A planet within the galaxy that is unplayable
Glitches are unintended, unwanted effects encountered in a video game. Glitches can range from being helpful to a player, amusing, meaningless, a nuisance, or game-wrecking. Spore itself has many glitches, but most rarely happen. The console and mobile games don't have nearly as many glitches due to being far less complex.
The most common and easily repeatable are programming errors - like citizens wandering out of cities and getting stuck, or vehicles 'glued' together. Incompatible or damaged hardware can cause glitches, as they execute the game's code incorrectly. Malfunctioning software such as broken drivers can also cause glitches, as can the game data itself being corrupted.
Minor Glitches
A random glitchy planet (Minor Glitch)
Minor Glitches have little or no impact on gameplay and are often more amusing than harmful. It is usually possible to continue playing despite a minor glitch. This category contains many graphical glitches, such as the one that causes some mouths to not appear the same in the editor as outside of it.
Major Glitches
Major Glitches are ones that impede gameplay, make it impossible, or cause the game to freeze or crash. Some major glitches are so severe that they may necessitate deleting a save file or even reinstalling the game to get around. Examples of major glitches include graphical errors that blank out the gameplay screen making the game impossible to see, errors that cause a mission in Space Stage to become impossible to complete, glitches that cause inventory items to be deleted, and glitches that outright corrupt saved data or creations. Patches often address major glitches.
List of glitches
Due to the large amount of glitches recorded, the page has been split into several pages centered on glitches in specific games.
- Glitches in Spore
- List of general glitches in Spore
- List of editor glitches in Spore
- List of Cell Stage glitches in Spore
- List of Creature Stage glitches in Spore
- List of Tribal Stage glitches in Spore
- List of Civilization Stage glitches in Spore
- List of Space Stage glitches in Spore
- List of glitches in Spore Galactic Adventures
- List of glitches in Spore Creatures (Nintendo DS)
- List of glitches in Spore Hero
- List of glitches in Spore Hero Arena