Over the last couple of weeks ever more Spore prototypes have been released through the official Spore page. Since our last update on those the following prototypes were added to the line-up:

• GonzagoGL: an OpenGL-based prototype of the Spore Creature game.
• Waterboy: a fluid dynamics simulator designed to explore the behavior of large bodies of water on uneven terrain.
• NetCity: a programmable simulator used to explore the evolution of complex behaviour from simple components.
• Gaslight simulates a process called stochastic, self-propagating star formation (SSPSF.)
• Crowd: a SimCity 4 prototype developed by the Spore prototyping team. MaxisCactus informed us that Maxis updated the Crowd prototype in response to community feedback since its initial release.
• SPUG: a tunable gameplay prototype for the Creature level of Spore.
• Space: a gameplay prototype of the Space level of Spore.

Be sure to check out toroca’s excellent guide to terraforming in the Space prototype.