A Galaxy of Wonder and Danger Awaits

This is an upcoming fancomic based on Spore (2008) and its major spin-offs that takes place in a single connected universe.

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Hey! Do you like Spore Hero? For the Wii?

Do you wanna talk exclusively about Spore Hero for the Wii?

You like the Zarkhator? The Meejee? The Yacque?

There is a community just for that!

I’m not good at promoting things! Feel free to join if you want!

(The title says it’s about the Wii game but talking about the DS game is totally free game as well since both of these side games are pretty niche.)

Join Hit 2009 Video Game Spore Hero for the Wii • Community on Tumblr

For all the fellow lovers of Spore Hero, for the Wii (and the DS)

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“The Striklets are nasty little spiders, but they're not all that strong. As you get stronger, they'll be no tougher than a fly.”

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​I’m experimenting with textures right now. The left uses a paper texture and the right using the Procreate gloaming brush. Lemme know which looks better!

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Some pictures from a collection I was going to make based on my Lotisian species in Spore. I always thought of the late Cell Stage as our closest thing to the scrapped Aquatic Stage, so the second pic is me interpreting my species’ final form before evolving legs as a sort of fish.

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Drew some of The Guys (plus Lazulo and Yacque snuggles)

Sterling is an unofficial third brother, he’s from Hero Arena

The squiddo belongs to @nekopad-alpha ! We were in a whiteboard together.

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Oogie Headcanons let’s goooooo!

Oogies are a natural byproduct of the red and blue crystals from Spore Hero (Wii). There was a time when Zarkhator and his brother Sporeling were close; they were essentially demigods who brought life to yet-to-be-fertile planets or planets with a collapsing ecosystem. When the crystals worked in harmony, instead of summoning Critters, they would create Oogies that could rapid mutate into different species to fulfill ecological niches.

You know that purple heckin Oogie on the Creatures DS box art? That’s a default Oogie formed by crystals. They become more specialized and differentiated for their niches with time. They almost all share the same wormlike appearance with three “fins” along the back.

The yellow Oogies from the original Spore, in the canon of Xros Pollen, are a species that was “domesticated” after a bunch of them were abducted by a Scientist Empire. The scientists learned that the gene intended to create mutations within the Oogie species could be turned off and was able to profit from the discovery.

The dreaded “Oogie Fever” was an unusual illness that could only affect species not previously influenced by red and blue crystals; it no longer exists in the current day. The name Oogie Fever is now used when labeling any yet-unidentified illness, sort of in the same vein as using the name John Smith for an unidentified person. It totally doesn’t get confusing between different space stage species.

Sort of a continuation of the headcanons from the egg post on my other blog. All oogies can lay and fertilize eggs, in fact it is not uncommon for some Oogies to self-fertilize in situations where there are no viable partners. Self-fertilized clutches will range between 1-3 eggs while partner-fertilized clutches will range between 4-10.

Oogies of separate specialized niches can breed with each other. Depending on the degrees of specialization the offspring will be evenly split between resembling either parents…OR they will look like a mixture of both.

Specialization can be measured by the percentage of stabile DNA in an Oogie generation.

At 0-75% Stability, offspring will look more often than not like a mixture of both parents. At higher percentages they will be evenly split between either parent.

At 76-90% Stability, offspring will be usually be evenly split between matching one of either parent. At lower percentages it is still somewhat possible for offspring to look like a mixture of both parents.

At 91-100% The Oogie can officially be counted as a new species, it cannot breed with Oogies outside its own niche.

The main character Oogie and Little Oogie in Spore Creatures DS came from a mixed clutch. Whether the brown Oogies in the water are their siblings or were part of a separate clutch is undetermined.

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The full color version of my Spore Creatures DS egg collection

I made these as designs for a fancomic I want to make based on the Spore series of games, so this is my interpretation of how I think the eggs of individual species could look in-universe as opposed to the default egg we see when a creature respawns at a nest. Some of these might be more canon than the others.

Gif of the eggs bouncing underneath the read more, plus some egg headcanons

Headcanons:

Because evolution and such in the Spore universe is only tangentially similar to irl evolution, eggs in the Spore universe have a tendency to resemble the species that laid them, with some species rarely having adaptations in the egg stage for camouflage.

Oogies are a species that exist throughout the entire galaxy as different variations and can lay their eggs anywhere that the parent can reach. Oogie hatchlings have an especially unstable genetic code that allows them to survive the harshest environments within the first few hours of life; staying within these environments until the genetic code stabilizes is a common way for an oogie to develop natural immunities without having to evolve a new body part.

Additionally, egg-laying Oogies will often lay a large number of their eggs in communal clumps and reserve one or two eggs for their own keeping. These reserved eggs are hand-raised by their parents and the resulting hatchlings are more likely to resemble their parents compared to the “clump” eggs, which will typically evolve to look vastly different from their parents and siblings.

Striklets and Broogus both have eggs with a velvety texture.

Jungu eggs have thin, soft shells. They bury their eggs in loose dirt or wet mud so the hatchlings can be protected and dig themselves to the surface after emerging.

The Sweezel species has incredibly plain looking eggs compared to others because they are comparatively small and rock-shaped. It is common for Sweezel eggs to be picked up by Eyebungles and used as territory markers; the territorial Eyebungle will easily defend the rocks which form the lines of their territory. When baby Sweezels hatch, they are are strong enough to rapidly dash away to their family nest.

Prunebug eggs are made to blend into the dirt of their home planet and are often hidden near quarries or bushes. The surface of the egg can shimmer a green color in certain lighting that species other than Prunebug cannot see. Prunebug coloration is typically uniform with some slightly different shades of brown, but members with bright and unnatural colors typically are so because of the mineral composition that their eggs were surrounded by. These brightly colored members will often become Alphas of the pack.

The Gar’Skuther egg is not what Gar’Skuther hatched from, he is actually a severly mutated version of a certain in-game species. If Gar’Skuther went through the trouble to develop an egg form of the Skuther species, it would likely be based on his own appearance to signify his self-perceived superior form.

The Fyrisaba cannot always produce eggs with other Fyrisaba due to their nature as hybrid creations. Interestingly, they have more success either acting as OR receiving “genetic donors” from their component species, but this has a 50/50 chance of the resulting eggs becoming either a Fyrisaba or the other species.

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Isn’t it strange how much time changes us?

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Some expression drawings for my Lotisian species from Spore that I first created in middle school. After some heavy redesigning, some of their physical characteristics and colorations are partially inspired by Rana clamitans (aka the Green Frog)

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It’s 3 AM on a Sunday. Why did I make this?

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What if you (king of the deer men) and me (some guy that came out of the blue space rock) went to the Creature Beach together and we kissed

Hahaha no just kidding

…unless?

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The Sibling™ Experience

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They’re brothers

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It is Real Oogie Hours

Starring the protagonist, featuring Little Oogie and others!

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More Spore Hero art of The Bros™

I’m experimenting some with how I draw outlines and color in, especially with Zarkhator since I want to stay true to his in-game colors without making the outlines impossible to see.

And for your additional viewing pleasure…

Do you think they used to be close at some point?

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*chanting* Eggs Eggs Eggs Eggs Eggs!

((This is a redraw of a redraw of a redraw))

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“We are a perfectly normal family”

This was a sketch that ended up going too far, and by too far I mean I ended up coloring everybody in and adding a background

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Behold, a creacher