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Spore Origins
Developer(s)	Babaroga, Tricky Software
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Designer(s)	Will Wright
Platform(s)	iPhone, iPod (5th generation iPod classic, 3rd and 4th generation iPod nano, 1st and 2nd generation iPod Touch)[1], N-Gage [2], Windows Mobile, Vu
Release date(s)	iPod: August 25, 2008[3] Mobile/iPhone: September 5, 2008[4] N-Gage: May 19[5]
Genre(s)	Arcade game
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: E (Everyone)

Spore Origins (aka: Spore Mobile) is the mobile device spin-off of Spore, and focuses on a single phase of the larger game's gameplay - the cell phase.

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot.

The simplified game allows players to try to survive as a multicellular organism in a tide pool, with the ability to upgrade its creature as with the main game. The basic gameplay is similar to flOw.^[6] 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, 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. Other devices also support touching the screen to move the creature. Certain iPods use the click wheel 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.^[6] 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 his or her organism in four categories: perception, attack, defense, and movement. The 3rd upgrade in each category is a "superpart".^[6] 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 had lockup issues which took place on the game’s initial loading screen on 1.0.x and 1.1.x software.^[7] The bugs were fixed and the game was re-released on August 31, 2008.

Reception

• Spore Origins Review
• Spore Origins iPhone/iPod Touch Review
• Spore Origins Mobile Review

See also

• Spore
• Spore Creatures
• flOw

References

External links

• Official site
• Official Spore site

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Spore Origins
Developer(s)	Babaroga
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Designer(s)	Will Wright
Release date(s)	Mobile  July 9, 2008 (AT&T) iPod  August 25, 2008 iPhone, Mobile  September 4, 2008
Genre(s)	Strategy
System(s)	Mobile, iPod, iPhone
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Series	Spore

Spore Origins is the mobile version of Spore, and focuses on a single phase of gameplay—the cell phase. The iPhone version takes advantage of the device's touch capabilities and 3-axis accelerometer.

Gameplay

Players to try to survive as a multicellular organism in a tide pool, with the ability to upgrade its creature as with the main game. The basic gameplay is similar to flOw.

Unlike Spore, the main game is roughly an hour long, and divided into 18 separate sections, with the player attacking and eating other organisms while avoiding being eaten by superior ones. Movement is achieved by pressing the phone keys in ordinal directions. Eating creatures is done by pressing the OK button; group-eating combos can be achieved with the OK button as well. A section is completed after the player eats a certain amount of DNA material from other life forms.

Each of the 18 sections is followed by the creature editor, in which the player may add an upgrade to his organism. With every 3 upgrades to the creature, a "superpart" is awarded.

Multiplayer

After players complete the single player game, they can engage in wireless battles with other players' completed creatures.

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