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I decided to publish the adventure I was working on. It involves some walking, and I’m sure it could be better if I worked on it longer, but I would very much like to know whether its playable. So see if you like it.

I have had the chance to play a little more, and I absolutely love crafting these worlds! I hope you’ll like them. I fear I need a lot more time to get it the way I want it, but here is an updated view of the first scene, to show you what I’m working on.

And I love using all the wonderful stuff that has been made, look at the wonderful building made by Slartibartfast38… and the adorable captain was made by Himmelslaub, to my dismay it is now listed as mine, because I used it as my captain.

Did you try to enroll in the Beta but weren’t selected? Did you hope you maybe had a second chance during other sites’ Beta frenzies but were you disappointed? Maybe Simphoni.net can help! We have been given a limited number of Beta-keys by our good friends at Monte Cristo. We plan to give those keys to people whose expertise in the field of city builders we think can be of great value to make Cities XL the best it can be for the community as a whole. For details on how to enroll, please visit the Simphoni Forums.

This week we talk about feedback regarding the previous episode of the show, progress with the podcast answering machine, SIMphoni merchandising, SIMphoni forum changes, an in depth review of The Sims 3 and wacky weather.

Click here to listen to episode 25 (46.8 MB, 51:08, mp3).

New to the SIMphoni Podcast? Click here to listen to the promo and some clips from previous episodes of the podcast (4.1 MB, 4:26, mp3).

If anyone has questions or comments, please feel free to post them here or send us an email to podcast@simphoni.net. This episode was produced, recorded and edited by me. It features Trixin as host and Rexer as co-host. Enjoy and stay tuned for episode 26, airing July 7th!

Simprograms found us a great Adventure made by the incredible Fotosynthesis: MarioKart! Remember, he was one of the guys who Maxis flew in to get a taste of this expansion. Judging by this Adventure, I’d say that was a smart investment.
If you already have Spore:GA you can download the adventure here.

The new Galaxy

More after the break…

The new Menu

Loading my first Adventure

The first screen, work in progress…

I can’t show too much, I like to save some surprises for when you play it.

Just a quick word to tell you that I’m still alive, and EA has been kind enough to send me a copy of Spore: Galactic Adventures. I’ll try to create some time this weekend to tell you about my first impressions. And I’ll add pictures…

Slowly but surely the Sporepedia is populated with Adventures. Sporedum found the following two, both made by the one and only MaxisCactus, both looking promising…

This month the TED site features another inspiring talk by Robert Full. The subject of is talk is the Gecko, which most of you know has amazing feet. Feet that are now copied by engineers, and used in cute little wall-climbing robots. But the Gecko uses it tail in an amazing set of ways too.

Apparently Industrygamers, formerly known as GameDaily, have interviewed Will Wright a while ago and decided to finally publish the whole interview a few days back. It main focus is on the Stupid Fun Club and the arrangement made with EA to stay working on Spore too. You can find the interview here.

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