I Made Spore 2 Because EA Didn't

[@krispingle]

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.

[@JakalTalk]

IP is like jewels to the bean-counters: they hoard them like treasure, and only grudgingly let people touch them.

[@krispingle]

@@JakalTalk I love bean counter I've never heard that

[@dragonwing4ever]

same as the alice in wonderland ip, has a dedicated fanbase and a dev that was passionate and prepared to fund it himself yet ea still said no to him, ea is a shitty shitty company

[@tomhossain2099]

Tax write offs

[@ThatGuyRNA]

Same as the PVZ ip…

[@TheStickofWar]

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

[@jordanlp02]

what does this mean@@rytif

[@FroggyFun1234]

​@@rytif???

[@zulazhar1259]

@rytif what does it mean

[@Ug-lordetheunmovable]

@rytif what did you say

[@Jabbathefrukt]

Multiplayer Spore really is the ultimate childhood dream come true

[@kedryn-ck9mm]

and going to different galaxies

[@Opwitherskeleton]

I agree

[@adgurkan]

Fr

[@nordvirus6671]

Never heard of Dark Spore?

[@Jabbathefrukt]

@@nordvirus6671 Bruh, Dark Spore is nothing like the creature stage and only a few players (4?)

[@curzzlxrd]

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!

[@elpoodoo3099]

True, spore was about evolution. This is just creature creation. Calling it spore 2 or a successor to Spore is simply dumb

[@puiu976]

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

[@SpaceRacoon__]

I mean you can just copy games that are already great and add them, like microbe and creature always worked well as they were, but you can swap the city with a kind of civilization and the space with a kind of stellaris, you can even use a kind of The Guild family three in city mod where your family and allies gain power with generation, wage war and upgrade a tech tree, that could work well with a civilization outlay, and fuse space mod with stellaris, that would be the most complete, overwhelming and incredible game of all time

[@hyenajokes]

try stellaris!

[@devilbob]

Evé online

[@puiu976]

@@hyenajokes ohh cool! It looks very interesting, I might give it a try once i have some free time in my hands :)

[@CraigBoykin]

Yea stellaris is it

[@DindellaTheDefender]

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!

[@poopyfartboi]

I remember getting my mom to buy it for me back in 2009, unfortunately what i didn't know was that our PC couldn't run it. But boy when we got an upgrade I put in dozens of hours. EA is missing out on so much money for not making a sequel, the world wants and needs one now more than ever! So if anybody from EA is reading this, first of all fak u. But also give us Spore 2

[@sonicloverlol2]

It cloud ve mutch more but no he just putted in the most popular thing from spore and made a game from it (i mean that ge doesnt care about other things from spore only the main thing of spore creathur creator and animal era, he cloud make soo mutch more!)

[@Ulissescars]

I mean, Willosaur never appeared properly in Spore, but there is a creature called 'Tripod Neuvo' that resembles it pretty closely

[@Dzekin]

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!

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much for the support! It has been quite the journey haha!

[@Funnyman872]

​@@DanielLochnerI made a car once in creature creator, and it was actually like a real car

[@WaYRt]

What do you mean 5 days ago???

[@a2pabmb2]

Well, @@WaYRt. Sometimes when a patron and a content creator love each other very verrrry much, the creator provides early access to their videos for the patron(s).

[@Dzekin]

@@a2pabmb2 well it's not a case this time, not a patron

[@JoeXz-98]

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!

[@duckso9203]

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

[@DanielLochner]

That’s a great suggestion! Thanks! 😄

[@Flahtort]

@@DanielLochner , but not make them green and red. In many games green numbers reserved for healing. You can also use different font for you damaging and you get dagamed.

[@tuscansun2320]

@@Flahtortyellow and red

[@Flahtort]

@@tuscansun2320 , yeah, exactly. MMORPG classic. Red for incoming, yellow for dealed.

[@DindellaTheDefender]

You could always make it so the text color for giving and receiving damage is customizable in settings. That way people with varying forms of colorblindness can see it.

[@mimthyss]

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!!!

[@kurenai_chi]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much! 😄

[@oopsie3415]

Comitting to the bit lol

[@AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]

I hope you make more updates in the future ​@@DanielLochner

[@flomojo2u]

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!!

[@Aladite]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Hey Aladite! Thanks so much for contributing - your patterns are awesome! 🥳🎉

[@krispingle]

​@@DanielLochnerI have a question for ya. How is the mobile version free? I see it says in the settings "restore in-app purchases" but I've yet to see a store. I ask because I both want to throw money at you for this and I'm curious how you're paying for servers.

[@Erynash]

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.

[@PythonicIe]

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.

[@minestar2247]

Sadly it would probably be hard to implement, take away attention from other parts, and not be used by most people

[@DanielLochner]

That’s a really good idea, but as @minestar2247 mentioned, it is unfortunately a bit tricky to implement! Animations are all procedural, which means that all movement of limbs are controlled by IK targets. That being said, those targets could be key-framed, but it would be better to control that via script so that targets could rather be moved to a target (e.g., moving the arm target towards a fruit on the ground to pick it up). Anyway, thanks for the suggestion! Glad you’re enjoying the game! 🥳

[@AxoYT_4]

@@DanielLochnerhave a mini coding area or some variables you can tweak so you can change the animation.

[@connorallgood0922]

You'd probably have to restrict them in minigames too and such as you could make animations that just completely hide what you are doing, for example you could just remove all animations. Make animations that are just really excessive and intrusive. I feel it would detract a lot from the game.

[@AxoYT_4]

@@connorallgood0922 yeah

[@matheusrodrigues4819]

KZbin 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.

[@lukascreech3229]

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!

[@DanielLochner]

Thank you! 😄 It was always a childhood dream of mine to have multiplayer included in Spore! Good luck with your project!

[@Sventt]

​@@DanielLochnerit would be amazing if u could add the other stages for it, the cell, animal, tribal, citizens and space, that would be very amazing to have and play in multi-player

[@cachatt]

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

[@DarkEdgeTV]

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.

[@sansthegreatskeletonpunlordboi]

Hello

[@sansthegreatskeletonpunlordboi]

Also what you said is a facts

[@Wauzmons]

Did someone say THRIVE?! Have you heard of-

[@donchan327]

whats up becca nation

[@DanielLochner]

Ahh thanks so much Rebecca! 😊 Also, 6:28 was so wholesome I had to include it in the video! 😂

[@syrexnd]

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.

[@vinnythedev]

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 ❤

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much! Really glad you liked it! 🥳🎉

[@SlickVic5240]

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

[@KnownAsKenji]

You go calculate the amount of warehouses you'd need to rent out to fit ten thousand people and I'll let you know if that bill is small.

[@SlickVic5240]

@@KnownAsKenji Compared to other KZbinrs, his channel is not as large

[@Wauzmons]

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".

[@MatthewCenance]

What was your favorite part of the video?

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much Wauz! Really appreciate it! 😊

[@Hietakissa]

Funnily enough, it does the exact opposite for me. If other people can already make games like this, then how could I ever compete?

[@zynstein8059]

@@Hietakissa Aint about competing, doesnt need to be better than everyone elses thing, just make something you're happy with. It's yours, have fun with it. That is honestly the best thing u can do with creating anything. Just have fun with the process.

[@ArtByLuckyee]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@HietakissaSeconding what Zynstein8059 said! Especially for passion projects, as long as you aren’t outright stealing people’s work and passing it off as your own and instead build off of ideas that you think are good but with your own twists and ideas that you want to see, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel! Use projects you find inspiring or motivational or just plain cool and figure out exactly what about it leaves such a positive impact on you. Instead of seeking to “one-up” it or compete with it, wear your inspirations on your sleeve and use that as motivation to start your own projects! You’ll find that the process of ideating will become much more natural when you don’t pressure yourself to make something perfect right away, or to try and copy somebody else but make it “better”. Let your brain wander and take things in new directions, then when you’re finally ready to settle down on a project, you can sweep away the ideas that you found interesting but didn’t fit into their own documents to use as inspiration later! That way it doesn’t clutter and destabilize your work. Obviously there’s a lot more nuance to this and I’m just getting into the complex world of game development myself, but remember this: Everybody works at their own pace. Everybody learns at their own pace. Everybody creates at their own pace. And just because you don’t feel like you can do something now, doesn’t mean you can’t learn to do it in the future. And when you learn, you’ll often find a myriad of other useful experiences to draw from as well. In an industry where people compete all of the time, I think that it’s useful to remember that you don’t have to set standards for yourself that you don’t feel like you can reach yet. Key word here, yet. I believe in you, and good luck on your journey, wherever you choose to go and whatever you choose to take part in. You’ve got this. o7 (P.S. Sorry for the novel, I’m just very passionate about these kinds of things!)

[@owendubs]

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.

[@AndrewMaller-qy8mo]

Slay.

[@KuromiMago]

THIS! Spore can develop such a gameplay depth, so many playstyles, that its sad it's relegated to development jail.

[@andrewzizhen]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Ah thanks so much Andrew! Appreciate it! 😊

[@lew.bow.studios]

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!

[@andrewpepperoni197]

Things come with time, start doing them and you will be able to do them too, experience comes with time, effort and mistakes.

[@lew.bow.studios]

@@andrewpepperoni197 the time we have, sadly, is kinda finite, so one can only do so many things :P

[@andrewpepperoni197]

@@lew.bow.studios yeah, unfortunately, life is kinda a game of trade offs.

[@courtneyharris1407]

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

[@DanielLochner]

😅😅😅

[@YvngKrishna]

They would probably make each evolutionary stage besides the amoeba stage dlc

[@spacefan36]

So true!!

[@pedrodereva5499]

No lo hacen porque saben que si Spore fue de los juegos más pirateados en su momento, hacer un juego mejor simplemente lo haría el juego más pirateado y amado del mundo (los precios de EA serían los causantes de la piratería)

[@stumonster6091]

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?

[@Tuxfanturnip]

it feels close, but without an animated spine the life is just not there in any of the animations, and the missing geometry blending makes creatures feel much more like parts stuck together.

[@Deadbeatcow]

You're right, one guy should be able to make an AAA game with an entire team and millions of dollars, all by himself! Imagine going to a children's art day and criticizing them because they're not Rembrandt or Monet.

[@stumonster6091]

@Deadbeatcow all I'm saying is it's not spore 2, its a bunch of minigames like fall guys that'll get boring in minutes unlike spores almost endless concept and creativity. It's not great looking either imo as @Tuxfanturnip put it well, without the spine it looks poorly animated. This isn't a children's art day, he's an adult man not a kid, he can take some criticism in this sea of overly positive response.

[@bananaanimations2003]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Thank you! 😊

[@elator]

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 !

[@cbblade3629]

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 :)

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much for the support! 🥳🇿🇦

[@FeeshUnofficial]

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

[@randomshotz13]

It's as open as GTA etc... the game can be approached non linearly with near complete control of where you go and what you do when you choose to, that's open world in most books.

[@Jabbathefrukt]

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.

[@Wauzmons]

A full evolution game with multiple stages is what I'm trying to do. Or if you are looking for just creature stage specifically, take a look at "Adapt".

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks so much for the support for all this time! I appreciate it! Yes, I wanted to try offer something different to Spore by focusing on the multiplayer aspect! As Wauz mentioned there are other games in development by other developers though which may be of interest to you! Adapt, The Sapling, Elysian Eclipse and Thrive to name a few!

[@Jabbathefrukt]

@@DanielLochner But that is really the thing I feel like was a bit of a missed opportunity. When playing Spore, the idea that all the other creatures running around could be online players intrigued me and I think a game like that with focus on open world PvP, survival, making friends and joining forces together with other creatures would be my ultimate game. I've heard that Elysian Eclipse will have multiplayer, so maybe that'll be the perfect game for me.

[@Wauzmons]

@@Jabbathefrukt EE won't have multiplayer. Just a workshop to share creations like in Spore.

[@AiMaTay]

​​@@DanielLochneryou really think your goat simulator copy is an experience people want more than the Spore creature stage? You know people just want Spore but multiplayer, you are wasting the potential of this game by not creating that.

[@The_oli4]

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.

[@poitre_]

There's also "thrive" very promising game on paper but I think the developement stopped

[@Lightning_Lance]

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

[@The_Qcumber]

yes, this, why didn't just do this.

[@nugget4yearsago518]

@@The_Qcumber So far these "spore successors" have been doing little outside of a basic semblance of a creature creator for the gimmick and leave at that, I don't have high hopes for these projects honestly

[@NotreDanish]

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.

[@gucluomer7012]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Hey there! Thanks so much for your help with the translation! 😄

[@gucluomer7012]

no problem😁 @@DanielLochner

[@drentify]

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.

[@Fiery_Emily]

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 :]

[@captain_birdfaced]

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

[@RobertThomsonDev]

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

[@Sarril101]

Thanks Daniel for making it, I hope you'll continue to work on it & give it love. Hope it will grow and eventually become what Spore could've possibly been if EA gave a shit about anything besides profits & living in luxury with as little effort as possible. World needs more passion projects like this and people who actually care, and care not just about the money but things that can bring a lot of joy to people's lives.

[@weebv3]

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! :>

[@DanielLochner]

Thank you so much for the support, and I’m glad you liked the video! 😄 There is actually a setting in single-player creative mode to enable unlimited cash and complexity!

[@bejoscha]

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.

[@thelionoob]

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

[@HunterNicholsKingOfOmnitron]

Clickbait trash

[@aiodensghost8645]

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.

[@jonarhax3388]

Just put spore on consoles and switch and I'll be happy

[@MatthewCenance]

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.

[@Jabbathefrukt]

Will Elysian Eclipse have multiplayer though?

[@MatthewCenance]

@@Jabbathefrukt It won't - the developer determined it created too much stress for the developer.

[@wallspring2263]

spore for the wii was a masterpiece and I will never forget my experience with it, being reminded made me tear up...

[@IstasPumaNevada]

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.

[@mattj1829]

I literally used this creature creator as a reward for my year 6 class after their evolution topic. Nice one mate!

[@thescorgon5964]

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.

[@Frank_Art]

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

[@crappy_polygon_animator]

Hopefully this game will get more updates

[@DanielLochner]

It will! I’m working on the next update! Join the Discord server today give you input on the new experience/levelling system! 😊

[@gamergeek9000]

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

[@Imfleurious]

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.

[@fightinglucario]

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

[@RpgPenguins]

Elysian Eclipse is doing a similar thing

[@jangleleg117]

Downloading your game on Steam now, gotta support my SA devs. Great work man, the game looks even better now.

[@Fallenangel_85]

You really didn't make Spore 2, quite the bait. A successor should have all of what the previous game had and then some. Creature creator is good, but it's far from being Spore 2, more of a spinoff really. The fallout 76 to your fallout 4? kinda

[@nin3_]

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! 🔥

[@lahavmorris9919]

Yeeeees!

[@DanielLochner]

🥳🥳🎉

[@Zaphodschannel]

I am SO impressed that you have done this. I've played the OG Spore since release and the fact that you have done this off your own back is just amazing! The level of learning to produce this is far beyond me, these days. The level of 'problem solving' alone just goes to show your dedication. Well done, doesn't seem to cover it.

[@xPawsie]

I thought furrys were the sequel to spore..

[@smart_majority5166]

Omg I didn’t know you made that game I played it for a while

[@robloxdaryaka1345]

Is it for mobile?

[@viensayu9568]

Maybe

[@mahmoudrayaneelhajji]

Both

[@Leopard_211]

both PC and mobile versions are available

[@Leopard_211]

though the mobile version is a little bit more broken

[@DanielLochner]

Yes it is available for both PC and Mobile! And the multiplayer is supports cross-platform play!

[@fadepanther6224]

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.

[@Kieroshark]

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.

[@rubyrootless7324]

you're being rude

[@exXtraWurst]

sad to see the first half of this video and seeing so much potential and then you jsut put the creatures into a human world with obsticales. sad, but this is not spore 2 imo.

[@spencernoble3398]

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 ❤

[@American_Lobster]

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

[@Scrumboiling]

Make half a creature you liar

[@90texas]

Looks like you ain’t making any 😂

[@Thalz-wo1xx]

​@@90texas *Bonk*

[@American_Lobster]

@@90texasi made some guy, his name is sniper and he has like 14 things that spit

[@eo7477]

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

[@errantalgae]

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

[@jonarhax3388]

Yeah I'd love for future parts to be 1 to 1 recreations of spore parts like the eyes and iconic carnivore dinosaur mouths

[@lautarobeheran]

Stfu, this is stupidly awesome. You cant expect a single person to do what a fucking enormous company would not.

[@rubyrootless7324]

little tip just in case: something that might help a lot with how the creatures look is adjusting normals! you could technically go crazy with procedural normals to create really cool materials that look like different textures, scales, feathers etc, but I'm not sure if that would fit well with the game. but the biggest improvement would probably be just making the normals of different parts blend into each other, it would fit the art direction while making it look significantly more polished

[@GIRGHGH]

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.

[@matthewgomez9038]

I was SO EXITED cuz i thought this was the birth of a new creature evolution game, i can only assume creature evo sim project is more akin to what spore was but i already waited 16 years man, i need a spore 2 so bad

[@AlwaysRetr0]

Filthy Frank time to stop meme in 2024 is crazy

[@ADeviantLad]

Please regularly update this game its actually pretty cool,I think something like hunting methods would be pretty cool too ngl.

[@slayerdrake5901]

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

[@MumboJ]

I'm still shocked that there wasn't an underwater expansion. That would be so hype!

[@TonsOfHunStudios]

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

[@DanielLochner]

Thanks Garrett! Really appreciate it! 😊

[@themboopy6606]

This game definitely needs events and this looks so amazing dude. Can’t wait to play it

[@TaylorieYT]

Honestly this game is super cool and but it wasn't my personal type of game I played as I liked spore for an evo sim. But despite that I watched the entire video because it was so well made and conveyed how interesting and fun the game was in a spectacular way and I thought it was amazing. And then I saw the teased battle sim and evo sim games and I literally lost my mind

[@lordtelion]

Wow how did I miss this game. I was such a huge fan of spore growing up. I'm interested are how you plan to expand on this in the future. More maps? More customisation? Perhaps the art style or utilizing modern rendering technologies? Endless possibilities, I'm so eager to seem more.

[@yoboy5088]

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.

[@AineAmber]

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

[@mikigzaielart]

This is amazing!! ❤ Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

IT'S SPORE 2! WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!

[@flentaldoss]

Always thought it looked cool but I never got the opportunity to play Spore when I was younger. Thought this was just a random video that I might play on the side to pass the time, but it was actually really interesting and had all my attention. You provide enough detail that someone more curious knows where to look for more, but not so much that it's overly technical. That's a pretty amazing collection of work you've put into this game. Best of luck to you with it and your studies.

[@Ruby_WB]

I could hear from the first 10 seconds that you are from South Africa lol Always awesome to come across a fellow South African Online 😬

[@spliter88]

About 5:45 Just so anyone learning programming here knows. Having large classes is not a problem. Having a single class that's 5k lines long is not bad in itself, and if you can have 5k lines of code without repeating yourself, and that code exists only in that one class you don't need to sub-divide it into multiple classes. You should mainly separate functions and classes when you need to re-use code, or have a piece of code whose logic is completely different from the sorrounding code (eg: if you have a function that manipulates the skelet to align feet to the ground, and in the middle you need to do collision checks. Separating everything into individual files and classes has its own drawbacks, affecting performance, affecting code legibility, making it harder to optimize the code, and harder to see what actually gets changed, etc.

[@aylin6766]

The next big thing would be if galactic adventures would be remade in this. People creating their own props, vehicles, maps, and stories (maybe even music like in the city planner of the civ and space stage?). Next to that ingame editor there can also be bigger modifications made because it is open source I guess. Unlike in Spore. The feeling of GA is great. People level their captain like in an RPG by beaming down planets to do missions other ppl created. That is the basic story ppl can base their own stories/missions around. Or they can make their own original ones. I love the adventure creator. Even before you brought it up I thought that your game feels alot like goat simulator. I would describe it as a typical wacky game with wacky things to do but u can make your own avatar in spores style and play with other ppl. What specifically did you have in mind for a story? Is that all there is to it?

[@ezequielrantica]

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!

[@adicsbtw]

for team minigames, why not do a restricted color palette? You can still customize, but the colors are forced to be distinct to the team you're on to a degree

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

I still remember seeing the devlog video over two years ago, and I thought to myself: "yeah, this looks good. Hope the dev doesn't give up because the potential is there." Lo and behold, this game has proved to be a massive hit. You love to see a success story like this one. Congratulations!

[@qfurgie]

amazing stuff dude! better than a lot of triple a games today

[@hanz430]

Thank you for making this game since it feels like a budget free spore because I only have a phone and I don't have a PC to play spore

[@Dadz_art]

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 !!!

[@jamestitus472]

I just want the Spore Aquatic stage from the OG demo. That's why I preordered the thing. And the blood. It was so cool.

[@KS-nm6li]

I bought this game after watching this! It's a little basic, but enjoyable all the same. I got this because of the ability to export 3d models, but the lack of total parts means it's quite a limited feature, textured skin would be cool to add flavor for those who choose to I do hope you continue to develop this game, also your upcoming games should be DLC to this game to make it feel more completed and unified. Making 3d models is super easy, Maybe I'll join the discord and see what my options are to donate some. The seagull sounds are pretty good, the noise they make in game, means irl "look at this/food/something good"

[@swyrlyy]

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.