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I saw a writeup of Creatures in Wired, and put it on my want-list. So my wife gave it to me as a birthday present in September of 1997, and I (and my seven-year-old daughter) immediately fell in love with it.
So far, we run a completely "innocent" Albia: no COBs, no cheats, no gengineering, not even any imported Norns. We did apply the 1.0.2 update and install the Observation Kit, but that's all. I imagine my daughter will eventually let me at least bring in some of the Six Free Norns from Cyberlife!
I'm a programmer by trade, and a bits-and-bytes guy by nature, so I couldn't resist looking inside various of the files that Creatures stores the universe in. Also, I wanted to fix up our Register and Graveyard, which were in quite a bit of confusion due to 1.0.0 bugs and our misunderstanding of how the Graveyard applet works. I'm also fascinated by Norn genetics, and have been deciphering the GEN files, to observe the mutations that happen when new norns are born.
The main things that are available on my Creatures pages are:
No COBs or huge lists of links here; I suggest you check out the Creatures Webring or the Norn Underground for those...
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