Another Time || Day 14: A Bug In the Garden

 

Well, now that the holidays are over and I'm back to my regular work schedule... we're back to taking another look at my Albia! Updates may be a little bit on-and-off, and after the CCSF is officially over, I'll probably slow down a bit and just return to Creatures 1 occasionally.

Crestfall || Hmm...

 

Hmm.

Another Time || Day 13: Keeping Score

 

If things like this can happen in other Creatures games, I suppose it only makes sense that it could happen in Creatures 1, too... even though I never thought about it.

Another Time || Day 12: I Spy

 

I spy, with my little eye... uh, whatever's going on here.

Another Time || Day 11: Norn Husbandry

 

Now, then, what's this about?

Another Time || Day 10: Turning Things Around

I'm really surprised I've never seen some of these alert box icons before now. They're kind of horrifying, actually. This one looks like it belongs in a creepypasta or something...

Another Time || Short break!

Apologies for the short notice on this one, but Another Time posts may be delayed for a day or two! I've fallen a bit behind on them and have decided that rather than trying to rush out some quicker or shorter posts, I'd like to continue writing at my own pace. 

Posts will still be continuing (I promise!), but I'll probably pick them up more after my winter break from work starts about halfway through this week. (Nothing like having piled up "use-it-or-lose-it" days at the end of the year...)

Thanks for your understanding and continued support of the Pappus Café! I'm so glad that everyone's been reading the series so far and stuck around, despite all of my stumbles. Thank you!!

- Pixis

Another Time || Day 9: Underneath Albia

 

What I thought might be an intense drama pretty quickly turned into a bit of a struggle instead - I needed to get these two back home with the others as soon as I could! But maybe, just maybe, they can complete their journey together...?

Another Time || Day 8: All Around Albia?

 

This is something I'd never really given much thought to until now, but isn't the background music/ambience in this area really spooky? It feels tense, like maybe something bad might happen. I don't think that Grendel is feeling particularly good about being stuck here, that's for sure.

Another Time || Day 7: Alert!

 

I don't know what I expected when I injected "Carrot variation", but it wasn't bouncing carrots, that's for sure.

Another Time || Day 6: CHAOS.

 

Hands down, this has to be one of the funniest pictures I've ever taken in Creatures.

Another Time || Day 5: The Journey Begins

 

And just like that, there was our newest child: Rice! (Also named by my partner.) This time, Darla was actually present for the hatching of her child, and she insisted on sticking close; in fact, I had a hard time separating them! But, alas, if I wanted to get Rice up to speed with the important learning of the day, I needed her to pay attention...

Another Time || Day 4: These creatures are genuinely ALIVE!

 

Before we continue on with our adventures in ancient Albia, I wanted to take a second here to appreciate the Tip of the Day feature.

Another Time || Day 3: Benji

A message I sent to a very close friend of mine at roughly midnight last night:

"i have a norn named benji and while trying to teach him what food is he decided that food is also benji and now he's going around saying "Benji benji" and he's also taught the other norn to call food benji and i am going to lose my goddamn mind"

Crestfall || Moving Worlds... Again?!

 

Well, I can't say I saw this one coming!

I know, I know, we're in the middle of the CCSF here, and I'm in the middle of a Creatures 1 blog series... but I wanted to interrupt things very briefly to highlight that Docking Station is now officially available for free on Steam, with the Mall breeds and Science Kit available as free DLC, plus Creatures 3 as paid DLC!

You can check out the game's release announcement and a list of updates and bugfixes that were included with the release by clicking here!

Needless to say, as soon as the Steam release was available, I once again began the process of moving Crestfall. While it's not ideal to have to move worlds this many times, I'm really ecstatic about the Steam release and want to use it from now on! I'll be taking some time over the next day or two to move all of my favorite agents and breeds over, as well as getting all of the breed sprites back in order so that most of Crestfall's creatures should come out of the move unchanged.

Since C2toDS is probably also not an ideal location (unfortunately... as much as I love it...) for a large population like this right now, I'll go back to using the Ark, alongside maybe a smattering of small and interesting metarooms for my creatures to explore!

Real short update here, but that's all for now - I just wanted to help get the word about the Steam release out, in case anyone hadn't heard about it yet!!

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Another Time || Day 2: Of Carrot Beetles and Discovery

 

After managing to successfully convince Darla and Benny to eat some food - or, at least, teaching them the word "food" and dangling it in front of them until they decided to eat it - I realized that the food sources around the nursery were starting to look a little thin!

Another Time || Day 1: Out of the Frying Pan

Now, where were we?

Oh, yeah, right...

I opened up a new world, and like so many others, I was greeted by the familiar sight of Albia, just as it was back then.

So many humans found their love for Creatures right here, in this tiny little nursery with its cozy machinery and endless opportunities. Now, it's my turn to give it a try and see what my first experience with Creatures in its purest, most classic form is like...

Another Time || Day 0 (Prologue)

 

I opened up a new world, and like so many others, I was greeted by the familiar sight of Albia, just as it was back then.

The cable car, clicking and clacking along as it moved back and forth. The buzzing of the bees to the left side of my screen. The gentle ticking of the clock hanging on the wall in the kitchen, even the lapping sounds of a raft pushing its way through a watery tunnel underground. 

These were all things I'd seen and heard many a time before, and as my brain moved my mouse towards the top of my screen, fully prepared to go to Muco the Egg Layer and create some Norns to fill this world with, I remembered where I actually was.

Uh-oh. I don't think I'm actually on the Capillata any more...

Crestfall || Moving Worlds

 

Sometimes, you just gotta pick up and go somewhere else. Y'know?

Of Scales and Tails

 

I may have mentioned this before, but I've never paid as much attention to those non-Norn creatures as I think I should have. So, today, for some reason, I woke up this morning and said "Yeah, I want to do a Grendel-based world".

And so, I entered the Banshee Ark.

The Beauty of Post-Apocalyptic Albia

 

For all my playing of C3/DS, one would think that it's probably my favorite game. And you'd be mostly right - I like the way C3/DS feels and plays the most, the way it works, how easy it is to navigate, how not-difficult it is to play on a modern computer, and all sorts of other things.

However, there's something I think I haven't talked about enough yet, and it's how my favorite Creatures game - aesthetically, musically, and pretty much everything-else-besides-the-actual-gameplay-wise - is Creatures 2.