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==Community== ''Spore's'' user community functionality includes a feature that is part of an agreement with YouTube granting players the ability to upload directly from within the game a YouTube video of their creatures' activity, and EA's creation of "[http://youtube.com/spore The Spore YouTube Channel]", which will showcase the most popular videos created this way. In addition, some user-created content will be highlighted by Maxis at the official ''Spore'' site, and earn badges of recognition. One of ''Spore's'' most social features is the ''Sporecast'', an RSS feed that players can use to subscribe to the creations of any specific ''Spore'' player, allowing them to track their creations. There is a toggle which allows the player to restrict what downloadable content will be allowed; choices include: "no user generated content", "official Maxis-approved content", "downloadable friend content", and "all user-created content". Players can also ban any content in-game, at any time, and Maxis monitors content with notable numbers of player bans. ===Spore API=== Spore has also released an API to allow developers to access data about player activity, the content they produce and their interactions with each other. The Spore API is a collection of RESTful public web services that return data in XML format. In April 2009, the results of the Spore API Contest was concluded with winners building interactive visualizations, games, mobile applications and content navigation tools. The API also includes a Developers forum for people wishing to use all the creations people have made to create applications. ===Interplay=== The game is referred to as a "massively single-player online game" and "asynchronous sharing". Simultaneous multi-player gaming is not a feature of ''Spore''. The content that the player can create is uploaded automatically to a central database, catalogued and rated for quality (based on how many users have downloaded the object or creature in question), and then re-distributed to populate other players' games. The data transmitted is very small β only a couple of [[kilobyte]]s per item transmitted - due to procedural generation of material. Via the in-game "MySpore Page", players receive statistics of how their creatures are faring in other players' games, which has been referred to as the "alternate realities of the ''Spore'' metaverse". The game reports to the player on how other players have interacted with him or her. For example, the game reports how many times other players have allied with the player's species. The personalities of user-created species are dependent on how the user played them. ===Sporepedia=== The ''Sporepedia'' keeps track of nearly every gameplay experience, including the evolution of a creature by graphically displaying a timeline which shows how the creature incrementally changed over the eons; it also keeps track of the creature's achievements, both noteworthy and dubious, as a species. The ''Sporepedia'' also keeps track of all the creatures, planets, vehicles and other content the player encounters over the course of a game. Players can upload their creations to Spore.com to be viewed by the public at the ''Sporepedia'' website. The ever-growing list of creations made by players is past the 100 million mark so far.
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