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Spore
A five-stage game in which the player guides a species from cell to galactic empire, building its body, vehicles, and buildings in part-based editors whose creations are shared automatically through the Sporepedia.
core loop
eat to earn DNA points -> edit body parts to change abilities -> befriend or fight other species -> stage completes and grants consequence traits -> next stage changes the rules -> colonize and terraform planets -> creations upload to the Sporepedia and populate other players' galaxies
design notes
Spore's evolution is player design rather than selection: body parts bought with DNA points set speed, attack, and social abilities directly, and nothing is inherited by differential survival. Its distinctive system is the part-based editors (18 share one interface) whose creations are stored as compact descriptions of a few kilobytes and reconstructed procedurally, which let Maxis upload every creation and redistribute them as the inhabitants of other players' galaxies (over 100 million by May 2009). Each of the five stages swaps in a different genre's rules, and play style in each stage assigns consequence traits that carry forward.
relations
8 stored edgesContent sharing
Every creation uploads automatically to the Sporepedia and is redistributed to populate other players' worlds, so other players' designs fill the galaxy without manual import.
Milestone unlocks
Each stage ends at a progress threshold and hands the species to a new rule set (cell, creature, tribal, civilization, space), with three consequence traits awarded from how aggressive or social the player was.
Modular assembly
Creature, building, and vehicle editors assemble parts such as mouths, legs, and arms whose choice sets abilities, diet options, and stats; textures and animation are applied procedurally to the assembled topology.
Direct avatar control
The player directly steers the cell, the creature, and later a spaceship.
Faction diplomacy
Creature-stage species, tribes, nations, and space empires such as the Grox can be befriended through social actions or conquered.
Terraforming
In the space stage rocky planets can be terraformed, their ecosystems changed, and features such as mountains and lakes added.
Unit commands
Tribal and civilization stages switch to commanding up to 12 tribe members, then vehicles and cities.