#Creature Creator Game

[dreamforcedeities]

That thought when instead of working on the blog you instead install a spore inspired game and hit your oc with a car, fun game, do recommend

[xenonfossil]

Creature Creation Station version 0.4 update is now up for download or freeplay in browser!

IMPORTANT NOTE for those upgrading from version 0.3 and before: ⏩ Loading the game for the first time from the previous versions will initially display your creatures as all the same default cat. Fear not! Just close and reopen the game and from then on they'll load with their correct features!

⏩ There's a few other bugs like the giant cursor in browser and such, but I've been waiting too long to get this update out, so please bear with me as I work on patches!

A short list of the many new features: 🐈 Pick up your creations and drag them around with right click! 🐈 Use the whistle button to arrange all your creations in the center! 🐈 Cute new paw cursor! 🐈 17 new body features! 🐈 A ton of new randomized name options 🐈 Added blob shadows under creatures and lil dust particles when they run 🐈 On feature change, a Sparkle particle effect and animation play 🐈 … and much more!

View the full changelog on itch: Grab 'Em Update! version 0.4 changelog

Thanks for your continued support and patience!! 💜 And PLEASE show me your creations!!! ~Xenon

[meowuff]

Third part of the "Changeling/Mimic Sky Kid Creature" Series

HIDDEN FOREST

I am happy to present you the Creatures living in the dark and misty depth of the hidden forest!

The hidden forest is a dark and vast maze of trees, shallow rivers and many caves to explore. The heavy rain and the sun being hidden behind dark clouds and gigantic trees cause the forest to be cast in a constant dimness.

The dark habitat and the constant rain reminded me of the rainforest so what better adaption for the little critters would it be than the one comparable to amphibians?

Most of their features are inspired by frogs plus a bit of a snake like behaviour here and there.

The Frog-Kids live in every nook and cranny of the hidden forest. They climb to the highest top of the trees, crawl through the many dark caves scattered throughout the realm and swim through the shallow rivers and ponds formed by the constant rain.

If not being on a hunt, Frog-Kids wander the land as pairs, picking one companion during their young years and staying with their choice for the rest of their life. Together with their chosen second half they patrol the woods, climb the hills and trees and sleep together in the shallows of the rivers and ponds.

Because of the constant rain, the capacity of normal hearing got quite useless, the continuous pattering of water drops drowning out most of the sounds. As consequence, the Frog-Kids ears changed over time to help filtering out the most important noises. They are most comfortable to move around on all fours, making it easy to jump onto higher places or into the water quickly, if someone would be walking into their paths.

If they do decide to walk on two legs, when disguised as normal Skylings, they tend to walk hunched over, keeping their arms in the front to fall back on all fours at any moment.

Compared to an average tall Skyling, Frog-Kids are often half a head or a full head taller than them. Combined with them rarely wearing moth clothing, it doesn't pull any attention to them, thanks to the fact that vets or butterflies tend to change their hight during their journey. As a result, they are being perceived as one of them.

Due to the generally wetter environment and their adaptation to spending quite a lot time in the water, their hands and feet developed webbing. As consequence of this, they are incredible fast swimmers, unbeatable if you would try to escape them if you are unlucky enough to fall into the murky waters.

Because of the webbing, their gloves are not able to properly hide those features and you'll be able to see the webbing even through their disguise.

Because of the generally dark atmosphere in the rainy forest, the Frog-Kids especially pick out Skylings with dark clothing and masks to steal their disguises from. The dim colours letting them blend in better than the brighter orange-beige of the moths.

They are not able to wear any capes as those tend to melt in the rain of the Hidden Forest, it being one of the reasons that this realm is known to be dangerous to venture through for young Skylings.

Additionally, the absence of the cape is causing older, more advanced Skylings to feel a need of protection if they cross paths with the Frog-Kids, and they tend to stay on the ground to help them, making it easier for the Creatures to guide them into uncharted parts of the forest, just to either eat them or leave them lost in the dark as entertainment.

Even if Frog-Kids are venturing the Forest as a pair, if it´s about hunting for food, they exclusively do it alone. It is not just being more efficient but also prevents any competitive behaviour between themselves, which could cause a fight about resources and end in attacking each other.

The Frog-Kids have no teeth but instead use their long and extendable tongue for hunting. Their jaw, similar to that of a snake, is able to dislodge and widen their mouth significantly, making it easy to swallow their victims whole.

The tip of their very strong tongue can light up brightly, comparable to the few lanterns scattered around the forest. When hunting, they usually position themselves higher up on one of the mushrooms growing on the trees and let their tongue lure some unsuspecting Skylings to them, which just think they found a light source to recharge their own light.

As soon as the Skylings get close enough, the Frog-Kids tongue shoots out and envelope their pray. Once they have you in their grasp, it is impossible to wiggle your way out of it again. Just seconds after capturing you, they swallow you whole and digest you over the next days.

Their diet consists of Skylings exclusively, but due to the way of consuming them, they keep their hunts for them to more or less once every 2 weeks.

Frog-Kids are sinister, dangerous beings. If you are encountering a single one, it means they are on the hunt for food. If you cross paths with a pair of them, it means they want to have some fun getting you lost in the darkest, unknown corners of the Forest. Either way, meeting any of their kind is a bad sign for moths as well as vets. If you venture the forest during the night and see a bright light slightly moving between the trees, it is advised to keep your distance, even if your own light is at its lowest. After all, you´ll never know for sure if you´re not being watched from above, observed to turn your back and open up a chance to snatch you from the muddy floor of the forest...

Signs to distinguish a Frog-Kid from a Sky-Kid:

no cape

webbing between thumb and hand visible

walking around lightly hunched over

wearing dark masks and clothes

skin color is a musky dark green

> Reference of the Hidden Forest <

[okinanimextra]

For those who played Spore before

[chaotictendencies]

I'm starting. A collecshun.

[gibbearish]

btw something i figured out: spore doesnt actually randomly crash that much, it crashes specifically when you die in the creature stage in the middle of a migration. my guess would be this is because once the migration starts, it deletes your old nest as your respawn point, but cant set one at the new nest because theres a cutscene thats supposed to play when you arrive at it, so when it tries to respawn you the game gets confused and dies. the migration paths also happen to be lined with a lot of dangerous species, so youre more likely to die during that than the rest of the creature phase, making it almost certain that someone unaware of this will run into this glitch at least once if not many many times. and depending on when you last saved, it could be anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours until you get back to the point where it can happen again, meaning that by then the circumstances leading up to the previous crash could be but a twinkle in your mind's eye and the pattern isnt likely to stand out unless youre playing it over and over and over and over again within a very short timespan.

tldr just save your game whenever a migration starts and youll be fine

[woofzy-the-flowery-sheep-dragon]

Ok, so, real quick...

What's y'alls opinion on Creatures of Sonaria?

I've never actually seen any posts or mention of it here on Tumblr, but I tend to see it a lot on YouTube. So I'm curious, what's y'alls opinion of it?

Also, take an image of 2 friends I made on the game (yes, that is a Hatsune Miku Ani rabbit)

Impromptu photoshoot I did with them because Miku. (Ironically, the song Miku popped up on my playlist right as I started this post)

[freshhotflavors]

Did u kno zyn is making a video game? The cutest lil creature creator where u can make just a bunch of lil guys!!!! Follow her gamedev tumblr @xenonfossil !!! Also wishlist the game on steam!

[psychicisopod]

check out my boyfriend's creature creator game! make a bizarre little guy!!! support it on patreon!!

[propelmen]

Don’t worry, it doesn’t bite ;)

[21clownboyroach]

you're telling me that in lethal company the maneater is supposed to be a cockroach? with a LARVAL form? you're telling me that in just a few hundred years, cockroaches are going to have evolved a completely different life history? they're suddenly holometabolous insects now? WAIT. IT DOESN'T EVEN PUPATE? it just goes from larva to adult! so it's evolved a form of metamorphosis heretofore unseen ANYWHERE in the insect world??? and you're still calling it a cockroach!? NOT ONLY THAT but this CREATURE WHICH HAS BECOME COMPLETELY DISTINCT FROM COCKROACHES is going to be placed in the EXISTING GENUS PERIPLANETA? the same genus as the american cockroach???? HAVE ALL THE TAXONOMISTS DIED AND NO ONE CAN RECOVER THE PRACTICE? do you understand how much cockroach phylogeny changes basically every fucking year??? and you're telling me that THING is in the GENUS periplaneta??? does that LOOK like periplaneta to you??? i can accept that a cockroach in 500 years can be big enough to eat people. in fact i hope that happens. but this is too far. i don't even play lethal company

[phirehazardz]

making my moms perfect pathetic rat dogs in spore (2008)

[partitioned-mayflower]

stewing in the black dope

wyvern drawing because wyverns are fucking awesome

[hexabeast]

Yknow what game I would love to see get remade today with the tech and knowledge we got?

Spore.

This is not a joke I'm dead fucking serious. I want to see what absolutely batshit stuff can be done to bump this game up to modern standards. I'm talking longer storylines, each evolution Era being longer or more fully developed, with actual mechanics instead of the barest ghost of what they had.

Stop remaking successful games. Remake Spore. Do it cowards.

[sentientcave]

I feel like every time I look away from tumblr for a few days something happens. I'm going back to my video game.

[disgustedorite]

It's still kinda bonkers that these people have been playing Spore by hand with art for over 17 years!

If you haven't heard of Sagan 4 yet, please go check it out. The spirit of what Spore could've been is very much alive in the efforts of those 100+ artists and the 5600+ species they made and are still making. You can find all of it on the Sagan 4 wiki.