Creatures Caves

Well... who here wants to play a Creatures game where you actually have to manipulate the world by controlling creatures? This little (actually freaking huge) thing I'm making is basically that. The world is pretty tough to survive in, because there are predators, the season system makes food scarce, and there's also a whole ton of other crap going on. First, I'll get into that insane season system. There are four of them, just like on Earth, each one lasting about fifteen minutes. That makes an in-game year last for an hour. Unlike the rest of the series, seasons actually have an effect other than making a tiny patch of exposed water freeze over. Plants take a lot longer to grow than usual most of the time. You'll have some fast growers every now and then, but most plants spend most of the entire season growing, and then the seeds burrow into the ground after a while so that they don't all get eaten.

Besides a lot of plants and animals only showing themselves during certain seasons, temperature also changes. In the hotter areas, creatures can actually die of heat stroke in the summer if they aren't of the right breed or aren't properly equipped. I'll get to that stuff later. Due to the fact that fruits and berries tend not to show themselves that often, they also won't rot as quickly. You can actually create food storage containers that stop your hard-earned food from rotting.

Now for the creature-controlling part of this. At the start of the game, you have a glowing pointer that you can move around like you would the Hand in any other game. The area you start off in is pretty cold, so your starter creatures will be better equipped for cold areas, but they do even worse than normal creatures with the heat. Your little pointer thing is right next to some eggs frozen in ice when you boot up a world for the first time. You have to move it over them to melt the ice. After that, you just wait for them to hatch and then you just click on one you like to start controlling it.

The control system is crazy. You get this huge GUI that covers most of the screen, and it has all these buttons and status monitors you use to control your creature and know its needs. It's got its downsides, though. If your creature's drives get too high, the buttons will stop working and the creature will take control to find the thing it needs.

Okay, I'm tired of ranting. I'll probably talk more about this stuff later on, but for now, see if that gives you a general idea of the insanity going on in this game.