Flying is in? And Much More | Spore Demo | Spore News

Spore was demo’ed at the San Francisco Apple Store the other day, and a Spore fan was there to report what was going on. We’ve picked out some of the goodies.

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Q. Will creating buildings in the Tribal phase be free form like the Civ phase?
A. No, that was a feature we would have like to included but did not have enough time/resources to devote to it. Things like that will hopefully come later in the games lifespan, things like the Flora editor which we hope to have out sometime after release.

Q. Can you direct your vehicles in civ stage ?
A. Yes, Land/Air/Water vehicles are you ‘units’ in the civ phase. you no longer control your creature directly.

Q. Is the macro management of trading routes (like you could see in the overview video) also possible in space phase ? (like you zoom out in interstellar level and you can see all these routes that your alliance can take)
A. I don’t know if there will be trade ‘routes’ so to speak but Will did mention that one of the metagames in the space phase you could task yourself with was being a space trader.

Oh! and one other thing, he demoed flying, and it is awesome. I didn’t see a fatigue bar of any type at all and he seemed to stay airborne by just clicking a key of some kind repeatedly.

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Videos from this event can be found here and here.