Sagan 4: These people played Spore by hand for 17 years??

Sagan 4 is a really old art game--and I mean really old!--started by Hydromancerx in 2006. If you've heard his name before, he was involved in the early Spore wiki and his art was also shown off by Will Wright at E3, I think. He and his friends wanted to play Spore, but it wouldn't come out for 2 years, so they decided to make an art game where they played creature stage the way they imagined it by hand with art and writing. More people joined in over the years, and they never stopped even after the game came out--in fact, they got a wave of new members afterwards!

The community is still active today, and you can see all 5600+ species that have been created on the wiki, there's a ton of cool art and lore: alpha.sagan4.org/wiki/Main_Page