I Made Spore 2 Because EA Didn't 

I don't understand why they don't just sell the IP at this point it clearly still has a passionate fanbase. Sell it or actually make the sequel. A modern spore would be dope.

Multiplayer Spore really is the ultimate childhood dream come true

I really wanted Spore's space stage to be multiplayer. Imagine growing your own empire and going to war or making alliances with different players

Can't believe it went from simple video on recreating SPORE's creature creator to the semi fully fledged game with it's own merch etc! h what a great adventure it was (and still is) following the progress of this project!

27:21 you should make the damage numbers different colours that way it’s easier to know when you take or when you deal damage

I’m a senior software engineer and I was quite impressed with the code you put out. And you did all that without any professional experience whilst finishing University? Amazing

the fact you saw this project through and went so far with it is absolutely astonishing

It's an honor to be an official pattern artist!! Here's to making this game more and more fun!

It would be amazing if you added a keyframe animator to the game, so players with experience can animate their own animations for their creatures, attacks, walking, etc, it would make the game even better than it already is.

The only thing that I feel is missing is the whole evolutionary aspect. A big part of the appeal of original spore was seeing your creautre grow and becoming powerful. But creature seems like a fantastic game and I think many in the spore community appreciate it!

At the end, where the community's creatures are scrolling, it makes me truly happy to see more then one Wilosaur. I probably still have it somewhere, but I remember before SPORE was released I had read about it in my brother's gamer magazine. After a point, my brother let me keep it because I was so obsessed with going back to those pages. LOL. But I was disappointed as hell that the Wilosaur, the mascot, never appeared in the finished product. SPORE was both one of the best things ever created and so obviously cut back on content... I love it dearly, even though it's always broken my heart a little bit. It makes me truly happy every time I see the community alive and thriving and improving on what SPORE was supposed to be. But this project of your's? A whole new game? It makes me happier then anything else. You should be extremely proud of what you've made here. It's wonderful!

I really love how some of your maps need specific parts to navigate them better. This metroidvania-esque approach seems so fitting for a Spore game.

You've just earned not only a sub, but also the heart of a young child that only wanted Spore 2 as its lifetime gift and nothing more from EA. Thank you. Keep up the amazing work!

I thought this was gonna be one of those 'thought experiment' type videos where they talk about IF they made it, what they'd do. But no, you legit coded and modeled and created and animated all of this pretty much entirely by yourself.. whilst also studying to graduate! just wow. Seriously I couldn't do this even without the added stress of irl stuff getting in the way lol you should be so proud of what you created!!!

I’m glad EA isn’t making spore 2 because they would just fill it with transactions and maybe a few new parts.

11/10 intro, that was perfect - It was really insightful seeing the entire process that's gone into this. Thank you for making this, and well done on all of the well-earned success! 💕I hope Creature Creator continues to thrive, especially with it being open-source, I'm excited to see what the community does with it.

I love this whole thing, from recreating Spore, to the fact that you took things into your own hands to create the game you always wanted...I'm hoping to try and do the same with something akin to For Honor, so I'm happy to see this!

I bought this as soon as it came out on Steam, as it was finally another Spore like game. Had no damn idea it was made by a fellow South African. Mad respect man! Can't wait for the other 2 "spin-off" titles to come out as well :)

RU-vid recommended me this video and it instantly caught my eye. Finished it thinking I was watching some huge youtuber I didn't know. Then I saw you got 11k subs, you are so talented you need more. Also, I love spore and will surely play this tonight.

OH MY GOSH!!!! MY DUDE THAT'S WHOPPING AWESOME WORK!!!! sorry about caps, but oh my lord. You did such a huge work, just fascinating, stunning. Can't wait to play it with my friend. Huge thanks to you Daniel ❤

Spore is honestly one of the best games I've ever played. I still sometimes play this game and love to use my creativity when playing, Thank you for this project.

WOW, that is a staggering amount of work for an open source multiplayer game/engine! Huge props for sticking with it after so much time spent and all the inevitable setbacks!!

Feels like the game could've capitalized more on the survival and evolving aspect of the creature stage in Spore. Kinda bummed the game went in more of a minigames/Co-op direction. Would've loved to see a true Spore-esque creature stage. Also kinda weird seeing human built structures and cars in a game about evolution and creatures. I also looked at the Battle Sim and Evolution Sim but non of them seem to be anything like the Spore creature stage. Still love the game though ever since I bought it back in August 2022.

I can’t believe you only have around 10k subscribers. The editing is phenomenal!

Idea: A game mode that plays just like Spore's Creature stage with nests, migration, digging up parts, deciding between diplomacy and violence, but it's entirely with other players and it maybe plays out like a PUBG game except instead of starting from the sky everyone starts from the water after growing legs. Whoever evolves sapience first wins, or something like that. One tricky quagmire would be figuring out how the nests would work while the players aren't there. Maybe the player can set them on three different modes before leaving: Peaceful, Neutral, and Aggressive. Peaceful would be singing and dancing regardless, Neutral would be attacking if attacked or singing and dancing if sung and danced to, and Aggressive would be always attacking first. I could picture there being an implicit meta game to the game mode where diplomatic players would benefit by making creatures that the other players find funny. Matches could go a number of ways, probably being mostly just violence only considering it's probably mostly kids playing, but nests could team up on an overly aggressive nest that's a mutual enemy. Every small decision could have ripples. Maybe each player starts out with very few ways to communicate but as their brain develops they're allowed the ability to transmit more complex messages to one another? It'd be interesting to see the psychology of a player who's somehow conquered the meta and wins more often than most people. Are they antisocial or are they empathic? Also, surely a larger body would require more fuel to operate. Players would need to adapt accordingly to their environment, taking on only the mutations that they absolutely need and discarding everything that could waste energy and make the player need to consume more food. In order to compete with carnivorous players there might have to be adaptations for herbivores like flight or tree climbing in order to reach bountiful food sources at the tops of trees. Carnivores would be very high risk high reward depending on how far they are from other nests and how large the creatures are in their area. They may have to downsize and evolve some means to catch and consume insects, like a frog tongue or a poison cloud that brings bugs to the ground. I see this as a very useful tool for teaching people some semblance of how nature works, why we are the way that we are. Spore set out to do that, to mixed results. In real life things don't get binarily more good on an all encompassing scale the way that numbers increasing does in games. It's a very intuitive way to explain to children that all animals on Earth look the way they do because they stumbled into a biological niche. Imagine... it's like a Fortnite game except it depicts a surprisingly realistic expression of how evolution works, how culture evolved with some remnants of tribes being remaindered and others disappearing into the annals of completely undocumented history like a tree that fell in the woods with nobody there to hear it. Get existential.

Legit the most underrated developer, RU-vidr, spore enthusiast and absolute madlad! I was so lucky to have got a chance to try this game in the early stage

Man this dev log was so impressive it completely shattered any of my game dev confidence after I realized I can't do 99% of the things in the video :D Amazingly well-done, good sir!

Awesome video! I love how much work you put into it, showing the creation process of your game. And the video editing was great too! Seeing stuff like that also motivates me to put even more work into my own game. Really excited to see what other things you'll do with the "Creature franchise".

Congratulations on graduating with honors! I know that's no easy feat, I'm glad all your hard work paid off.

That's cool but why not make the original vision of Spore? Where it was more procedural animation style creatures and more realistic evolution before it was dumbed down. THAT's the game I'm still hoping to see one day

I want so like the original spore when your creature does not have arms it could pick up items with it's mouth, for example if you would play in the tribal stage without arms your tribe members would just use their mouth to grab instruments

You know whatd make a killer Spore reboot? Launch the game on PC, Switch, PS5 and Series X/S on the same day with crossplay multiplayer. Charge $50 for the base game, and have a $60 Deluxe Edition that comes with a selection of body parts from the game, similar to the board game Cooties. You can also sell extra of these sets for $15 a pop, and have different themed sets and, thus, different deluxe editions. And to give more incentive to build a Spore creature irl, you can take a picture of your newly-built creation, import the image into the game, and play it out.

I don't know if you know but there is an other guy working on a new version of spore called elysian eclipse, he mostly focussed on the aquatic stage so far u2 together already have close to 2 stages.

good video and good game im the guy that translated the game to turkish, hi :)

1:07 what’s really funny to me is I basically worked backwards in the timeline of spore. I was introduced to the series with Darkspore, enjoyed it, got Spore Hero, enjoyed that, then got the main Spore game and loved that.

i already have this game bought from like a year or so and didn't even know anything about your channel nor you, happy to see your video about the development

This is sick. I do wanna mention though that this is just not an open world. It's an interconnected world but it's not open

"I made spore 2" *proceeds to make a game that has nothing to do with spore at all besides a creature maker*

Thanks for this video ^^ There is a little studio (Seven Ducks Studios) who work on a "Spore game "called Elysian Eclipse. They are still in early development phase but it's looking good !

I do hope over time as the game progresses, that you make it more like spore but looks great so far. Cant imagine how hard a custom creator is

Ok I feel like I'm the only one that's gonna say it because so many comments are saying 11/10. Good work, you did well alone and it's not an easy thing to do what you've made. Buttttt, it's not really a "Spore 2" it's a mini game filled multiplayer game and frankly, it looks, very basic imo. I know spore is too, but claiming a game like this, in 2024 is even similar to spore the multistage evolution and creature creator feels more like a cop out to me for clicks :/ the only similarity is the creature creator looking exactly like spores creature stage only. Again, well done, but the game just doesn't look good to me. Sorry :/ kinda like Dani's Crab Game if I'm forced to compare it to something in terms of visuals and design. And he's already got merch for it? Where's the freedom of spores creativity when you market out specific creature designs?

I loved the video. It was super cool to see your thoughts and pain in the making of CC!

Fellow Capetonian here, Well done on Uni! Also Amazing project and video!

creature evosim sounds really interesting, i’ve had an idea for a spore-like game for ages where you would collect exp for playing and whatever skills you used more you would sort of naturally develop the parts, and whatever skills you use less the parts would atrophy and then become vestigial

Thats really inspiring, how u got from fan spore game to your own merch, thats a glow up

This is an amazing project, and so far, the outcome is pretty solid. But there are a few issues that don’t seem to appeal for a creature creation game. The lack of texture on the creatures. It makes every one look very mat and generic despite their diverse bodies and ideas. Making more shiny textures, slimy ones, furry or any texture that would spread unevenly across the creature’s body would make them feel much more alive. The patterns as swell, feel and are too geometrical to be a live being’s. Maybe scales, spots, zebra stripes that are not copy pasted patterns could do the trick and feel much more lively :) The maps. Maybe add more diverse tree models to them? The trees look like they have been copy pasted throughout the entire map (which they probably have been) and makes the game much less immersive, making it feel low quality. Adding a few more models of a tree (example: instead of one pine tree model make it three so that the copy pasting is much less obvious), sizing up and down or even just rotating the trees would make it less robotic. The lack of flora diversity. This game has interesting concepts and ideas for maps, but when they are revealed to you, they might seem… a bit empty. Especially the caves and tunnels. That is only because of the lack of details: a huge chunk of glowing rock sprouting out of nowhere with no sign of size diversity anywhere in the tunnels make it seem empty. Adding smaller pieces before the big crystal opening would hint the beginning of a new biome and build up intrigue before the final reveal. Little pieces of moss and fungi across the walls would also be a very nice touch. (I unfortunately do not know if that amount of detail is possible. Perhaps too much detail will slow down game play and favor lag…) It’s a shame that the effort in coding and rendering creatures feels less professional because of rather easy to fix design issues. Don’t get me wrong, it is much easier said than done and I could never get as far as you did. I am an artist, not a game creator. I draw and create landscapes, my opinion and critique is solely based on that experience =v= Adding more organic (and a bit less obvious copy pasting) textures to creatures and maps would make the game even better in my opinion! :D Otherwise keep up the amazing work, I’m sure that it will only get better and better as time goes by :]

AMAZING! I'll get to play it right away! Now we only need an isolated for every other stage in Spore! Brilliant!

I have never played Spore nor Creature Creator, but I found the "story of how I did it" very compelling and interesting to watch. Very well done video - I guess one can see the amount of work and time that went into this video.

There's so much I can appreciate from this video! I've played the game for myself on android so far, and it's really fun. Tho, I did see some creative limits for those who want to put in more detail while being stopped by complexity and money. Overall, I can't wait to see what's in-store for the future of this game! Plus amazing video btw 11/10! :>

Cant wait for this bro!

Your choice of music made me feel like I was being shown a corporate presentation lol, I edit videos like that for a living so as soon as I heard ‘Business Corporate Fun Lively #4’ I started shrivelling, there’s a lot more than just that business meeting crap on adobe stock, other than that great video.

watching the continued series and seeing how far its come is so sick! Calling this a bunch of work from start to the current point must be and understatement but great job man !!

The amount of love and time invested here is just unbelievable. Incredible work!

My expectations are not met, still congrats on making the DLC "Space Adventure" 2.0-ish with multiplayer added. It will still be fun to play.

I can't but admire people like you - for me, everything here looks like real-life magic. I understand I wouldn't ever be able to do ANY of these, even under a barrel of a gun Good luck with everything

I love that you included Ctop and simply Chris I watch them all the time

Spore was probably my first lesson as a gamer to not get hyped about games before you actually get to see what they're like.

Need me a real life dance tutorial for the in-game dance ability

Die video is baie goed bymekaar gesit, ekt die vreeslik geniet. Ek respekteer die aanhouvermoe verskriklik baie, jy gaan dit nog baie ver maak in die lewe! 🔥

Congratz on your Honors my guy. Really love the game it gives this sandbox/live sim feel to it where it's up to how the player wants to interact with the world and how they want to play

Well this is more like Spore Hero 2. This game seems to have a smaller storyline involving getting vengeance on the humans. Spore Hero had a smaller storyline about saving a planet from a malevolent counterpart of yours. Spore 2 is Elysian Eclipse because it seems to go through all the stages of the Spore game and then some. Though Creature Creator will likely have a lot of spin-off games based on itself.

Yeeeees!

Bro Good job and Congratulations ❤

Just found this, Really love it from start to end, 8 month to create this, it's increadible, Really good job and I hope future smile for people like you who create game cause they like it and not for money only.

This was an amazing and extremely impressive video. I'm in awe of what you've done in such a short time. I expected the general "I took X weeks and built this rough clone in a new engine of game Y" type video, but boy, did you exceed that by an infinite amount 😅 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

Hopefully this game will get more updates

Major props! This is so cool and I'm really happy that you translated it to so many different languages!

At the end of the video you said "or at least my pain entertaining", but except for those error reportings, there were no other pain parts in this video. I hope we can see more pain in the next video. Thanks!

personally to me, the art style of this just is not spore-ish, sure the concept kinda but besides that not really and even then this is just the creature stage, good job but would not call this spore 2 in all honesty

Oo hyped now!

I'm so excited about this! I've always been very upset Spore didn't get a sequel or remake. You're making my dreams come true ❤

Oh my god, Im very bad in english, but i watched the whole video... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK ❤ Spore is literally my fav game ever... im so happy to see your project, seems so good! I'll try it right now !!!

Well, poor Jerry :c Good game thou

you should add a gungame type minigame. everyone starts as lvl 1 scrubs, you need to collect points to unlock more limbs/weapons/defense etc as your lvl goes up you can get point via map based goals or eating other players. if you are eaten you go down a lvl, if you eat and get enough points you go up.

I was not expecting you to put in this many features!! so cool!

As a dude trying to make a game myself... man this is a ride to watch. I'm happy to see just how much work you put into it, but also how level headed you are with your own game. I've seen just a few too many who think that just because the put a lot of time into their work that it is the best thing ever. (That said you did wonders with your game don't ever think you hadn't) To see you're seeing how you could do things better, learning from those mistakes, and aiming just a bit higher? I wish you the world of luck.

Elysian Eclipse is doing a similar thing

Is it for mobile?

As a 3D modeler the 100,000 triangles took me by surprise lol

That was very interesting. You clearly put a massive amount of work into this!

i will make a creature in creature creature every 20 likes this comment gets.

Rather pretentious to claim its the spiritual successor to spore when your version completely misses that the whole point of the game and all its hype was not creature phase, but raising and evolving a creature from cell to space god. That said, pretty damn impressive to do all this as one person.

Dude good job the end project looooooks sooooo good! I am excited to download this and hope I can get my friends to buy it as well.

This looks fantastic! Thank you! I loved Spore growing up and wanted a sequel! I wanna play this!

Bro Spore had 5+ years to be done For the time that this game was made is really good

I thought furrys were the sequel to spore..

That was the longest and most interesting ad for a game I have ever seen. Thank you!

I don't know why I have not heard of your work sooner, but I thank the YT algorithm for being here today. I am certainly buying and supporting your work ASAP, as I wshed to do with Spore... I wish you the best luck possible!

Filthy Frank time to stop meme in 2024 is crazy

While this is definitely another creature creator, and the addition of multiplayer is something the original didn't have, calling in Spore 2 is a bit inaccurate. It's really not a similar game at all besides the creature editing.

I was one of the people that helped make some of the blender parts designs, happy to help make some new designs if needed. :) Should keep on going on this project, would make it a well sold product, with some more polish it wil get there. I really do wish a spore 2 was a thing. I'm sure the spore commuinty can make something way better than what EA could make with more passion put into it and details in its gameplay other than making them short mini games , creature stage was the only thing that was enjoyable for me compared to the other stages.

Bro I downloaded this today and randomly found this video, I didn't know you made it XD

This is "spore meets goat simulator", not "spore 2".

This sukcs the game is terrible and the characters looks like dough

It's funny that you use Minecraft as an example of "you can't add multiplayer later" because that's exactly what Minecraft did. Early versions of the game were truly singleplayer, and even once multiplayer was added, there was a long period of time where singleplayer and multiplayer used separate codebases- Multiplayer would only run on a dedicated server, and you couldn't convert a singleplayer world to multiplayer. Now, of course, it uses the model you mentioned, where the server software is integrated into the game, and singleplayer is just single-session multiplayer. Interestingly, Stardew Valley is *also* a game that was originally designed to be purely singleplayer, and only added multiplayer in a later update. Though of course you're right that multiplayer is often baked in right from the start due to the tightly-woven and complex nature of network code.

Heard that accent from a mile away - love to see a saffer in game dev. You got my sub, keep it up!

Amazing work my Guy! Love the game! I'll definitely get the other games as well!

Yes Daniel! So much good stuff here. Loved seeing the problem/solution process at each stage from the past 3 years. The walking animation/IK stuff was really cool and very well explained. Interesting to see the different design decisions for the maps/obstacles/quests/minigames too. Excellent work, can't wait to see more :) 21:10 Academic legend :D

28:17 Though I wish there was an option play with your current build that you've spent hours to build rather than forced to create new one each time. It negatively affects the point of customizing your creature if you can't even use it in minigames.

I dont usually comment on videos but this video sparked some shit inside me. Spore was my favorite childhood game and thank you so much for making a spore 2. One of the main reasons I enjoyed spore so much was the idea of being able to evolve and become a stronger creature. I think that adding a mmo type aspect to this game and adding more complex pvp would make this game very interesting. The complexities of completely being able to manipulate your character however you want allows for a large variety of play styles and for the player to use their creativity to win. Eventually you could introduce weapons as well that are better equipped for certain builds that have counters to each other. For example if you are big you have more health, more strength, and slower, and if you are a smaller creature you are faster, less health, less strength, but long range attacks are more lethal. I know it is a lot to ask for but I genuinely think this type of game would make for a great game and I wanted to spew some possible ideas to make it even better.