#beta spore

[chronomaza]

OK, NOW for the videos I found; they were all FLC, so I converted them to gif, since there was no audio anyways. Sorry if some of these are VERY low res- they were already, but I had to convert them to like 3 different formats back and forth thanks to file size limits and general paywalled bullshit.

Some of this is DEFINITELY beta footage

There's more of these in the comic creator, but I can't find a gif compressor that isn't a pain in the ass and converting them to a small mp4 and back only makes the gifs bigger for some stupid reason. There's also another video I couldn't find in the files that showed a creature doing a test drive emote in the creature stage.

Some of this program's files just- do not show up in the folders when they do for my friend. I'll have to try and properly get some of it some other time, I'm far too tired for this nonsense right now. I might have to uninstall adobe air for half the stuff I'm trying to do to even work properly. If you want to rip files from this yourself, DO IT BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE GAME.

[grox-empire]

SO obsessed with the way the willosaur moves in this spore beta footage. It's like. An actual predatory animal. I cannot stop rewatching this clip it's so fucking dynamic and nice I wish they had animations like this in the actual game so bad

[cruisingheightswithdragons]

In which one super aggressive alien species meets another super aggressive alien species

[creature-keeper]

Spore 2006 full size screenshots

[valla-chan]

Hmmm....

[cordycep-creations]

Hello Tumblr! Come listen to me rant about my beta owl au? Ive been working on it in my head for a while. Here's some details on the main cast-

Part one: Hexside Crew

Luz/Lucía Noceda

Now 17 ish, Luz never found the boiling isles as a child. Instead she stayed in Gravesfield, unable to move on from her father's death. Her mother has been able to move on though, leaving Luz very uncomfortable with her mother's new boyfriend, as well as her own much younger step-brother-to-be. But the boiling isles are still coming for her- and a lot sooner than she could ever expect.

Amity/Amelia Blight

With the twins now outcast from the family, Amity is under intense pressure as the last Blight still welcome in the manor. With her parents' pressure for her to join the emperor's coven or the family business, she's begun to absorb a lot of their stiff, perfectionist attitude. She's also been very involved in The Emperor's Coven, tightly knit with her mentor Lilith.

Augustus Porter

Inspired by a couple of other fics I've read, Augustus is an agent of chaos. Actor, shape-shifter, artist and illusionist. They become closely connected to the illusionist graveyard, finding connection to the undead magic and spirits. He also has a very complicated history with Skara, who we will get to after...

Willow Park

She's still best friends with Augustus, of course. She found her own way to the plant track and has given herself a very different reputation over the years. Harder, not taking anyone's shit but still more than willing to kill or die to protect her friends. Assigned male at birth, but with she/her pronouns and some gender fuckery she doesn't feel like she needs to explain to anyone. Her plant magic has become scarily powerful at times, and she has a mysterious ability to cast spells without using a circle....

Skara Dubal

Skara gets a lot more attention in this AU, just for being one of my favorite little blorbos lol. She's about 17 like the rest of the cast (though Augustus is still a year younger.) She's a performer, constantly needing all eyes on her as much as possible. She's running around trying to see everything, to know everyone and to do it all at once. Shes trying to find her way through her art and her music, as well as her tumultuous, on/off relationship with Boscha Barron.

Again, shoutout to another au writer for the last name, though I don't remember specifically where I got it :(

One more bonus character under the cut, but he comes with some massive spoilers for the AU. It is....

Hunter Belos

At 18 years old, one year above the rest of the rest of the cast, we now have a very different version of Hunter Belos Whittebane. With mysteriously much longer hair... a mask of a Goldfinch instead of an owl..... and a strange British accent that seems very out of place in the boiling isles.

Hunter is no longer a grimwalker of Caleb's dead brother Philip. Now he's a clone of Philip himself, with Caleb sitting under the throne and name of Emperor Belos.

[morso-online]

Watching the GDC 2005 Spore presentation because I'm a self-hating autistic person and I cannot STOP THINKING about how he starts off in the ocean

Swimming around in the murky depths in a way that terrifies me so. In an environment that should have AT LEAST been part of an expansion pack post-release

And then mister Will Wright puts legs on that shit....

AND THEN WALKS OUT OF THE OCEAN INTO THE REGULAR CREATURE STAGE???? Like it's fucking nothing. The game should not have been shipped without this.

[deploygirlfriend]

played spore because i was depressed, ended up doing this

[zomboney]

every single day I mourn how wicked swag spore couldve been if EA didn't have anything to do with it

[chronomaza]

Now for some very minor assets, tools and props

these four are VERY interesting. The first two are supposed to be BEDS and are called "rest", supposedly upgrades of each other. The third is supposedly an earlier upgrade of the healing rods tent, which looks like it had a different use before and served as healing in general. And the 4th is a tombstone for the chieftain when they die, which is very sweet, and it's a shame it didn't make it into the final.

This was called "sacrifice altar" in the files

I think this basically confirms upgrades were meant to be a thing in tribal stage

This last one is called "tree beater", for beating trees, I assume.

that's it for the tools!

[grox-empire]

Man so many of the notes on that willosaur post I made boil down to "I wish the game was like this" or "I'm so dissapointed with the final product" and as someone who's special interest is spore it's weirdly disheartening... While I do think a lot of beta content was objectively better than what we got I still think the game we got is a fucking masterpiece and that nothing like it will ever be done ever again

[l-1-z-a]

Spore Beta Demonstration @ E3 2006 by Will Wright

[onemillionfurries]

Hey check out this Spore trailer I just found! It's made a lot closer to the final release of the game, but it's still quite obviously differs significantly. The creature creation seems to be finalized, but the cell stage has a few cells in it that aren't anywhere in the final game!

[valla-chan]

Spore

[sinisterrrrrrrr]

3D renders of a beta version of alderbrook from the spore comic book creator files. the spotty skinpaint isn't in the final game at all afaik & the d'orca mouth looks slightly different to the final version. compare to the version of alderbrook in the final game: