Will Wright (designer of The Sims) gave a demonstration of Spore’s space exploration phase at NASA Ames Research Center. The footage of the game is really neat, but there’s not a lot that hasn’t been seen elsewhere already. More interesting to me was the Q&A session at the end of the clip, where he discusses design decisions, exporting creatures to a 3D printer, and balancing realism with making the game fun to play.

The video is also up at Gametrailers.com.