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EA today passed out some new media of Spore's first stage, the "Cell Phase," a top-down 2D minigame that looks a lot like flOw (but, you know, maybe, actually ... fun). Perhaps not coincidentally, flOw's original designer Jenova Chen was briefly employed by Maxis, suggesting that Spore's Cell Phase may be a direct evolution of Chen's elegant Flash-based creation. Like its predecessor, Cell Phase features a player-driven microorganism, a little fish in the primordial ooze, which can be designated as herbivore, carnivore or omnivore before crashing into the ocean by way of immaculate meteor. The primary objective is to eat -- and not be eaten -- as you "earn DNA" and collect parts to enhance your creature's abilities (read: grow legs and get on to the good parts). Everybody's gotta start somewhere, eh?
Don't miss the Cell Phase trailer posted after the break!
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Whoa shit! Hit the decks!
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"OH SNAP"
"OH NO HE DI'N'T!"
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1: the first person who voted you down doesn't get it
2: that probably inspired more who don't get it to vote you down
3: the catch-phrases are old and unnecessary, but i don't think you were trying to make this political/religious, just for laughs.
A) Selective Breeding
B) Genetic Drift
C) Convergent Evolution
D) Intelligent Design
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Not really news, though, eh?
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I hope someone else knows what I'm talking about :/
EA: "Hire him, then crush him."
EA: "HA ha aha HA."
EA: "Hey wait... who am I talking to?"
Jenova Chen: "I think I'm going to go now."
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This was before flOw came out.
By the by, Chen also did a mentorship at EA before he released flOw as his senior thesis at USC and likely saw these mechanics as he was creating flOw. So really, we don't know who ripped off who. Don't jump to conclusions so quickly.
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that's all i have to say
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