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September 5, 2008 2:29 PM PDT

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"GonzagoGL" was the last gameplay prototype built during the Spore development process. It required a team of five full-time programmers and took nine months to build. This was dramatically different than most of the other prototypes, which took one or two people just weeks to design.

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Caption by Daniel Terdiman

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