Maxis veteran Thomas Vu sat down with Play to answer a few questions about Spore. We seem to get a definite answer regarding what platform versions are planned; PC, Apple Macintosh, Nintendo DS, and Mobile Cell phones. Furthermore here’s what he has to say about the ending:

This may surprise Maxis fans, but Spore does have an ending, though it is probably not what you’d expect. Players can continue playing past the end if they choose to and continue to explore the hundreds of thousands of planets that populate the Spore galaxy. We are not ready to announce what the end of the game will be, but trust that it will take a dedicated player some time to complete the game.

Don’t forget to stop by our YouTube Channel now and then. There are some more videos there apart from what we delivered earlier this week.

Here’s two videos from Yuri’s Night showing the spaceship editor and some action in the space phase.

Yuri’s Night is an “annual worldwide party to celebrate Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space - as well as to promote space exploration”.

Here’s a short video of the creature editor featuring a funky creature. Enjoy!

See various Maxis members tell us a little about of their work on Spore and in general.

A new video of Will Wright demoing Spore has popped up on youtube. It’s a 5 minute talk Will gave at Gadgetoff 2007 in New York. In it, Will creates a new creature, walks around a very interesting looking forest and encounters a HUGE creature! The game is looking even more polished and I’m dying to get my hands on it.

Check out the video

SIGGRAPH, an annual conference attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals, has recently been held in San Diego and Spore developers were in attendance where they delivered four seminars detailing various technical aspects of Spore’s development. Videos of the talks have been made available and, besides providing some insight into the inner workings of Spore’s procedural elements, the videos also showcase a few developer tools and, perhaps most interesting, the creature, building, and vehicle editors. Definitely worth a look, even if only to scrub past the boring technical bits and get a look at the editors in action.

Creating Spherical Worlds
Planet generation scripts — Demo near the middle.

Player Driven Textures
Procedural Texturing — Some screenshots, As well as creature and building editor near middle.

Player Deformable Objects
Metaballs and Rigblocks — Creature and Vehicle editor.

Fast Object Distribution
Halton Sequences and populating worlds — Mostly technical, no demo.

Along with the interview posted below IGN brings us a new promotional trailer from EA and six new screenshots of Spore. Everything is looking more refined than ever. It seems that the interface has changed slightly along with brighter looking graphics. The video takes us on complete tour of the different phases; watch it below.

Don’t forget that we have a YouTube channel for your convenience with Spore videos.

Some new videos of Spore were recently shown at the GDC and they are now online! In each of the video’s we get some new footage of the editors. The Tide Pool one looks to have got some major upgrades since we last saw it.

-Tide Pool Phase
-Creature Phase
-Tribal Phase
-Civilization Phase
-Space Phase

Thanks go out to Spores Illustrated for the links.

Will Wright and his Maxoid compadres’ presentation from DICE 2007 is now up on YouTube. Enjoy!

DICE 2007 Part 1
DICE 2007 Part 2
DICE 2007 Part 3
DICE 2007 Part 4
DICE 2007 Part 5
DICE 2007 Part 6
DICE 2007 Part 7

Here’s a short flic from X|Media|Lab Singapore 2006 presented by Caryl Shaw who is the Pollinated Content Producer of Spore for Maxis.

Edit: Please see this post.