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Spore demo at SXSW

Written on March 13, 2007 by Kyle

Will Wright lead the Keynote for SXSW (South by Southwest), an interactive festival held in Austin today. First up, we’ve got a tape of the demo:

Props to Zach for the video.

There’s more footage coming (of Will Wright talking), but we’ll have to wait for the HD processors to catch up. I’ll keep you posted!

  1. GoGoGooManGo's Gravatar GoGoGooManGo

    March 13th, 2007

    I love that kind of gameplay where you have a sudden realization that you are as big as the big thing you saw earlier in the game and spore looks like that (at least in tidepool).

  2. SlyDevil's Gravatar SlyDevil

    March 13th, 2007

    I love how Will fails at his own game… twice :-P This is a great video! Answers the “can you get out of your UFO” question :)

  3. Great Job's Gravatar Great Job

    March 14th, 2007

    Great job with the site… and amazing video footage… whens it coming out?? Can’t wait ..
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  5. ME's Gravatar ME

    March 14th, 2007

    Where’s the video!?!??!??! I want to see the goddamn vid!

  6. Jkhn's Gravatar Jkhn

    March 14th, 2007

    Digg killed the video

    part of it on youtube 6 min, someone on digg said there was a 13 min part so this isn’t all of it.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=KueIjw53B-A&mode=related&search=

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    March 14th, 2007

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  8. Dreamache's Gravatar Dreamache

    March 14th, 2007

    Interesting you guys hit front page digg, I submitted this same fucking story 6 hours prior to you guys.

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  10. Kyle's Gravatar Kyle

    March 14th, 2007

    Dreamache: Damn interesting, considering I posted this about 30 seconds after Zach finished uploading this, which was about a half hour after the demo finished.

  11. Erik Sagen's Gravatar Erik Sagen

    March 14th, 2007

    I cannot believe I missed this, ugh!

    Although, it was nice being there for the other events/panels, it just would’ve been nice to see this in person.

    I swear, every video I keep seeing makes me anticipate this more and more. I just hope it lives up to the hype, but that’s never an easy thing to do.

  12. Erik Sagen's Gravatar Erik Sagen

    March 14th, 2007

    Forgot to mention. The editor alone would be worth the price for me. I mean, I could see myself playing with that aspect of the game alone, and then to think there’s more to it? Wow, pretty neat.

  13. [...] All the folks at SXSW - if they knew where to be - got a look at Spore yesterday [Video]. This game is fucking amazing. If you don’t know anything about it, here are some highlights from the Wikipedia article: Spore will be a simulation that “ranges from the molecular phase to the galactic phase”.[16] It will consist of several long phases, each with its own style of play. [...]

  14. [...] Here is a link to video of the presentation. [...]

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  16. Live Television's Gravatar Live Television

    March 14th, 2007

    This is the first video I’ve seen that has really shown more detail on the spore level, most zoom by this stage but it’s the namesake - it’s called spore, not tribe (already taken) or space exploration.

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  21. Pessimist's Gravatar Pessimist

    March 15th, 2007

    Its amazing how the game has grown since it’s first public screening, though I foresee a VERY dark future when this hits the shelves. There will be YouTube videos of giant carnivore penises and god knows what else, you know what the greater mass of users is capable of :P …

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  23. Alex's Gravatar Alex

    March 15th, 2007

    I’m really aching for video of the whole talk - or hell, even audio - any updates on when that’s coming?

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  25. Devon's Gravatar Devon

    March 16th, 2007

    hey i got a question here. everything seems a lot more cartoony and looked a little buggier than the other 35 minute video. is the cartoonier look going to be part of the finished product? i know its not gold yet so of course it has bugs those are excused. but the cartoony thing just kind of seemed odder to me.

  26. Hold it Steady's Gravatar Hold it Steady

    March 16th, 2007

    Wow, get a tripod or learn how to not have Parkinson’s, ktnx…Spore is cool though!

  27. Venderman's Gravatar Venderman

    March 17th, 2007

    You got my hopes up to high with the title of this… I though Will had released a demo… But none the less I’m glad you could get your hands on some good footage, though it was amature; I cannot complain because I would myself do worse :P

  28. cyberen's Gravatar cyberen

    March 18th, 2007

    The space game looks nice, but the creature mode looks so kiddy! I liked the interface they showed at E3 2006 the best. This is too cluttered and kiddy!

  29. fez da stanza's Gravatar fez da stanza

    March 22nd, 2007

    the presentation graphics keep switching between that of the MS-Dos days and the Present style. And then somewhere between.. its quite annoying 0.o

  30. [...] Spore com certeza esse vai ser um dos jogos do ano. A idéia do jogo é fenomenal, chama tanto a atenção que o jogo não só está sendo muito comentado pela mídia especializada, como também já chama a atenção da mídia comum, o que para games que não envolvam violência é algo raríssimo. Além de ver esse vídeo aí, não deixe de conferir o video com comentários que está no blog Total Spore. Imperdível. [...]

  31. sired22's Gravatar sired22

    March 26th, 2007

    if im not mistaken the ‘dosbox’ was what he ws using for debuging and also to enter the cheats he was using

  32. agoose's Gravatar agoose

    April 10th, 2007

    the game looks brill
    does anyone know when a demo will be released, if one will be, because i can’t stand waiting.

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    April 11th, 2007

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  34. Dragonsowl's Gravatar Dragonsowl

    April 16th, 2007

    Sry dudes, from all that i read, there probebly won’t be a demo, unless ur a offical game tester.

    From what else i read It may come out September 2007

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    June 22nd, 2007

    U know what would suck? If all the stages (tide pool, space, etc.) were sold separately as expansion packs. This just came to mind because I was thinking of Will Wright’s many expansions of The Sims.

  38. garjian's Gravatar garjian

    June 25th, 2007

    errr, how old is this movie? this is the only one ive seen that looks like this and it kinda looks crap on this…

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    July 12th, 2007

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    July 16th, 2007

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  43. Matty V's Gravatar Matty V

    July 25th, 2007

    I hope it comes out in September 07, but I heard many other people saying that it isn’t gonna be out until late 2008. But I hope your right.

  44. Dragonsowl's Gravatar Dragonsowl

    August 2nd, 2007

    Yea, it probebly will come out agust 2008 form more resent sources. They keep changing the date, and pushing it back :(

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    August 4th, 2007

    I will play spore( some day )

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    August 6th, 2007

    This is gunna be so awesome. It’s cool that you can design your creatures

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    November 25th, 2007

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    June 19th, 2008

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