This is part 1 of the Spore speed run, done in 9 segments. Creature stage and all the other stages will be coming soon.
The time starts when the stage is finished loading, so the brief pause I did at the beginning of the run counts towards the time. Also, the final time doesn't include the time between segments, so basically, the time only tracks the gameplay time (with a few exceptions). But, the final time doesn't include save penalty (0.5 seconds added for each segment excluding the first one), including save penalty, the final time would be a 3:51.
Spore is a very difficult game to speedrun because of it's RNG and the save system. Due to this, some segments take up to 50 attempts to get a good time on.