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Creatures 3, Creatures: The Albian Years, and Creatures Village are now 15% off their regular retail price for the Steam Winter Sale! Docking Station, the Science Kit, and the Breed Packs are free on Steam as per usual.
The team at Eemfoo.org is excited to announce that a new warp, created by 20kdc, has started its open beta! This new warp does not require any significant install, and will work with all versions (even Steam and Linux!) of DS. Chat, friends lists, sending and receiving norns works just like it did with the official warp so many years ago.
In order to best keep track of those testing in this beta phase, and to keep communication clear, you will need to join Eemfoo's Discord to participate at this time. You can join at: https://discord.gg/UjpKqCjStS.
The Creatures Community Spirit Festival finally has a date! A little earlier than last year, going from November 20th to November 26th! This year's festival includes:
EemFoo has been busy setting up for the CCSF 2022 wolfling run. Entrants are still needed! There will be a new scoring system this year.
Submissions should be sent to EemFoo on discord (DMs are fine, they're always open) Please include what name you want to be listed as, the name of your creature, and breed sprites required. EemFoo will do their best to minimize conflicts, but there are only so many slots.
All documentation from Creatures 3D, the un-released (just planned) 3D creatures game, that was developed alongside Docking Station! Contains lore and concept art! Almost 200 pages!
Creatures can now fully interact with and understand the world wrap in C2toDS Refresh!
NeoDement wrote: -Creatures can now see objects over the wrap. This works by creating an invisible object with the same Category as the original, offset to the other side of the world. It even works for the pointer and creatures!
-Interactions with these Mirror objects will redirect to the same interactions on the original object. This is to account for objects that are near the wrap but can still be reached without the creature walking through.
-If a creature gets too close to a Mirror creature, the Mirror copy will move away from them slowly so that the creature keeps approaching until they cross the wrap and can interact with each other for real. (this had to be done because creature to creature scripts are complex and can't be faked with a simp object)
-Creature voices can now be heard over the wrap (previously norns could hear them but the player couldn't hear the creature bibble).
-The pointer/objects are no longer prevented from going over the wrap if a creature has their attention on them, the copies fill the same role.
-The Selected Creature/Attention Indicators are no longer made visible everywhere in the C2toDS room. Instead, copies of them are created and offset to the opposite side of the world so the camera can always see them.
-Optimization. Having the world wrap installed in a world with 16 creatures with fast ticks enabled appears to be on average ~43 fps slower than not having it installed.
The game variable "C2toDS_WrapTickRate" can be tweaked to control how frequently the wrap tries to move objects through it and create mirror objects. The lower the number, the more accurate, but it comes with a performance cost.
EemFoo is opening the floodgates for norns for this years wolfling run. there are 19 slots total this year. These teams are broken into four teams of five and will be played out on a new metaroom!
Expect antics much like the infamous reality TV Survivor show! Each team will have a 'flavour' of sprite breeds. The genetics can vary as that's up to you! The list will be posted on the CCSF discord and announced everywhere else once determined. Slots are first come first serve. ALL participants will get a little surprise at the end of the festival!
Submissions should be sent to EemFoo on discord (DMs are fine, they're always open) Please include what name you want to be listed as, the name of your creature, and breed sprites required. EemFoo will do their best to minimize conflicts, but there are only so many slots.
Team Purple will be official C3/DS breeds
Team Blue will be unofficial C3/DS breeds (keep in mind the C12DS breeds will be installed.)
Team Red will be C2/C1 style C3/DS breeds (please let me know which slots for sprites and which breed)
Yellow will be the wild cards! Anything goes for this spunky team!
Submissions should be sent to EemFoo on discord before August 15th. (DMs are fine, they're always open) Please include what name you want to be listed as, the name of your creature, and breed sprites required. A picture would be great too!
Allekha has updated Moe's edition of Terra Reborn, patching bugs, renaming files which caused clashes, and updating several aspects of the metaroom to be in line with the Creatures Development Standards.
Fruit of the Doom has converted the C2 Frog Norns to C3/DS! Like the original game, these Frog Norns only have one life stage.
The Frog Norns have a genome based on the Bondi Norns, they also already have the swimmer chemical, and eat critters when hungry for fat. The Frog Norns occupy Grendel Slot Y.
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