The Spore Iceberg EXPLAINED

A video long time in the making. This is the Spore iceberg explained. Thanks for watching!
(Due to being edited after being uploaded, the skips displayed in the actual video are off slightly)
SKIP 1: 33:56
SKIP 2: 35:18
The original iceberg posts that inspired mine:
/ the_spore_iceberg
/ the_spore_iceberg
/ i_created_a_spore_iceb...
Thrive: revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
Dark Injection: davoonline.com/sporemodder/rob...
My Twitter: / royalbluexiii
My Newgrounds: royalbluexiii.newgrounds.com/
Intro: 0:00
Explanation: 1:38
Open Skies: 2:26
The Tip: 8:47
Below the Surface: 15:13
The Core: 19:26
Diving Deep: 23:39
The Bottom: 27:10
Beneath the Iceberg: 29:31
ABYSS: 32:45
Conclusion: 36:49
Music in Order of Appearance:
Phantom - Persona 5
Heartbeat Heartbreak - Persona 4
Traverse Town - Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
Fresh (Chill Mix) - Friday Night Funkin'
King Queen and Slave - Persona 5
Snowman - Mother 3
Rude Buster - Deltarune
Pico (Instrumental) - Friday Night Funkin'
Tantal (Night) - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Zora's Domain - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Sweet - Persona 5
Heaven - Persona 4
CORE - Undertale
Roses - Friday Night Funkin'
Edge of Existence - Kingdom Hearts 3
Chaos King - Deltarune
Kraid's Lair - Metroid: Zero Mission
Sacred Moon - Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
Here We Are - Undertale
Who's There? - Persona 4
Gaster's Theme- Undertale
Ikana Valley - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
SNOWFLAKES - Persona 4

[@RoyalBlueXIII]

Thanks so much for all the support this video has been getting! If we can reach 1000 subscribers, I will make a Part 2 to the Spore Iceberg. So subscribe for more content like this!

[@Ttegegg]

Why a bit late aye?

[@Zapidalacz]

I was vibing too hard to the music from Undertale, Deltarune and FNF so i missed some stuff but the video was awesome. Great content my dude!

[@pemgeg3100]

you sound like crit1kal

[@kayagorzan]

Good job dude, great vid

[@starry2362]

sweet! i did notice there are a lot of not known spore things not included but im a huge enthusiast so it makes sense.

[@therealpingasman]

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.

[@boponthewee7585]

you're right. the game honestly feels a little bit unfinished if you ask me. it feels hollow, even with the inclusion of mods and shit, like there's some fundamental part of the game that's missing. although maybe it's just because of how ridiculously glitchy the game is lol

[@femmesammy8768]

Not just you. Every Spore fan I've met (me included) wholeheartedly agrees

[@jammygamer8961]

@@femmesammy8768 when you compare spore to its 2005 beta the released game actually has less features it seems

[@femmesammy8768]

@@jammygamer8961 Yeah

[@kayagorzan]

Yeah, that’s abit of a hard truth to swallow

[@omekun]

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

[@AWCVideo]

Symbolises that you shouldn’t socialise with doctor pepper

[@toainsully]

There is a workaround. Add a mouth (from the base game)

[@omekun]

@@toainsully true

[@Ttegegg]

Groxs nice singers

[@maxifire32]

Does this mean dr pepper is aggressive?

[@fapdosDev]

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

[@brondlini5459]

I had this happen to me, but in tribal stage. I tamed an animal, and the epic wich was the same species became friendly. Sadly, it was killed by another tribe 😔

[@Bengy.]

I had this happen to me too on one of my old worlds, on my old computer before it was formatted. It was freaky.

[@Bladeofdeath311]

I managed to do this too by being *very* social with several socially oriented companions running with me on the creature stage (at least one of them was a rogue of a prior social-based creation of mine and the other was a Maxis one I think - soooo long ago). Pretty cool. IIRC he started out as a pet or something on the Tribal stage. Either that or I hoped that he would. I don't remember lol.

[@juhn155]

Oh so I wasn't the only one to met a rogue in a nest???

[@fapdosDev]

@@juhn155 It's probably one of the rarest bugs to find, but there's people that also met rogues in nests! xD

[@ADudeWhoDo]

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.

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

Wait, that's not a feature? And you can replace the spike with something else?

[@goober253]

did the exact same thing myself once,but thought it was a real thing that wasn’t a glitch

[@ADudeWhoDo]

What I think is going on is that there is a small gap between the jaws where it doesn’t have a hit box and a small enough spike can fit in there and can be replaced instead of the mouth

[@xemiii]

I've experienced this before, though the epic still was hostile to my allies and ate a few of em

[@goober253]

it ate one of my rogue besties :(

[@dimetrodon2250]

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

[@schizophrenic_rambler]

That was the plan all along. EA was king of games, so they stopped taking games as electronic art, started buying all indies and milking successful game series

[@BeanOfBean]

@William, The encroaching one ba dum tiss

[@AdamPersson]

Ehh...Maxis created the sims. One of the best selling franchises ever created. They did not get ruined by Spore..

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

@@AdamPersson They were ruined by EA just like everything else they destroyed. We came to the era of corporate greed, online locking, paywalling of halfbaked tech demos being sold as ''finished games''. And EA was one of the first companies who iron fisted this idea into reality where lots of others followed because they seen how easy they can getaway with it. Some got sued but the gaming market speaks for itself. They sell scams with ease and enough idiots buy into it justifying it's existance. Publishers milk investors, developers milk the publishers, when no more money flows in release a mockup as a ''finished game'' milk it dry while move to the next title project that can be milked. So yeah folks, your ''games'' today are nothing but gimmicks, money laundring and a overall big placebo effect when it comes down to gameplay. Especially new gen kids don't even know wtf actual healthy gaming is when they grew up on these. They either grow out of it or grow into an addiction, if they even stay alive to become adults, that is. But you will see in parts of the world where all generations don't care for games and rather play something on PlayStation2. Still the most popular retro choice since with mods it can run all old stuff even more then that.

[@HuffinGlu]

@@AdamPersson would be nice to have a modern spore tho

[@adrianortiz8121]

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.

[@kazk1451]

If you're talking about the one from cantaloupefish then no because its date of birth is 2010, while the post about the human-faced dog was made in 2008

[@Bug0221]

@@kazk1451 then which could it be?

[@kazk1451]

@@Bug0221 idk there's like 10 human-face dogs so it'll be impossible to discover. Let's not forget that the original thread about it was somehow lost to time, so there may even be a chance that the thread never existed, or the story about it was just a fictional tale that never actually happened. We'll sadly never know.

[@Bug0221]

@@kazk1451 No, it definitely has to be that one by CantaloupeFish, It fits all requirements. It's a Human Faced Dog creation, made for a halloween contest (Ghost Town 2010), and it even has a comment from MaxisCactus themselves mentioning and linking a thread that's no longer available (or at least for me) about disturbing creations. The date could just be a mistake in the story or narration and it's actually 2010. Not only that but all Human Faced Dogs you say are edits of CantaloupeFish's creation, it's obvious because they're the exact same model with some modifications and in every description of those "clones" they explicitly say "I edited CantaloupeFish's creature" and his name is in the tags.

[@moonkitty420]

link?

[@gonderage]

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

[@stachman9531]

i think we are more likely to see a game imspired by spore that would be legit good, rather then a spore game EA would make, but i think it could happen. there is Thrive, but thrive has been in development for years and only has the single cell stage, i hope atlest by 2030 there will be a creature stage but i don't know at this point, also thrive is trying to be more "realistic", and i don't think that is a bad thing, but i kinda would like some thing that is a bit goofy stupid but too much, but that is my taste.

[@rivumrejex2864]

Depends on how much pressure is on them for a sequel...

[@Matt-td8xw]

Just give up man, EA is never selling Spore's rights or making another game by their own, and if they do, half of it will be lootboxes.

[@OminouSin]

Maxis was shut down a while back so that’s long impossible.

[@blackcat2333]

the difference is double fine actually cares about psychonauts. EA straight up left spore to rot

[@parkersalchak3506]

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.

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

Most of the dramas in the internet are pointless.

[@parkersalchak3506]

@@steampunkastronaut7081 ikr, thats why I don’t use social media, lol

[@parkersalchak3506]

@@chestnut4860 I would say so.

[@LCSMRTNS]

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.

[@gonderage]

Blue Sky is a familiar name, and I would've shat my pants had I heard that this was real. Sad to hear theyre down now.

[@maxifire32]

So no spore movie? :(

[@LCSMRTNS]

@@maxifire32 yeah :(

[@censoredeeznuts]

@@gonderage lots of great movies from that era, personally remember them for Robots

[@puppitree]

Wasn't Rio made by them?

[@SLYP1EPLUSH]

The things I would do for a sequel...

[@mrboxhed5214]

imo spore hero is the sequel

[@sumrandomfurry]

Bro

[@sumrandomfurry]

WHY ARE YOU HERE

[@iandungeon273]

Elysian eclipse

[@JackMehoph]

I am ready to suck off a developer let's do this

[@frozi1541]

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.

[@aceichner]

I came down here to look for your #4. Seemed like it should have been in the 'blue sky' portion.

[@BetaDude40]

Cube planets aren't a glitch, I think theyre a type of rare "storybook planet" that contains rare terrain generation

[@karpai5427]

@@BetaDude40 They are not rare. I always cringe when I see my moon like that in Creature Stage. I hate these planets.

[@haka-katyt7439]

@@karpai5427 I like turning them into colonies simply because it is funny

[@MikeSiegert]

Ahh man I just started playing Spore again and wanted to challenge myself with allying the Grox but I’d hate to work that hard and lose all allies. Thanks for the info!

[@MegaA77777]

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.

[@shoeboi4596]

I mean they are hyper aggressive and take everything

[@awagnow]

@@shoeboi4596 deep

[@squidontheside5496]

@@shoeboi4596 So they're space Brits?

[@kajmak64bit76]

@@squidontheside5496 except they don't ask for your loicense mate lol

[@BeanOfBean]

@John Doe very funny, it’s not like every other ideology or doctrine isn’t bad in its own way either

[@cloutdracula8401]

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

[@DaltonIzHere]

For example, the Joker Badge in Space Stage. If you use any cheats in the Space Stage, you get the Joker Badge which is a badge with a Jester Hat emblazoned on it with the description “You Cheated!” It doesn’t do anything else apart from just be a symbol that you used a cheat.

[@AmbassadorBreadloaf]

@@DaltonIzHere I recall it disabled your ability to get achievements on that save file.

[@seerai-42]

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

[@tayanasummers]

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.

[@29Naybla]

as far as I know, in the darkspore story they say set in the future of our galaxy

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

"Spiritual successor" is a weird term to use when referring to something in the same franchise anyway. Maxis never needed to make spiritual successors. They owned the rights and had the engine, and so could make actual sequels and spinoffs.

[@bspiekerman]

To my understanding, it was conceived after the wave of player complaints that the game was too cutesy and childish. They took the wrong lesson from that, IMO - players wanted a scientifically accurate evolution simulator, not an edgy hack-and-slash.

[@PrimalKevYT]

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.

[@slugfactory5113]

That's how I felt about bacxaber, I'd get in fights with that dude in /r/stevenuniverse like 5 years ago.

[@CanCur]

Its weird to know that in his spore page, he has over 2k buddies subscribed including me(curiouscancer).

[@iwantmyprivacy2217]

It was the humanoid feet, wasn't it? God...

[@aikou2886]

I have heard a lot about discord mods being creepy, weird or otherwise uncomfortable to be around. The fact that a lot of thm are confirmed pedos/predators or otherwise scumbags is disgusting.

[@teodortodorov4712]

@@CanCur added

[@BloomnBruin]

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

[@spingebill5987]

When I was a kid I wanted one of those so bad lol

[@stinky59]

i remember that!! i wanted one so so badly. i mean i have a resin printer now so i could just export a spore model and do it myself but it just wouldn’t feel the same as if it were the official thing. i wonder if anyone ever bought one of those? does anyone know what type of material they were printed with? are there any images of what the finished products look like, or if anyone maybe recorded an unboxing of one? did the figures come with any cool packaging or anything like that? id hope so considering how expensive they were. i want to knowwww lol

[@q-bert3414]

I've actually 3D printed a spore creature i made, once. i don't remember how i did it though, something with converting a file

[@watam8]

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.

[@gigastrike2]

Frutiger Aero

[@walmartiancheese4922]

skeuomorphic?

[@heroinlover9000]

yes! this is one of the big things every spore successor is missing. all of them have shitty soulless flat gui that makes me want to puke my guts out.

[@Jorvalt]

Yeah, there's actually a name for that. It's called skeuomorphism.

[@nixel1324]

The aesthetic is called Frutiger Aero, and there are some signs it's making a subtle comeback. Windows 11 has some gradients on its icons, and after all the flat redesigns of logos in the last few years, some are getting glossier and glassier again. There's a subreddit for the aesthetic too, and a great video about the style by a KZbinr called Undefined.

[@mr.potato]

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!

[@garfunkle8642]

It's a bit more different than that. Firstly you have to have wings equipped on your creature, and after you'll have to select another animal/object you can interact with, pause the game, jump twice (once with a normal jump, twice with the wings) and you've succeeded in pause boosting. The boost is so powerful that, if you combine it with the freecam glitch and a higher level wing/jump (along with maybe mating calls?), you can even touch planets! (You can't look down if you want to keep floating, you have to time it just right and you phase right through them, but it is pretty cool)

[@Twiphed]

@@garfunkle8642 Yeah, already saw a video of someone doing that! They used the mating call then jumped interrumpting it, it would glitch, and the fly would have no cooldown

[@gonderage]

omg i have huge nostalgia for this game, and seeing how the funny pause jump exploit, my favorite glitch in the game, wasnt covered made me a lil sad

[@fern0o]

and by using sprint you can go even faster, there’s a video called something along the lines of “best creature stage glitches” which goes into further explanation of this glitch

[@alienstar2088]

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.

[@gianfrancostocco8864]

the adapt to overcome idea is great, it would be more fun to replay the game

[@cinfdef]

Man I wouldn't care if the game was priced at 1000 dollars if it was as good as we hope it would be I'd buy it

[@theagn9234]

i say support Thrive at that rate since it’s basically going to be a realistic evolution simulator

[@gianfrancostocco8864]

@@theagn9234 i've been following Thrive since its beginnings and the developers did little to no progress of the game

[@aikou2886]

I think it would be great if actions from past stages had consecuences for the next one. For example, if you drove a lot of species to extinction as a creature there should be less animals available during the civilization stage and if you were reallly aggressive during the civilization stage then that should limot the technology you can have acces to later.

[@aikou2886]

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.

[@1980woodpixie]

They only disabled the servers for the disc version, steam and origin is still there

[@aikou2886]

@@1980woodpixie Oh, that's good to know. Thanks!

[@Trenchv1]

@@1980woodpixie yes but you are able to redeem an origin version if you have a valid spore disk key. thats what i did.

[@Trenchv1]

well that was also like 5 years ago so idk anymore tbh

[@Twinklethefox9022]

Oh I hope spore gets a remake for the recent consoles like the switch.

[@susssshitpostbasin5730]

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.

[@RoyalBlueXIII]

Oh interesting. Feel free to share any notable experiences you had while in the server!

[@vulturesalesman]

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.

[@sirtiberius1083]

Also press escape last to deselect the creature to go farther otherwise you turn around mid flight and slow down

[@therealsilvergunner1390]

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

[@RoyalBlueXIII]

Maybe I’ll do a shorter “part 2” video in the future to cover these topics. None of them were on the original 3 I based mine off of, but they seem interesting, thanks!

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

@@RoyalBlueXIII Is there a confirmation, or should we wait 12 years to assume you won't? lol

[@braykoe2401]

@@RoyalBlueXIII YES PART TWO LETS GOOOOO

[@destroyingheal3968]

@@RoyalBlueXIII please do

[@eliphas_vlka]

Can you explain them?

[@9999deany]

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

[@livedandletdie]

There has never been a game made that had children as it's target base. As that's illegal. However making games kid friendly and colorful isn't, and kids pestering their parents to buy stuff, isn't illegal either. But advertising to children is illegal.

[@universe8607]

​@@livedandletdienot in all countries tho

[@DeathbyProxy]

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

[@gavinthorpe5545]

I’d watch it

[@aikou2886]

I don't see why you couldn't do that. It's not like anyone on the internet owns the idea of a video or something.

[@georgeptolemy7260]

Do it

[@otaco9489]

Did you end up making it? I scoured your page. And nothin :(

[@DeathbyProxy]

@@otaco9489 ah I never got around to making it in the end ;u; but maybe I will sometime in the new year! Thanks for reminding me about this topic :)

[@Samrules888]

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.

[@tomaandkile]

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

[@JimmyJimmy-ho1zy]

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.

[@irtehmrepic]

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.

[@londoncintron680]

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.

[@tomasvolek6357]

had the same bug on gog version. saving and then loading game again fixes it

[@cacomelon4768]

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. 🤔

[@jackbyrley6441]

I was thinking this too, and if you evolved into the creature stage with the unused parts like normal then you could have more options to customize your creature.

[@amusedchortles835]

The oddly colored parts seen in the editor clip are some unobtainable ones, actually. I mean, I've never used the glitch before, but it seemed to work perfectly fine there. I'd assume it would just be like the cell parts in later stages, but for the initial one. You can most likely use and sell them, but no way to get them back (excluding mods or the undo button)

[@env0x]

"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."

[@YourNormalProgram]

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

[@carbunky6098]

Or after... 😰

[@Pepagg8]

Judging by the continents being in the same place probably not

[@beanface7408]

Some people think the Grox killed all humans, with Steve being the last one immortal and trapped in between universes.

[@shenziswan]

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.

[@shenziswan]

There were also a time when I befriended an Epic. What happened: one of the creatures I made ended up being a Rogue on my game, and when I befriended it I found an Epic of the same species. It wouldn't attack me nor my packmates despite roaring every time, and it would also wave at me when seeing me. Unfortunately I couldn't add it to my pack :(

[@shenziswan]

I once allied with the Grox, I found it quite easy despite the nuisance of being attacked every time I'd go to a solar system dominated by them to make quests. But once I was allied with them they wouldn't attack me anymore. On the other hand the entire galaxy would hate me for allying with them. Even the nations which I had a good relationship would become neutral again, or even hostile if I hadn't many good relationship points with them.

[@shenziswan]

One of my game's planet had a moon that was a Cube planet, and I remember being really happy about it because Cube planets are quite hard to find, at least for me, and there was one orbiting my planet.

[@ADudeWhoDo]

@@shenziswan bruh that happened to my brother too, I made a comment on this video about it and another glitch that I discovered.

[@TinyDragonG69]

Another thing that confuses me to this day is why we don’t see creatures from the tribal stage in the civilization stage, especially if we befriended all/most of them. Why is it only my species that made it past the tribal part? It makes my world seem like it lacks diversity. I can have different types of cities with different themes (religious, military, or capitalism) yet only one race as a whole runs the whole planet?

[@qqLucaqq]

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.

[@jmmip202]

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

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

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.

[@cube6794]

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.

[@based980]

Whats megabuild

[@based980]

Whats the hidden vehicle weapon

[@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill]

I’ve been deleting every single “UBD” thing in my game because I hate seeing that name pop up during creature stage.

[@cube6794]

@@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill i think i ended up actually making one because i just thought it meant anything spooky lol, had no idea about the affiliation

[@deejay9198]

I will sacrifice my first born child for spore

[@TheProky]

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

[@hiddentreasure2161]

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.

[@samroy9153]

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

[@bobus7633]

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.

[@_grandpa_]

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.

[@mathieuleader8601]

spore creatures scare the living daylights out of me

[@thalassaer4137]

@@BackUp-nx2de lmfao

[@cooltrainer_emma3952]

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!

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

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.

[@MikeSiegert]

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.

[@ratronald]

*gets groomed on the sporepedia*

[@JM99-Official]

holy shit rat ronald is here

[@alexanderchippel]

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.

[@Gongasoso]

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

[@Tieigo0]

Este jogo é outra coisa. Bem profundo e fascinante!

[@YujiUedaFan]

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.

[@wrightii5340]

*w h a t ?*

[@heroinlover9000]

wrightii5340 it's true... the government has been hiding it from us this whole time! SPORE 2 IS REAL!

[@maldambao6126]

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.

[@eax2010EA]

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?

[@jeanmouloude]

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

[@ShmellUL8r]

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

[@jackthejackass782]

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:

[@New-nq5gu]

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.

[@auburncrow4568]

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.

[@alexanderchippel]

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

[@1SLMusic]

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.

[@lets_summini]

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)

[@watermylove4530]

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

[@ladyalicent705]

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.

[@soulsidejourney2693]

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

[@runchis]

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

[@one_secular_sparrow]

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

[@DJMoffinz]

it would be super cool if they did did you ever find out?

[@one_secular_sparrow]

@@DJMoffinz Nah, I'm afraid it's long gone :( I'll just hold on to the memory

[@Spubbily01]

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

[@RoyalBlueXIII]

So am I, I think most people are a little self conscious about their voice tbh. But it gets easier the more you do it, practice make perfect. If you want to make a video, then I think you should just go ahead and make one. Even if you think it won't be perfect, the only way to improve is to start and continue making content. I mean, somehow I've managed to gain a following with my terrible voice lol. But that's just my perspective, everyone's got their pace, ideas, and confidence level. Whether or not you decide to make a video, I just want to say that I fully encourage you (and anyone else who may be reading this) to try making content if you feel like it may be something you enjoy. Thanks for watching!

[@bachmann436]

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

[@TKs3DPrints]

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.

[@antikovt]

Fun fact, afaik it's totally possible to unlock the Dr. Pepper parts past contract end by being an active creature creator on the Sporepedia and then just messaging the support a bunch of times. Idk if this works in 2022 still, but it's worth trying if anyone has time to do it (There's also a datapack to give the Dr. Pepper parts social abilities to make them playable)

[@alicev5496]

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.

[@firemaker1258]

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

[@kayagorzan]

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

[@samgerard3891]

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

[@Cristonimus]

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

[@theshadows1416]

finally a spore iceberg

[@adamverstegen2761]

At least in english

[@Dimitris4110]

This game and the whole concept had huge potential. To my knowledge, this concept of starting from an organism to dominating the galaxy was never attempted before by any game.

[@RedEzelt]

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 :]

[@TheChaolinArmy777]

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.

[@murilocorrea9360]

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

[@marcellocorrea7168]

Tu és meu irmão?

[@theagn9234]

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

[@Access.Denied]

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

[@Gamezilla899]

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)

[@trischkali700]

Thank you for this video! I‘ve been playing spore since pre release, when I was a little 8 years old stump, but I didn’t know so many things stated here! You never finish learning. We need a new game like spore, I don’t understand why nobody has made it yet. The concept is SO GREAT.

[@mareksicinski3726]

36:47 Oh the Humanity refers to the Hindenburg disaster 37:28 probably wouldn't have been that good though this is an in-joke type thing I'd say a lot of these entries are shuffled around different levels

[@Crim_Zen]

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.

[@DeathbyProxy]

It's real and was made by CantaloupeFish. Here's what they had to say about it in the description: "An emaciated cur with the face of a man, this poor creature's forlorn expression never changes. Once a neglected sideshow attraction at a now-abandoned circus, he wanders the streets of Ghost Town for reasons unknown. Entry for the Ghost Town 2010 contest."

[@unripetheberrby6283]

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...

[@Killerwale-hk4wy]

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.

[@iron_dave_qc5718]

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 :)

[@-Gous-]

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

[@howmanybabiesdidNestleKill]

You’re my fucking HERO

[@lukelcs8934]

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.

[@zicdragon]

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.

[@oceanfiregaming4085]

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

[@DavoOnline]

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

[@beanface7408]

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.

[@samiralawton7497]

I thought this was a really good video. I could tell you put in a lot of work, the curation was excellent. Really great job