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{{Infobox video game
| title = Spore Origins
| image = Sporemobile.jpg
| developer = Babaroga, Tricky Software
| publisher = [[Company:Electronic Arts|Electronic Arts]]
| producer = Andreja Djokovic
| designer = 
| composer = Jason Coffman
| genre = [[Software:Action game|Action]]
| series = 
|released = '''iPod''':<br>August 25, 2008<ref name="ipodrel">{{cite web|url=http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/25/eas-spore-arrives-for-ipod-first/|title=EA's Spore Arrives For iPod First|work=MacRumors.com|date=25 August 2008 }}</ref><br>'''Mobile/iPhone''':<br>September 5, 2008<ref name="phonerel">{{cite web|url=http://investor.ea.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=88189&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1194127&highlight=|title=EA Mobile Announces More iPhone Games in Development: MONOPOLY, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 and Need for Speed Undercover|work=[[Company:Electronic Arts|Electronic Arts]]|date=2008-09-05}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br>'''N-Gage''':<br>May 19, 2009
| platforms = [[Engineering:IPhone|iPhone]], [[Engineering:IPod|iPod]] (5th generation iPod classic, 3rd and 4th generation iPod nano, 1st and 2nd generation [[Engineering:IPod Touch|iPod Touch]]),<ref name="offsite">{{cite web|url=http://www.eamobile.com/Web/ipod-game/sim-strategy/spore|title=Official ''Spore Origins'' site|work=[[Company:Electronic Arts|Electronic Arts]]|access-date=2008-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908215346/http://www.eamobile.com/Web/ipod-game/sim-strategy/spore|archive-date=2008-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref> N-Gage,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.n-gage.com/archive/spore-origins-for-n-gage/ |title=Spore Origins for N-Gage |publisher=N-Gage blog |access-date=2008-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923120045/http://blog.n-gage.com/archive/spore-origins-for-n-gage/ |archive-date=September 23, 2008 }}</ref> [[Software:Windows Mobile|Windows Mobile]], [[Engineering:LG Vu|Vu]]
| modes = Single player, [[Software:Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
}}

'''''Spore Origins''''' (also known as '''''Spore Mobile''''') is the mobile device [[Engineering:Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] of ''[[Software:Spore (2008 video game)|Spore]]'', and focuses on a single phase of the larger game's gameplay - the cell phase.

==Gameplay==
[[Image:Spore-mobile.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Gameplay screenshot.]]
The simplified game allows players to try to survive as a [[Biology:Multicellular organism|multicellular organism]] in a [[Earth:Tide pool|tide pool]], with the ability to upgrade its creature as with the main game. The basic gameplay is similar to ''[[Software:Flow (video game)|Flow]]''.<ref name=1uppre>[http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3166260 1Up ''Spore Mobile'' preview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143215/http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3166260 |date=2011-06-04 }}</ref> ''Flow'' designer Jenova Chen attributed Will Wright's first demo of ''Spore'' as inspiration.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}}

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. Other devices also support touching the screen to move the creature. Certain iPod devices 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.<ref name="1uppre"/> 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".<ref name="1uppre"/> 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.<ref name="ipodbug">{{cite web|url=http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/lockup-bug-hits-eas-ipod-game-spore-origins/15082|title=Lockup bug hits EA iPod game Spore Origins|author=Charles Starrett|work=iLounge|date=2008-08-26|access-date=2008-08-26|archive-date=2008-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901002613/http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/lockup-bug-hits-eas-ipod-game-spore-origins/15082|url-status=dead}}</ref> The bugs were fixed and the game was re-released on August 31, 2008.

==Reception==
*[http://www.mobilgamer.cz/recenze/119-spore-mobile/ Spore Origins Mobile Review]

==Awards==
During the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awarded ''Spore Origins'' with "Cellular Game of the Year".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.interactive.org/games/video_game_details.asp?idAward=2009&idGame=993 |title=D.I.C.E. Awards By Video Game Details Spore Origins |publisher=Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences |website=interactive.org |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
*''[[Software:Flow (video game)|flOw]]''

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080911001012/http://www.eamobile.com/Web/mobile-game/spore Official site]
*[http://www.spore.com Official ''Spore'' site]

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