Spore Includes Youtube Integration
by Andrew Podolsky on February 13, 2008
Among the flurry of details released today about Spore, coming September 7th for the PC, one interesting tidbit might have been missed along the way. When you create your custom alien race, spaceship, or vehicles in Spore, you can upload videos of them to your Youtube account with just one click from inside Spore.
The creature customization is easily the most impressive thing about Spore, a game that seems very impressive throughout. While on tour at Maxis Studios, we caught a peek at alien designs that borrowed liberally from some other intellectual properties, from a spaceship that looked like the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, to aliens that looked like Spongebob Squarepants and the cast of South Park.
The ability to share these creations on Youtube with such ease should mean that we’ll see a lot of great customized characters and vehicles. Nearly any types of sci-fi or fantasy vehicles you can think to build, from X-Wings to the USS Enterprise, are possible in Spore. Sharing them online means that while lawyers trying to protect these IPs might get all worked up, there’s no way for other companies to police this content in the same way that City of Heroes was dinged for allowing users to create their own in-game X-Men.
We think this new feature is stunningly disruptive. If you thought that custom Miis were great, like the online videos of diminutive Hitlers and Kim Jong Ils, you haven’t seen anything yet.
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on February 14, 2008 9:07 pm
spore sucks, ok? I’ve seen it and it’s nothing to get excited about. stop lying to people saying it’s great - you’re head is in a Maxis spin.
on February 15, 2008 8:05 am
Incredible, but I don’t quite understand what will be posted - the creatures themselves, or videos of the creature. Not sure I’d really be interested in seeing videos of what others create, unless they’re really weird or resemble a famous character/celebrity. I’m not so sure it’s videos, seems like it would have a feature to share the character/creature itself - so others could use it.
Spore definitely looks amazing, I’m not so sure that they can really get sued for what users create - especially since users would be using the in-built tools to create replicas and its more parody then it is trademark or copyright infringement. And parody is protected.
on February 16, 2008 1:04 pm
@mastablista
You may not think that you’ll like the game,but that doesn’t mean it sucks. In my opinion this will be one of the best games of the decade.
on February 20, 2008 10:22 am
you fail to understand. I tried it. I “played” it. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I do. It sucks. K?
on February 23, 2008 9:49 am
suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure, mistablista…
on February 26, 2008 6:11 pm
ohhhh, so you “played” it?! Well that changes EEEEVERYTHING!.. Here I was thinking Spore would be a great game, but now that I’ve read Mistablista’s incredible in-depth review of the game, I’m definately convinced otherwise… What was I thinking?! What were we ALL thinking? OBVIOUSLY he’s more then qualified to tell us what we do and do not like, so I have hereby changed my oppinion and agree that Spore does indeed suck… Because he said so… Because he played it… *rolls his eyes*
on February 26, 2008 8:35 pm
Guys, if you are going to argue, at least do it with style. Crush the goomba and upload your own avatar.
on February 27, 2008 9:15 am
ha ha you win the comments. spore still sucks though.
on April 17, 2008 9:01 am
Since that comment was based on so much evidence and reasoning, I find it hard to disagree.