August 22, a group of Spore webmasters and staff was invited to the EA Maxis Emeryville Studio in the San Francisco Bay, in California. It was an amazing experience full of nothing but Spore talk. It was great to finally put faces to those I have known online, many of them for years. Aside from trip details, I want to get right down to the game itself. After a tour of the studio we landed in the ‘garage’ with Spore Producer, Caryl Shaw. Caryl showed us a walkthrough of the game, primarily the space phase, where we could ask questions along the way. Here are some key points I scribbled down..

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Another video has arisen from a demo with Jenna Chalmers. This time it was YourSpore.de who filmed it. This video also starts with a presentation of the timeline, but this time also includes space stage footage!

Thanks to cycguy101 on the forums for this find!