Creatures Caves

The latest news of the Creatures 1 background models being put up for auction has prompted Steve Grand, the 'Digital God' himself, to send our community this message:

Hi Laurence, hi everybody!

Wow! I'd have bought them years ago if I'd been given the opportunity (come to that, I'd have bought the rights to Creatures if they hadn't been sold to Gameware behind closed doors). But unfortunately I live the wrong side of the Atlantic now, too, and there's no space in my apartment. Also, it would grieve me to give as much as a cent to Gameware, even to save those. I do still own the hot air balloon that nobody let me include in Creatures 1 (it was my favourite thing, too!), and one of the tiny clay models I made to show CL how we could make the backdrop (I think Gameware may have the other), but just lately I've had to let go of quite a bit of my past - I don't even have Lucy, my robot, any more (long story) - so 12 feet of display case would be too much nostalgia to hang on to!

While I have you all here, though, you might be interested to know that I've recently started work on a new Creatures-like simulation. It's getting on for 20 years since I started C1, so I figure it's about time I made use of everything I've learned since then! Nobody else seems to have filled the gap. Maybe your kids will be interested?!? You can follow progress on my blog if you like: http://stevegrand.wordpress.com.

Thanks for the info, Laurence. Always nice to know you guys are still flying the flag!

- Steve
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