Sunday, July 4, 2010The Fun In The Sun object pack has been released! Let your Creatures celebrate Summer with a new variety of waterside toys, available on the Agents page.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010There's a new tutorial under the Development section called the Hungry Critter Tutorial--just look for the gold star. Two breed previews have also been added to the list on the Breeds page: Gaius and the Yautja Norns.
Sunday, March 21, 2010Just a quick update. I've added a few more links on the Agents page to a few agents which I've found to be really neat.
Thursday, February 11, 2010Today I present not one, not two, but
six new agents available for download on the Agents page. These agents form a collaboration between myself and Norngirl and are the fruit of her (considerable) creativity and artistic talent and my coding efforts. These new agents are:
1.
Caterpillars. Two types, Fantazy and Ordin. Both grow up into--well, I don't want to spoil the surprise. Let's just say it's something really neat. I can guarantee you don't have any caterpillars in your game like these guys.
2.
Grasses. Two types, Fantazy and Ordin. The caterpillars each eat the matching kind of grass. In addition, the seeds are edible and the stuff can grow pretty much anywhere (read: any organic terrain type, including underwater--the Ordin variety looks especially pretty in the Aquatic Terrarium). It won't overpopulate but it will give any area a nice lush groundcover.
3.
Trees. Two types, Fantazy and Ordin (I'm noticing a theme here). Every part of this tree that a Creature can carry off with them is chock full of medicinal properties. They're also quite pretty, and are required for the caterpillars to complete their lifecycle.
4.
A lamp. This one isn't exactly on the same theme as the rest of the stuff, but it is still very neat. I believe you'll find that its soft hum and rainbow colors soothe both you as well as your creatures.
Head on over and check them out!
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Sunday, December 27, 2009It has recently come to my attention that some of my older agents suffered from Rainbow Spew. The sprite files for the
Dinosaur Toy and
4-in-1 Plant and the agents that came with the
Primordia and
Tulu metarooms have all been re-converted to the correct format and are now Spew-free. (The missing catalogue file has also been added to the 4-in-1 Plant's agent file).
So if you play the Mac version of C3/DS and these agents were suffering from Rainbow Spew in your world, hurry over and re-download the improved versions!
Many thanks to Malkin not only for bringing this to my attention, but for beta testing the new files.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009Breeders Beware has now been online in its current form for four and a half years. In May of 2010, it will officially be five years old. And I have to say, wow. How the time has flown.
I've been considering this over the course of the past month, and I feel it is high time that the title graphic is changed to reflect that. Hopefully this will help folks know what the site's proper title is as well.
So I hope the new design seems nicer, maybe even a bit better designed, than the last one. You can still see the previous design
here, and the original version
here.
And as I now find that Thanksgiving Day is less than an hour a way, I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving.
Saturday, November 14, 2009It's the last day of the
2009 CCSF, and boy has it been a good one! A lot of great stuff was churned out this year, from breeds and agents to artwork and even some poetry. I made a few submissions myself, including the Norn Nanny, KT and the Sabertooth Norns, all of which are now available for download on the appropriate pages.
I've also uploaded a new page, the
Cheat Sheet, which is a nice long list of cheats for use in C3/DS. Some of these cheats I hit upon myself, and it includes an explanation of how cheats work and how a person can go about "making" new ones. Anyone who knows of a handy cheat or two that isn't already on the list is welcome to contact me and tell me about it!
Thursday, November 5, 2009Just a bit has happened today.
I've reorganized the development page by topic to make it easier to find things. I've also added a few tutorials, including
one I wrote for the CCSF which covers ATT (Creature body data) files.
I have also updated the Worlds section with a page on my Tulu metaroom, including a download link. I hope to have a patch for Tulu, as well as the Louis Norn breed (which the room was created for), up for download soon as well.
That preview page for KT has also become the
download page for KT--although neither the metaroom or my Sabertooth Norns are currently available for download, rest assured they will be released later in the CCSF. In the mean time, said page offers a Sabertooth Norn background you can use to decorate your desktop.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009I
am still alive! I've just been busy polishing up KT and the Sabertooth Norns and getting them both ready for the upcoming
2009 CCSF. I've uploaded a
preview page for said metaroom, complete with a screenshot and description of the room and some promo pictures.
I also updated the links page and fixed the download link to the dinosaur toy on the agents page, which was broken. Thanks to SteelFoot for pointing that out.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009Still working away on KT. In the mean time I've gone over and revised some of my other agents. I added reproductive limits for the 4-in-1 plant so it doesn't overpopulate anymore, and nudged the Creature Counter down a little so it wouldn't interfere with Masha's Warpmonitor. Thanks to Norngirl for bringing this to my attention so I could fix it.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009I'm still busily working away on my projects, especially KT, which I hope to have out by the end of the year at the latest. In the mean time, I've uploaded
a page which may help other coders avoid some of the hurdles I've been tripping over lately, like trying to figure out which VERB ID and DRIVE ID integers will give your agent that certain effect you want it to have on Creatures. You can also find a link to it on the Development page.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009I've added some preview images to the Bai-Loki project pages. These feature slices of the metaroom backgrounds and do not include any critters or other agents, but I hope they will give you a taste of what has been going on behind the scenes here.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009Took a break from the Bai-Loki coding and breed spriting and added a new download to the agent page: the Creature Counter.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009Another update! I've added some new links to the main menu, linking to four new pages. The Fiction section is where I will host any Creatures fanfiction I may write--I already have a oneshot up, called
The Cuttlefish Shee. The Development section lists some very useful resources for agent and metaroom creators. The Contact section... well, tells you how to get in contact with me. There's also a link to the 2008 CCSF.
I have also created a page listing all of the agents I have created, along with their classifier numbers. You can see it
here.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009I'm still alive... and I come bringing updates! The
Worlds page has been updated with the status of the Bai-Loki Project, which I will continue updating as I work on said project. Yes I am really working on it, as you can now see! And the page for each of the Bai-Loki terrariums now also lists the status of that individual terrarium.
From the Worlds page you can also see the splash image for
Primordia v.2, and also download it--the issues that were reported are now fixed, and it even comes with a new critter!
I have also updated the
Breeds page with a short blurb about the other two breeds I'm working on, the Deep Norns and Sabertooth Norns, although neither is available for download yet.
And I added the NiGHTS Dolls, Dino Toy and 4-in-1 Plant to the
Agents page, so they can be downloaded from Breeders Beware--you don't have to go all the way over to the CCSF site to get them anymore.
That's all for now. Whew, what an update!
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