The Lost, Canceled, and Cut Content of Spore | Lost Media

Spore was a game that I frequently played growing up, and now, I get to talk about it for lost media! Woohoo! Come join me today as we talk about lost and cut content from the Spore universe; including beta content, two missing games, and even a possible theatrical adaptation!
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[SewerReviewer]

I have no idea why the Spore clips I recorded are so low quality lmao. Anyways, it's good to be back, thanks for watching lol.

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[efrainoctavio]

Imagine a game like Spore but with today's graphics and no EA

[walter]

@11:52 This is still a feature in the game. Eyeless creatures have severely limited radius of vision and it's all in sepia tone. It's quite the challenge.

[JazzSicaa]

Spore was a huge part of my childhood, and it's also the main reason I hate Eletronic Arts. I miss it so much..

[riam]

Cake editor is probably a nod to a quote: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"
It was probably planned as a reward for reaching Galactic Core, but was cut due the lack of time.

[silverfire]

I’d love for them to remake spore- I bet they could do some of the things they wanted to do back then (like the aquatic stages). I honestly think Spore Remastered/2 would probably be pretty damn popular nowadays. I still look for games like Spore to this day and haven’t found one that gives me the exact same feel.

[Antmc]

i feel like the "Cake editor" was an inside joke from the devs cause when i was a kid making the buildings in Civ stage, i always thought they looked like cakes

[thecringekid]

I honestly really wish they had kept the original acquatic and city stages. Or at least keep them as optional opt-ins.

[Ratich]

The eyes are indeed not decorative in the final game if you remove the eyes off a creature you get reduced visibility

[Pinnaporaptor]

Spore is such an interesting case, either for the content in general or for what goes on under the hood of the game, there really isn't anything like it.

[riam]

I rememer that there was a glitch when during Creature stage cutscene game freaks out and acctually puts your nest underwater. It happened to two of my friends and I was always jealaous because best that happened to me was that one time when I somehow saved a creature without a mouth and game crashed.

[rafaelcruzs]

Spore was such a turning page in my life. It really shaped my future the moment it got me in awe with biological evolution.
Although the depicted evolution isn’t quite accurate, it was just enough to get me reading biology books in my late childhood.

[cecilb]

I remember being a kid and being so mad the aquatic stage was cut upon release, it seemed so cool to me and I wanted to play it so bad.

[norielgames]

Note: bacteria are cells. There's many types of cells. Your cells and mine are what's called eukaryotic cells. They're more complex than a bacterium, but both are just cells.

[FroggBoy]

I grew up on spore, it was a awesome game and even now(atleast for me) still holds up well enough. I kinda wish some of this stuff made it into the final game, but alas

[mayanightstar]

Your childhood gaming style was SO MUCH like mine. Nobody is ever truly alone in this universe.

[Pacca]

A neat thing about the city stage that was leftover in the final game; there's a 'super' vehicle editor that lets you build any non space ship vehicle, and among the options for vehicle types next to land sea and air are 'harvester'. Unfortunately, creations saved as harvesters in the editor crash the game when you attempt to load them and the sporepedia doesn't support them, but it is interesting to think that a remnant actually made it into the final game, given how radically different the final is to the prototypes.

[Slogstin]

Imagine the community had the game's Source Code or reverse engineered it.
Seeing more stages and general improvements in the game would be good. There's so much potential.

[AjTolly]

11:50 You mention that if you have no eyes, you would play blind, but there is already a blind mode if you remove your eyes on the game, you will see colorblind and most of the screen will be indeed blinded.

[BinglesP]

I'm a member of DavoOnline, which is essentially *the* Spore forum both for the game itself and the modding scene. I'm happy to see the game is still alive, it's one of my favorites of all time even today(EA aside). I really wish we had a beta version available, but at least we have any record of it at all.