The Spore Iceberg EXPLAINED 

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NGL, if EA didn't shove their business into Spore, and rush Maxis and pressure them to make a bunch of time skips and leave a lot of unused features, graphics, and etc, Spore would be much more of a masterpiece than it would be today, and maybe it wouldn't be such an obscure piece of internet. But that's just me.

also fun thing about the dr pepper parts: the mouths had no sing ability, so if you tried to socialize with them, your game would crash

Shame EA's greed and meddling ended up not only killing Spore's chances at sucess, but maxis a a whole

Something that wasn't mentioned in this video: Rogue creatures are supossed to be unique creatures that don't exist anywhere else, but there's a bug that makes the species of a rogue creature spawn as an epic and also as a regular nest creature. This means that if you befriend a rogue creature and then you find an epic version of it, the epic will become your friend aswell. This happened to me in a game I had, where I found nest, rogue and epic versions of the same creature. This is probably caused by cacoon creatures, since they spawn literally random creatures that exist in the sporepedia

One time my brother was able to become friends with an epic, he wasn’t able to recruit it into his pack but it wouldn’t attack him and had a green relationship. What we think happened was he was able to befriend a nest of the same species as the epic so it spawned friendly. Also there is a glitch that I was regularly able to pull off that allows you to stack weapons and mouths in the cell stage. What you had to do was make the front max size and put a max size carnivore on it then you can put a min size spike in the middle of the mouth. You can then replace the spike with another part if you want.

I went on Sporepedia and looked up "human-faced dog" because my curiosity was killing me, and I think I found it. It's uncanny, but it's not nearly as horrific as I thought it would be. He just looks depressed.

I find it crazy that any form of drama on the sporums has been completely eradicated over the course of ten years because some people found better things to do. Looking at old controversies in spore that have almost zero consequences today is like exploring ancient ruins. Now most of the people still creating things in spore are world builders and people who want to express themselves artistically. Which is great cause i can relate more, and I feel like im allowed to enjoy things now.

Adding more about the spore movie, It was supposed to be an mockumentary, showing the evolution of an species, and also, blue sky got shutdown this year by disney, who owned blue sky.

surprised you didnt talk about storyland planets at all, which is a randomly chosen planet given weird and unique landscapes such as pastries, gears, crabs, marshmallows, and more

You skipped the most bananas theory there is that Grox are actually humans after countless generations of evolution in void of space and overuse of cybernetic body parts.

You can tell Spore is a good sandbox because it acknowledges and rewards things that maybe 100 people will ever mess with.

37:26 "it's a decade old... give up hope on a SPORE 2" i mean, we got Psychonauts 2 after 16.5~ years. I have the patience

Things to add for the video that were not mentioned: 1. cube planets- maybe a glitch if the planets load up in a cube, making the planet as sphere in a cube of stone. 2. when you ally the Groxx, all of your allies become hostile immideitly. 3. some say that Spode is the Debug Squid, since it has tentacles and is "the first being in the universe" 4. its pretty generally known but for the sake of the easter egg. galaxy spinning in the menu shows devs. 5. the use of cheats in the space stage gives a badge.

I don't think Darkspore was meant to be a successor to Spore, or considered "Spore 2." Darkspore was meant to be the franchise reaching out to a new playerbase, meant to be an entirely new game itself, taken and viewed separately from Spore itself.

The things I would do for a sequel...

there was this official service when spore was first released where you could have your creature 3D-printed. I think this was when 3D printing was still very much in it's infancy, so the figures were small, expensive, and had a weird texture (from what i remember), but it was pretty novel at the time

15:40 Pause boosting is used in speedruns of the Creature stage. I think it happens when you jump and pause at the same time, so when you unpause you get launched. Great video!

oh hey, fanmade spore discord, i was there, so yeah i was one of the users of the fanmade spore discord, and i saw its downfall.

I really like the Spore User Interface. I call it "Bubble/gradient style" and it feels nostalgic of early/mid 2000s programs and stuff like that. I wish it made a comeback, because I'm tired of all this simplification and "modernization" of things now.

Honestly, if there theoretically was to be a 'Spore 2' I'd hope whoever makes it decides to take it in the more realistic depiction the beta footage was trying to push. I think a game where you literally enact the acts of a creator deity with the added benefit of being a little more gritty would work fantastically. Just to be clear, I don't mean it should be anything similar to Dark Spore, grit not edge. What I mean is that during the Cell, Aquatic and Creature stage the game should attempt to mimic the rules of our world. Adapt to overcome certain challenges your ecosystem and planet give you whilst still having overarching control of how your species evolves. Basically, say you're put in a situation where the ecosystem you currently dwell in is low on prey species, you can either evolve your playstyle to be less aggressive, adapt your creature so they don't have to have so much food, move ecosystems and adapt to a new one or adapt to an omnivorous life style. You still choose the direction you wish to take your creature but obviously there are drawbacks to every choice you make. As for stages like Tribal, Civilization and Space, I'd like it to be more focused on agriculture, religion, traditions, etc. really forge your own society however, like before, your choices are still up to you but they are guided by the world you live in and the risks you take by adapting your creatures the way you do. Spore 2, if there was to ever be one, should take what Spore did and expand it.

I believe this is the human-faced dog mentioned in the Sporum is the one made by CantaloupeFish, who seems to specialise mostly in realistic looking animals. They also made a plushie of the human faced dog. Would it be alright if I try making my own iceberg video of Spore, using your iceberg as a starting point? I feel there's a lot of interesting things in the game that weren't mentioned on here

15:40 I remember seeing someone explain this a bit in the comments, but it didn't do a good job at elaborating, so here's a more in-depth explanation: Pause boosting/creature slinging is a technique typically used by speedrunners to move around faster. You need a creature with wings to do this. The steps are as follows: 1. Click on a creature to select them. It can be any creature, as long as it isn't the player creature. 2. Face the direction of the selected creature. 3. Pause the game. This step is mandatory, as otherwise you will just jump in the direction of the selected creature. 4. Jump twice while the game is paused. This will activate the wings, which is what makes pause boosting/creature slinging possible. 5. Un-pause. Your creature will get flung in the direction the creature you selected was in at a super fast speed and the momentum is kept even if you start using the glide ability, so you can fly very far distances very fast with this technique. It's useful not only for speedrunning, but also for quick getaways when you're in a bind. I believe you could also achieve the flight of the bumblebee achievement with this technique pretty easily.

There was a time in which anyone could get the robotic parts by contacting EA's customer support, or at least that's how I got them. Why go through the trouble to get them that way if you could use mods to get them? Because EA's customer support can activate the parts in your sporepedia, that way you can share and download creations that use them. I think they dropped support for that game around 2019 or at least that's what I have read so far.

Not to be dramatic but i'd give my life for Bean

I bought this game at Walmart when I was a kid; my mother got so mad at me that I purchased a video game, but I have lots of good memories with this game. I hope there is a sequel.

Man i was surprised to see gtm00 on here, the dude always responded ''i like the feet'' whenever me or my friends uploaded creatures with a certain type of feet, it was weird yet funny to us. This person always gave me weird vibes, but this..? big yikes.

The cell posession has some basis in evolution. Its considered that some structures in cells such as mitochondria and chloroplasts were once less advanced smaller free swimming cells that at some point started living inside other larger cells. Like a taco bell inside a kfc.

I think people overestimate how strange some of the missing editors are. Computers of the time were terrible and as the targeted player base was children, they had to keep that in mind when choosing features and required specs

The icebergs missed some things: The Masaari Statue The immovable rocks in Adventure Town Tamarian Hoppers appear when you use the Black Cloud Grob Pirates are Knights Harvester Vehicles Vehicles can be sold in space stage in the city editor Clark and Stanley ICBM Dr. Strangelove reference Anticipaste is assymetric Sea Monster = Battered Feesh Creature Shuffler

As someone who's been in the spore modding community fairly recently, I can shed a bit of light on Dark Injection. The main developer of DI is also the developer of the most common mod management format, and he's been working on an upgraded system to make mods easier to install, enable/disable, and even tweak individual settings on.

There's a bug I've found in the Steam version of Spore. If you're in the creature stage, go to the sporepedia, and change to another tab, once you return to the game your creature will essentially flatten, be unable to move, eventually starving it.

Nice video!! I never imagined that Spore could hold so many dark secrets. I've been playing Spore for a long time and I have a few stories to share: Have you ever noticed that despite the Civilization stage being about your creatures converting cities of your own species, in the loading screen there'll appear Maxis' creatures on it? I'm talking about the civilized creatures. Yet, when you play through the stage there's no sign of them. Well, I distinctly remember playing the Civilization stage a few times years ago, and my species only owned one city, while the others were controlled by Maxis' creatures. I've never heard of something similar happening with someone, not that I've searched a lot to be honest. But it was something that always intrigued me.

20:05 wait a minute, you said earlier that certain cells had unobtainable parts. If you used this glitch on one of those, and entered the creature creator, I wonder what would happen. 🤔

I will sacrifice my first born child for spore

This Video makes me sad, realizing what Spore could have been and all the deleted contend. Fuck EA for rushing this game, it could have been so good.

13:58 This makes me think, This game probably takes place before humans even existed.

Nice video. I finally learned what the hell UBD was... for the longest time I thought it just meant any creepy/gory spore creation. I'm surprised Clark and Stanley, megabuilds, the hidden vehicle weapon, and the staff picture easter egg weren't mentioned though. I'd want a part 2 but honestly I don't think there's much else to cover aside from those and the multitudes of (mostly unconfirmed or anecdotal) glitches and bugs in the game.

"i'm not sure why the 'kidnapping babies' feature was removed from the game, but i think it may have had something to do with the underlying dark themes around kidnapping babies" me, an intellectual: "hmm, yes... this makes logical sense."

I remember being 10, playing freshly released Spore, and first thing I did was to ally with the Grox. It took me hours, and when I finally clicked the ally proposal, the entire galaxy turned red agaisnt me and also every single empire I encountered opened a message screen with me. It was loud, but worth it :D

The "Human Faced Dog" one actually has an explanation. It's a yokai (natural spirit, monster, or demon) from Japanese folklore. It's said to be a dog with a human face that appears at night in urban areas, capable of speech but want to be left alone. There are two possible explanations - misidentification of macaques rummaging through garbage, or just an unusual dog that was exhibited in a sideshow in the late 1800's that turned into an urban legend. Like that "human faced dog" that was making the rounds on the internet a few months ago.

20:09 this glitch is how mitochondria became part of our cells, actually

I think something that is overlooked with the cake editor is that the cutscene where you transition from the tribal stage to the civilisation stage shows your creatures 'discussing' what the new society would look like. In part of this you see from the speech bubbles of your creatures suggesting and agreeing on thinks like a building and vehicle which you then have to design. In this cutscene, you also get a different symbol depending on what ending you got from the tribal stage and pie. The pie just seems to be included for comic relief since it's dismissed by the rest of the creatures, but the unreleased cake editor makes me think that 1: instead of using pie for the joke, they planned on using cake and 2: you would use this editor to design some kind of national cuisine.

spore creatures scare the living daylights out of me

Fantastic video! I’ve been a spore fan since my little brother gave me his copy of spore creatures on the ds back in 2009, and admittedly there were quite a lot of things that even I didn’t know about in this iceberg!

As a Mainer who has played spore since the release I was pretty annoyed I couldn’t unlock those extra parts darn

While i still played on my physical copy of spore a many years ago, i kept getting the underwater nest glitch, at first i thought it was really cool and was making aquatic looking creatures and killing creatures that got too close to the shore, but it was impossible to get past the tribal stage, so i just stoped playing spore for a few years until i bought a digital copy on steam.

*gets groomed on the sporepedia*

It's not what Steve knows that you don't, it's what you know that Steve doesn't. Mainly, the fact that you blew up his time share.

15:22 I believe this is referring to the "pause launch" glitch, often used in speedruns, where in creature stage you can pause, select another creature, and then use wings before unpausing to "launch" yourself towards the other creature. I reccomend KinglyValence's commentated speedrun videos, where he uses and explains this glitch.

I thought there would be a twist where The Grox were actually humans, so I was kinda disappointed by their reveal.

Spore is probably my most under appreciated childhood game. I would play through all stages but once I got to the space stage I’d fly around a bit and never return. Now that I’m playing it again at age 26 I am loving how expansive the game really is.

Me when i think about spore 2: : ) Me when i think about spore 2: : (

As a portuguese former spore creator, I was pretty surprised by gtm00. Had no idea

I remember playing the spore animal stage in 2008 and seeing giant floating Barack Obama spaceships, I genuinely couldn’t grasp what I saw

normal iceberg bottom tiers: scary facts about in-game stuff spore iceberg bottom tiers: *cp*

I once had an EA representative ask me if I've been locked out of Spore or Spore 2. I was so confused! Basically i couldn't log in in Spore.

This takes me back, I remember hearing about a bunch of this stuff especially the White spice back in the day, in one of my builds I made homage to it, by making a factory that had all the spice colors piled up around it including the rare White spice and hinting a even rarer black spice. Unfortunately, I haven't been back to playing spore for over 10 years, my computer had died on me, and when I finally reinstalled it I tried linking my game to Origin and it didn't work, my dlc did, but I don't really feel compelled to repurchase it after spending $80 to begin with

One thing about the cake editor, I think it could be an easter egg to the end of the Tribal stage, where a member of your evolved pack suggests that "now we can.. bake cakes" or something like that and it could've been used in the game as a joke, as if the member's suggestion was accepted (Also, music from true lab and abyss just o.o dark, even darker, so thrilling)

Creature slinging is commonly used in speedruns. Yes, people speedrun Spore. Also, regular Spore creatures are HUGE, you can easily cross a continent on Earth even with that slow ass hologram.

The tutorial part in space age when you find that planet with ruined cities have the destroyed building in the middle. That building has a very pixelated dark image inside it that I've extracted using a specific software that datamines the resources used by the game in real time. The image look like an intercom with Grox on it. Are you interested in this?

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the SporeWiki Fiction Universe (a sci-fi universe created in Spore).

finally a spore iceberg

You’re my fucking HERO

I was going to make one of these but I was shy about using my voice.

It's not- the irl Luddites had a manifesto. It's not 'some scholars,' it's all scholars vs corporate propaganda opposing the first workers union's destruction of any factory that refused to pay it's workers a living wage.

I remember using the comic creator a handful of times as a little kid. I even printed out some of the pages I made and stapled them together. god knows where those are now.. I do remember a few things about it. You were given a selection of backgrounds, and some pngs of different creatures in various poses that you could drag and drop into different panels. It wasn't anything particularly interesting but i miss it and was happy that you mentioned it

This video is really well made, it is concise and very easy to understand, it’s really nice to see it getting more and more views since this is rather underrated Good job my guy

I loved this game so much as a kid, wish this receiveid the remake it deserves with all the content it should have had.

Great Iceberg video on spore my man, you really did a good job explaining all this about spore that people ether forgot, or didn't know about it's history. well done. :) and... I now know at 29:30 why the large part of the spore community hated him, that some dark stuff.

Oh whoa, I remember having the Spore comic book creator. I was really into writing and storytelling when I was a kid, and since I played so much Spore, my parents got it for me for some holiday. I wonder if they still have the copy, but likely not

One of the best Games ever made, its really sad that there never was another one, maybe someday

Really appreciate you making this video--I really enjoy/enjoyed Spore.

I love this video but there a a few things you should have added the theory that Steve is the last human Spore islands (closed Facebook spinoff game) Spore Creatures Mobile (a sequel to spore origins but focusing on the creature stage not the cell stage)

25:45 I have a little theory for the cake editor and here it is. maybe the cake editor wouldve been an optional editor that appeared on the menu whenever its spore's birthday and players would have the ability to create a cake for it. Then your / Maxis'es creations would celebrate it with the cake you've just created. Just a little theory of mine c:

3:57 “not in the Sporepedia” I think it’s notable to include, while not technically the sea monster, the Maxis creature Battered Feesh shares a striking resemblance to it.

SOMEONE REMEMBERS IT Damn, I played Spore my entite childhood and I didn't know so much about this game. Thanks

The video was amazing! I've been in the spore community since the day I knew about it In my free time, I constantly read the wiki, just to figure out about some curiosities, and stuff like that I'm very glad to know there are people who are still interested in spore nowadays My best wishes from Chile, and keep up with the good work. And my apologies in case of misspelled something

This is the one video i wanted for an iceberg video. Thanks for the vid man

We made it into the video! Thanks RoyalBlue. I created Dark Injection!

35:00 the human faced dog is likely a referenced to the japanese Akashita Dog. It's essentially a Yōkai tengu x dog that has human like properties.

Spore creatures was the only spore game I ever had. For years when people talked about spore I thought that was what they meant. Real hard game to play as a kid that couldn't speak English.

You have put this effort in a dope video, planning a part 2 for this video and you don't even have 1k subscribers (when this video came out). This is pure will and chad/king energy. Good shit man :)

Great video, thankyou for making Loved the song choices in the background throughout Like how you played "core" during the core, and how "this is where we say farewell" came in near the end. Love both of those songs ^.^ Not the only good thing about the video but just something that stood out to me as being really fun, and wanted to give some credit where credits due.

Spore Creatures was my first experience with Spore and I've loved it ever since! And now, I'm more smart because of you as well lol...

I think it would be really cool if there was a stage after the space stage called the intergalactic stage, unlocked by either allying the grox and then taking over every single other empire in the galaxy, or defeating the grox (effectively colonising the galaxy), in the intergalatic stage you can travel to other galaxies where different spices can be mined (not the same ones in your galaxy, and you can sell other galaxies spices to different galaxies), you can unlock new upgrades for intergalactic colonisation and upgrade your intergalactic drive to visit galaxies further away. There’s also a new unique ‘superweapon’ at the centre of every galaxy you can unlock. I just think colonising the entire known universe would be so awesome, really makes me wish they would make a Spore 2. Edit: I also think it would be really cool if your species was the first galaxy faring civilisation to appear in the known universe, but as time went on, other species would colonise their galaxies and go intergalactic, and you could either ally or declare intergalactic war on them.

Another thing to mention: There was the so called "Spore - Galactic Edition", which included the base game, a DVD with behind the scenes material from where the game was in the making, another DVD containing a 50-Minute long documentary about evolution from National Geographic, a hardback book with concept arts and backstories from maxis devs, the handbook, all in one hard plastic box. I had this as a child and I was completely obsessed with it. I am still having it and everytime I look at the concept art book, it reminds me, when I always took the book with me to elementary school and showed it to my friends how cool it is. Always hits me with that nostalgia.

I wanted to do a spore ice berg but I never got around it! Thanks for making this, Spore is one of my all time favourite games :]

Fucking dying. The MOMENT you said "The player is Spode" my computer bluescreened. I was given forbidden knowledge, and the government had to shut me down

Great video! Spore basically defined my childhood, and it's great to learn some new things about it! And while I'm here, was your friend the voice of Rose Lalonde in Let's Read Homestuck for a while? I swear that's her voice.

The aquatic stage would be so cool. Underwater tribes, underwater cities, underwater animals. Instead of a big ol' fish that kills you once you get too deep.

I always love it when creators leave props to all the stuff in the vid

If the Human Faced Dog story is true, I want to know how the hell someone made something actually scary in Spore?

Oh that GTM00 guy, I’ve seen the crazy drama surrounding him and very slightly involved in it myself. I’m not trying to defend him or anything but his creepy remarks may come off as unintentional because the guy just doesn’t seem to know what the fuck he’s doing and appears to have the mind of a young child despite being a grown ass adult. Not to mention the language barrier also made it difficult for him to communicate too.

I f****ing love this game and the iceberg format. This is the perfect video for me. Just seeing the top part of the list which contains some of the more obscure parts of the lore. Ok, take my like.

Fun fact : The robotic parts were actually a absolute disaster, I went out buying Dr.Pepper to get the parts myself, and they had MAJOR flaws. All the mouths and feet (except those attached to "fresh" arms and legs) in spore have at minimum level 1 sing, and level 1 dance. You cannot make a base vanilla creature that doesn't have sing. (Due to needing to use social to "recruit" pack members, at least with this minimum you'd still be able to recruit your own species) However....uh....how do I say this robots can't sing? The mouths in the robots pack had no sing skill, as a matter of fact I think they didn't really provide any major boost beyond bite-power and were all classified as Omnivore. Which also extended to their feet and when all put together, you couldn't social, get pack members, or even use the social system in creature stage. Doing so crashed the game and if it didn't your creature would just stand there and...well can't do actions you don't have. They looked cool don't get me wrong but I ruined quite a few creature stage games when they would use six or seven of the "robots" i made in space-stage creature creator it'd basically lock me out of advancing outside of aggressive if too many spawned in a playthrough. This was all creature stage bug's though so outside of that stage of the game nothing else was of issue I think.

ive always wondered about the Coranaffle plant, because it looks like its made from a creature rather than a plant, and i dont think theres another plant with that color-scheme

3:56 actually, this creature can be found as a wild animal in random planets of space stage, and if you scan it with the creature radar thing you unlock its sporepedia info

Spore is a game I love deeply. Thank you for making this vid, it's like chicken soup for my soul.

one thing i would like to point out about the game and editor there was a command ingame that saved out your creation as a 3d model with textures. this was due to maxis used to 3d print spore creations. and i used to 3d print spore models for people before it started going downhill. also did you know robin Williams loved the game. he was at a viewing of the game and was aloud to play with the editor. it was great to watch him enjoy himself. that might also be where people got the idea about a spore movie as he was making up his own voices and dialog as he was playing with the editor. i loved the game i also managed to get featured a few times. i loved the creativity that you had with the game.