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Miles

Miles
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  4/7/2017

I've introduced a friend to the Creatures series recently, and it gave me an idea that would be beneficial to newcomers (and returning members) to the franchise+community. It could just be a post or a forum thread on CC or any other host that would contain the following information:

- A basic explanation of what the Creatures series is about+maybe a brief history
- Where to get the games
- Information on installing docking station for people who got the gog.com release of Exodus, and a link to the offline patch (it doesn't have any info related to this for the GOG page for Exodus, that I found anyway.)
- Links to basic gameplay tutorials
- Links to where to find help with troubleshooting, and a link to the remaster patch for C3/DS
- A blurb about COBs and other mods people have made, and maybe a .zip of some 'ease of life' COBs (with the creators' permission of course)
- Links to relevant pages on the Creatures wiki

Maybe I've just been unlucky with finding a quick-start guide like this, but it seems like all this important information is scattered across the internet or the forums. If anyone knows if a current, no-broken-links version of something like this would be please let me know, and maybe we could pin that information somewhere visible on CC.

I think it's important to have this info all in one easy to find place, to help any potential new-comers who might need help understanding such an amazing unique series like Creatures. If Creatures Family ever comes out, this will be very useful. What are your ideas and thoughts?

 
Malkin

Malkin

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  4/7/2017

There is a Creatures 3 walkthrough on the Creatures Wiki with some information for DS.

The page on the GOG Creatures Collection covers patches that are needed for the GOG editions.

There's a few 'mixtapes' of recommended addons in the Games Resources section at Creatures Caves. :)



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Miles

Miles



  4/7/2017

Nice, thank you! Those are all great resources. I'll share those with anyone I can convince to try out the games ;)

I feel like the series would be interesting to quite a few people. The 90s-aesthetic might appeal to some people, and from what I've seen on Youtube, videos regarding computer learning and neural networks intrigue a lot of people. I think if some big youtuber made a video about it, there would be a quick burst of a few hundred or so people who would try one of the games out.

I don't really have anything else to talk about so here's Google's search traffic for the Creatures game series since 2004, just because.

 


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