''Spore Origins'' (also known as ''Spore Mobile'') is the
mobile device
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spin-off of ''
Spore'', and focuses on a single phase of the larger game's gameplay - the cell phase.
Gameplay
The simplified game allows players to try to survive as a
multicellular organism in a
tide pool
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Many tide pool habitats are home to especially adaptable animals that ...
, with the ability to upgrade its creature as with the main game. The basic gameplay is similar to ''
Flow''.
[1Up ''Spore Mobile'' preview]
''Flow'' designer
Jenova Chen attributed
Will Wright's first demo of ''Spore'' as inspiration.
Unlike the full version of ''Spore'', the main game is roughly an hour long, and divided into 18 separate sections, or 30 sections in the iPhone and iPod touch version, with the player attacking and eating other organisms while avoiding being eaten by superior ones.
On some devices, movement is achieved by pressing the phone keys in
ordinal directions
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. Other devices also support touching the screen to move the creature. Certain iPod devices use the
click wheel
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as an input method, and users of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPod Nano may use the accelerometer. Creatures are eaten by attacking with the mouth (if the creature has one); group-eating combos can be achieved with the OK button or center button on the wheel.
A section is completed after the player eats a certain amount of DNA material from other life forms.
Every three levels is followed by the creature editor, in which the player may add an upgrade to their organism in four categories: perception, attack, defense, and movement. The 3rd upgrade in each category is a "superpart".
The player also unlocks a mode called "Survival", in which the player is on a single screen collecting pellets while dodging creatures.
Issues
The
iPod classic
The iPod Classic (stylized and marketed as iPod classic and formerly iPod Video or just iPod) is a discontinued portable media player created and formerly marketed by Apple Inc.
There were six generations of the iPod Classic, as well as a sp ...
had lockup issues which took place on the game's initial loading screen on 1.0.x and 1.1.x software.
The bugs were fixed and the game was re-released on August 31, 2008.
Reception
Spore Origins iPhone/iPod Touch ReviewNote: This link now leads to spam.
Spore Origins Mobile Review
See also
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flOw''
References
External links
Official siteOfficial ''Spore'' site
{{Sim series
2008 video games
Biological simulation video games
Electronic Arts games
IOS games
IPod games
Maxis Sim games
Mobile games
N-Gage service games
Spore (2008 video game)
Windows Mobile Professional games
Video games developed in the United States