Spore coming to handhelds?

By Paul Loughrey Published 1 March, 2006

Job ad seems to suggest so.

Sims creator Will Wright's latest project, Spore, may be spreading to handheld consoles, according to a new job listing that's appeared on GameDev.net.

According to the ad, Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced handheld designer who'll be responsible for "designing, creating and maintaining game systems and content for Spore handheld titles."

And there we were thinking Spore would be a PC exclusive. Okay, so there's long been a rumour it's in development for Xbox 360 too, but this is the first we've heard of a handheld version.

Spore tasks you with creating your very own species, evolving a single cell organism into an entire race that will eventually set out to conquer new planets. Little more has been revealed of the title since its surprise unveiling at last year's Game Developer Conference and a behind-closed-doors introduction to the game at E3, and there's still no word of a release date as yet.

As for just which handhelds it'll appear on - that's still anyone's guess...

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  • Kiigan #1 6 years ago

    From that job listing, I just got the impression that there'd be a mobile phone / J2ME component to the standard PC game - e.g. monitoring your lifeform's success once released into the wild online etc.

    Sounds great in principle, but in practise no one will bother.

  • ram #2 6 years ago

    let me guess, Kiigan you're an optimist?

  • Eldritch #3 6 years ago

    The only game I look forward to this year.

  • JKimbley #4 6 years ago

    Forget Spore when is Sim City 5 coming out!

  • freedumb #5 6 years ago

    Not wishing to start an evolution vs creation debate (here), I can't get over this mindblock:

    How did the sincgle cell get there in the first place? Spontaneous generation?

  • Schwabing #6 6 years ago

    just a bit of c++ ex nihilo magic :-)

  • bunglebonce #7 6 years ago

    Not wishing to start an evolution vs creation debate (here), I can't get over this mindblock:

    How did the sincgle cell get there in the first place? Spontaneous generation?

    Creationists teh suxx0r ;)

    With the procedural content development, it doesn't seem that system horsepower will be much of a problem. The stylus of the DS could be a natural replacement for the mouse, but I can see EA wanting the game to be published on both of the major handhelds.

  • smoison #8 6 years ago

    "How did the sincgle cell get there in the first place? Spontaneous generation?"



    HAHAHAHAHAHA Science N00B

  • kangarootoo #9 6 years ago

    Ask Emma, she knows all about this sort of thing. And just look how happy science makes her.

    http://www.phoenixexotics.org/siteimages/MonkeyEmmaSmiling.jpg

  • MightyPenguin #10 6 years ago

    I think the general idea is that a bunch of chemicals got together in a big pool and threw a party. Because it was a wild drunken party there was lots of unprotected sex going on. We're talking ORGIES here, people. So one of the female chemicals became pregnant. Or merged with another chemical. Whatever. Eventually, a baby proto-cell was born. A proto-cell being something in between a cell and gloop.

  • afray #11 6 years ago

    Simple amino acid molocules, drifting together and apart again, until eventually one molocule became, through simple chemical processes, self-replicating (at this point it may or may not have been DNA).

    The self-replicating molocule evolved just like any other life form until it had a cell wall to protect it, and protien molcules inside to regulate its "body."

    From then on it just kept adding improvements through the process of natural selection until you reach single-cell organisms that could be called alive.

    But we're talking billions of years here to get that far.

  • kangarootoo #12 6 years ago

    "But we're talking billions of years here to get that far"

    Emma the monkey could draw you a crayon sketch of a DNA strand in just a few minutes. No competition really.

  • Enki #13 6 years ago

    Put it on the DS and i'll explode with glee. Just walking near people would get you new content :D

  • reality_cheque #14 6 years ago

    @afray: I think it was last weeks New Scientist that published an article saying there probably wasn't ever a pool of amino acids, due to the temperature being wrong or something. At least not on this planet, although there's nothing to stop some form of proto life coming down on a meteor or bit of space dust.

    Of course this is just another educated guess, as we don't have a time machine to go back and look.

  • Razz #15 6 years ago

    Not Yet...