likely a Rule 34 takeover. Most of the Sporn creatures have enlarged breasts and anuses or genitals.
The Grox
The Grox are cyborg-creatures which live near the center of the galaxy. They have been considered icons of the game and many people have hacked to get the unaccessible parts the Grox have.
Grox Anthem
The Grox Anthem is an unusual song that can be heard by allies of the Grox. It is popular through the fandom due to the voices, which are different to the regular Grox voice, meaning they could possibly be enslaved creatures.
Sporepedia
The Sporepedia is a page in the Spore web page containing all the player-made content. It is normally filled with strange creatures or things from fandoms. Most of them depict videogames and shows, but there have been cases of meme creatures.
35min 2005 Demonstartion
A 35min demonstration was shown at GDCe in 2005. The reléase caused anger in the fandom due to highly different content, such as no blood or mating.
Creatures
Many creatures shown have become favorites by the fanbase, and have been attemped to recreate, normally without success. Most of the names were fan-made. The most known ones are Willosaur, a tripod creature with a hand in it’s tail and Splodey, a large spider.
Most Pirated Game of All Time
Due to the immense amount of DRM that is linked to Spore, the game quickly became the most pirated game of all time. This is due to the effect that DRM has on games as well as if a game is popular or not. DRM is typically used to stop piracy of video games, but it often has the opposite effect. The game was pirated more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, making it the most pirated game of all time.
Parkaboy
Parkaboy is one of the most known Spore users, who has got the most downloaded conten (sometimes stolen). He won a travel to Maxis office and see GA before release, and was considered the Top Spore User.
Clark and Stanley
Clark and Stanley are two almost identical creatures featerud on adventures. The adventures consist of joining them, but they get killed. For example, they go to the beach and put bait to atract dolphins, but are eaten by sharks. He has been compared to South Park characther Kenny due to the recurring death theme.
Impact
Spore has been hacked many times, and searching spore in YouTube will make a lot of creation videos appear.