Spore Islands on Facebook screenshot

Maxis and EA bring Spore Fun to Facebook

Love Spore? Love cute Facebook games? This is for you.

Spore Islands isn’t like the full blown Spore game available on PC and Mac.  In this version of Spore, you design a creature and let him loose on your own private island.

You pick from several types of islands to call home. Once you pick, that’s our creature’s home island for the rest of the game. On the island will be two ‘wild’ creatures.  These are game generated creatures. Additionally, you can invite up to two friends to join you on your island.

Evolution

Spore Islands has creature design and evolution. It retains some of the same elements, such as picking body parts, and choosing upgrades.  Evolution though is limited not based on your creature’s success but on an allotment of DNA points. DNA points regenerate over time, up to a maximum of 12 available.

Each change of your creature costs one or more DNA points. That includes changes to diet, speed, and attack power selections.

Check it out. You’ll see sliders to change. Your creature’s appearance changes as you adjust the sliders.

Spore Islands on Facebook evolution

Over time, you’ll find a combination that works well on your island type. At that point, you’ll not need to spend evolution points on a regular basis. DNA points can then be used for changing creature appearance and other visual changes. Also DNA points allow abilities to be purchased.

Facebook Gaming

Facebook brings along it’s own poisoning of anything good though. Like other applications, you can purchase points.  Maxis calls them DNA points, but like Zynga games, they can be purchased or through partner deals. In this game it’s going to be extra tempting.  Who doesn’t want special abilities and a cute hate for their creatures.

If you’ve had a chance to play this, please share your stories and thoughts with me.

Yours,

Todd

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Spore Islands on Facebook

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Look what I received for Father’s Day!

Spore Creature Creator is the prelude game to the upcoming Spore game from Will Wright and EA.

The creature creator allows you to design and play with your creatures before the full game comes out in September. Players can design just about any creature they can imagine, controlling the number of eyes, ears, arms, legs, and more. Why limit yourself to a regular bipedal beast when you can give it six arms and eight legs?

Adding things to the design doesn’t just make for looks. More legs equals more speed. More armor means more health, and more eyes can make your creature a charmer. Along with speed and charm, each creation will have various attacks and benefits based on what’s added.

The Spore website has a free version of the creature creator with about 20% of the full range of parts in the full price version.

Spore Creature Creator and Spore is being released in both PC and Mac versions at the same time. Yahoo!

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