[5] Flow designer Jenova Chen attributed Will Wright's first demo of Spore as inspiration.

[citation needed] 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.

[5] 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 iPod classic had lockup issues which took place on the game's initial loading screen on 1.0.x and 1.1.x software.