Everyone give another hand to Rascii for fixing the site, and to the community in general! The CCSF has been going on for 10 years now, and that's no small thing. The community has survived major sites closing down and Ettins stealing everyone's gadgets for years. There is wiki pages being updated, new breeds being made, new metarooms and worlds being made, and new people joining the community. It just goes to show that everyone here has hand in making this a truly amazing community!
Today's releases are also really amazing, like always! There is a colorful pack of Norns from Mea. She also has a nice thank you picture for Rascii and anyone who helped him fix the site! There's the agent that inspired today's little theme, the Hands Off agent from Kezune!
Some more good news from Ron! He has moved all of his presents and he has the second verse to the Sheemas song:
"On the second day of Sheemas Master Shee sent to me
Two Clapping Hands
and Some Ettins from Old Albia!"
He also has an interesting question for today: What was CCSF 2011's theme? (As always, the answer can be found on the Creatures Wiki and please PM me your answer!)
Releases:
A "Great Big Thank You" picture from Mea!
A pack of Norns from Mea!
The Hands Off agent from Kezune! |
Guess what's been fixed? The site! A huge thank you goes to everyone for waiting patiently, to Rascii, and everyone who helped him find the bugs. Without your patience and help finding the bugs, the site would still be a mess and the CCSF would still be delayed.
As most of you know, the Creatures Caves host switched from PHP 4 to PHP 5 and this broke most of the site. Uploading agents or adoptions was impossible and I couldn't come up with a decent alternative. So the CCSF was put on hiatus until the site was fixed. The majority of the site is back to normal, and the CCSF can continue! Since the holiday season is so close, I couldn't help but change a few things.
The rest of this year's CCSF will run from December 1-12th. So that means there will be 15 days to this years CCSF, instead of the 14 that I origionally had planned. The rest of the days will have a "12 Days of Sheemas" theme that ties each day's release together instead of it being a random theme. The releases for each day were already grouped around a certian theme, so that hasn't changed much. The contests also haven't changed. They will still run like normal, and the dates for them have already been decided. If you're still confused, then please either post a comment on here or on the CCSF news thread!
And finally today's releases are: two wonderful packs of Norns from Mea, a new Ettin breed from Ylukyun, and a C1toDS metaroom showcase also from Ylukyun! Sadly, Ron doesn't have a question today as he's too busy moving present. He does have something else though! It's the first verse to an old Nornish holiday song called "12 Days of Sheemas. The first verse goes a bit like this:
"On the first day of Sheemas Master Shee sent to me
Some Ettins from Old Albia!"
CCSF Update Cliffnotes:
The CCSF was down because uploading submissions was impossible, but now it's back!
The rest of the CCSF will run from December 1-12!
Contests entries are now due December 10th!
There will be a small "12 Days of Sheemas" theme that ties the rest of the releases together!
Releases:
A pack of Grendels and old Ettins from Mea!
The Doge Ettins from Ylukyun!
A C1toDS Metaroom Showcase written by Ylukyun! |
In this week's Creatures Online update, Lucas shared with us a list of many bugs that have been fixed since the last update, including a moonwalking Tatou. The Item Kit's object icons and descriptions were also updated, and the Science Kit chemical names are now colour-coded.
There's no information yet about the exact date of the upcoming Twitch broadcast of Creatures Online, but the team will keep us posted! |
Breeders Beware will no longer be hosted on Family Gathering, because it's moved to my own domain at Ghostfishe.net!
You can view the new site here.
I've updated the site with a brand new design and several new developers' resources, including a bounding box tutorial, ATTR/BHVR tutorial, and the Docking Station and Creatures Village CAOS categorical files! |
GOG.com is offering 50% off a selection of games, including the Creatures series, until November 25, 2014!
Grab Creatures: The Albian Years, Creatures Exodus or Creatures Village for just
$2.99 each! This is a great opportunity to add more of the Creatures series to your collection. |
According to the Official Creatures Online Facebook Page, Creatures Online will be exhibited at the Zoo Machines Festival on Friday November 7.
The Zoo Machines Festival describes itself as "the interdisciplinary event to envision new species of video games". |
On Monday the server that Creatures Caves uses switched over from PHP 4 to PHP 5. During this process some functionality of the website was disrupted. We're currently in the process of fixing things. If you find anything that doesn't work, please comment on this post or PM me.
Commenting, forum posting and caring for Creatchis should be fixed now. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
Happy Quirky Day! It's a (totally not made up holiday) that is celebrated by eating quirky cookies. It just so happens that one of today's released is a new quirky cookie pack created by Ylukyun! In case you feel like sharing your cookies, you can give savannahs11's spliced Norns a few! There's also a hungry group of Ettins from Mea who would love to help you make the new cookies. They might just steal them though.
Ron's question of the day is sort of related to edible things: Which species of Ettin is named after a type of food? Like all of the questions, the answer can be found on the Wiki!
Community Events:
The main CCSF site has been updated!
The C3 Relaxed Wolfling Run starts tommorow!
Maybe check out this year's contests?
Releases:
Some new Quirky Cookies from Ylukyun!
A pack of spliced Creatures from Savannahs11!
A pack of Ettins from Mea! |
It's day two and it's a quieter day then yesterday as far as releases go. There's still plenty of wolfling or feral runs going on in the forums though, including a new one. A new C3 wolfling run, The Relaxed Wolfling Run has been created, and it will start on November 4th! The C1 Mystery Feral Run is full and the Norn's have been revealed! The Random Event Run has also been streamed, check out the highlights if you haven't see them yet!
As for the releases, there is two packs of Creatures from Mea and one short story from Allekha called the "Handish Wonderings Triptych!" One of the Creature packs is a random mix of different genetics and breeds that is sure to spice up your gene pool. The other pack is a group of immortals who were the only survivors of their world. The "Handish" short story is actually three different stories that are loosely related to each other. The first one is called "Plane—" and is about a Hand wondering about the Moon. This naturally got Ron, the mascot interested in the different planets and stars in the Creatures series. So today's question is:
We all know that Creatures 1 takes place on Albia, but what is the name of another Creatures planet, the 3D world from Shee legends?
Community events:
A new wolfling run has started, The Relaxed Wolfling Run, and it starts on November 4th!
The last day to submit entries for the C2 Feral Run is today!
Releases:
A pack of Creatures from Mea, who have Grendelish personalities!
A pack of survivors from Mea, who survived a doomed feral run!
Part 1 of the "Handish Wonderings" by Allekha! |
Welcome to this year's CCSF! This year's theme is evolution and natural selection and we've certianly followed it this year, between the sifferent releases and CCSF activities. Much like last year we have some wonderful coloring pages, which were created by Mea for the CCSF! Four forum feral/wolfling runs have also been created just in the for the CCSF. Three can still be entered, the Colortrue Ettins wolfling run and Creatures 2 Feral run. There's also two empty spots in the C1 Mystery Feral Run! If you can't get enough of Creatures events, and I know I can't, then there's also this year's contests!
Which brings me to this year's mascot, who's also a part of a contest. This year's mascot is Ron, a decendant of the first Norns! Each day of the CCSF he's going to have a question for you. If you answer all 14 correctly, then you get to take him home with you at the end! Remember to not share the answers though! Today's question is an easy one, Who was the first Norn?
Community events:
* CCSF contests are open and accepting entries!
* CCSF Random Event Run starts soon today!
* C2 Feral Run will start later tonight!
Releases:
* A Halloween-themed Tulu showcase by razander!
* A pack of spooky Zombies from Mea!
* A redone Spam Norn breed by Grendel Man!
* A lovely coloring book from Mea!
* And finally some new eggs sprites by me! |
In this week's Creatures Online update, the team debugged various things. Some of them required the modifications of few lines of code, while others took longer…
- Fixed some invisible sprites
- Resized some textures to fix assets compilation
- Fixes related to updates in the light manager (handling the lights in-game)
- Fixed preload called twice
The team also reviewed some item kit products and the descriptions of some chemicals.
Lastly… Lucas is going to have some holidays, from Halloween to the 17th of November, so there will be no weekly update during this time. However, as soon as Lucas is back, Lucas should be able to announce the definitive date about the Twitch session Sophie talked about some weeks ago. As for now, we know it will be during the first week of December. ![[ngrin] [ngrin]](/images/smilies/emot_grin.gif) |
Only about 24 hours left until the event! In honor of the CCSF and Halloween, we will be hosting a Halloween weekend flash mob here on Creatures Caves. Be sure to set a reminder in your phone/calendar!
Basically everyone just logs on to Creatures Caves at the same time and we try to beat the highest record of 22 simultaneous online users.
Please post a reply in the corresponding forum thread if you're interested for headcount purposes, and be sure to log into CC Chat as well as Creatures Caves during the mob!
Also, get excited for the annual Creatures Commuity Spirirt Festival (CCSF) kicking off tomorrow! It will be hosted here and you can view the new site when the flashmob occurs.
Check Your Timzone
02:00pm, Nov. 1st | Los Angeles (PDT)
04:00pm, Nov. 1st | Chicago (CDT)
05:00pm, Nov. 1st | New York (EST)
09:00pm, Nov. 1st | London (GMT)
10:00pm, Nov. 1st | Paris (CET)
06:00am, Nov. 2nd | Tokyo (JST)
08:00am, Nov. 2nd | Sydney (AEDT) |
Well, it's that time of the year again folks. We have quite a few spooky Halloween agents available here at Creatures Caves, so make sure you head over to the downloads section and search for 'Halloween' to download a few!
• Candy Pumpkins new! (C3/DS)
• Halloween Quirky Cookies new! (C3)
• Stinger Candy Corn new! (DS)
• view all >>
Additionally, there are two Halloween-themed metarooms. You may also want to check out the Halloween Addons resource article written by Malkin (updated as recently as yesterday!) It's full of links to over 80 Halloween addons throughout the community! Try not to scare your norns too much!  |
Hi everybody!
It's late but it's here! I have compiled a zip file that includes all the barebones requirements to get Docking Station's green light going. This is running a rewritten server and ham5ter's intermediary client.
It isn't pretty, but it gets the job done.
Read more at the blog: Albian Warp pre-1.0 Test Release
Since I have no access to the Albian Warp webserver, I have temporarily hosted the files and instructions over on WizardSpire Games.
Please let us know of any errors you receive. I am sure this will probably break in glorious ways, so it's important that you let us know! ![[nlaugh] [nlaugh]](/images/smilies/emot_laugh.gif) |
 A new Creatchi feature has been introduced: Poop. Yes, Creatchis may now use the restroom and it can be cleaned up using the new scoop item. Everyone who currently has a Creatchi should find one free scoop in their inventory, though future scoops must be purchased from the Mart for a special price of 14 coinchi.
Another new feature regarding this aspect of the game will be coming soon, so stay tuned!
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