The game still was somewhat of a technical marvel, especially for its time. I don't think I've seen anything like the creature editor where it would allow you to create fairly arbitrary creatures, try to automatically detect what was the head, torso, legs; and try to animate them all correctly. Then, entire creature definitions were encoded into small PNG files using stenography, which could be shared with minimal data usage.

As a kid my first experience of it was a friend playing it so I got that feeling of wonder from that instead of trailers and the like, and because of that i was very satisfied with the game

Exact same thing that happened with No Man's Sky. That first trailer was so obviously curated out-the-wazoo, and I remember people insisting it was the last game they'd ever need to play based on it alone. And we all know what happened when that one came out.

Those of us not in the industry refer to that as "lying."

The game got released in 2008, why is this a modern day article as if the game was just released, while the information is what everyone who ever played the game already knows? The game is almost old enough (just 2 more months) to get it's drivers licence and buy alcohol in my country. When I was reading this I was like: "wait... Was there a new Spore game released?" But no, it's just about an 18 year old game 🤷

I thought the world was going to shit, but apparently there's nothing else to write about than an 18 year old game, from a sea of thousands of game being released per year.

Ok, Thanks for sharing, at least it's not bullshit from Trump or Musk or whatever I guess.

Yeah we were there when it happened

Translation: "We were just shitting you, so don't buy our game."

I loved Spore, but I'm easily pleased with video game. I liked creature stage the most, but also liked space and puttering around!

Yes, but:

Oh I remember this game. I'm still irritated at the fraudulent claims. The game was not at all what I expected. Marketing can eat me for this one.

Bullshit.

EA did what they’ve been doing for 30 years: buy a competing game studio, release a few token cash grab titles under their beloved name, then shut down the studio and lay off all the developers. EA mediocritized Will Wright’s original vision for Spore, and trashed the last SimCity game with their always-online, closed architecture and slapdash support.

The really insidious part is that EA does make fun games, but they have remade the industry in their image: closed source, online only, DRM-infested, yearly release, day-one “expansion”, cash grab software that inspires none of the community and creativity that used to foster legendary franchises. And, they’ve killed countless game studios to create a quasi-monopoly to do it with.

I am still bitter over what they did to Maxis. I will never buy another EA game for as long as I live.

It might be worth to link to the original source: https://www.designroom.site/spore-an-oral-history/

Design Room is a new online magazine authored by one of the writers laid-off by Vox Media when it acquired Polygon.
You can read the Oral Histories after a free subscription.

The thing that really bugged me about Spore was how lame the “evolution” was.

If early developments in your creatures set certain things in motion that then played out differently that would be great and add replay value.

But nothing was meaningful at all, you could completely change stuff back and forth. Very little in your evolutionary history actually mattered, at all.

We know this.

We've known this for decades.

Why is this now news?

Slow news day?

Okay since people seem disturbed - Do you all remember DARKSPORE?

Every creature on the box art is impossible in-game one way or another.

But spore was awesome though