i should at least install creatures 1 and 2 on my laptop again
those games have such a special place in my heart, especially because underneath the "oh this is a fantasy critter i guess" is a lot of painstakingly modeled biology. down to hormones rising and falling, individual "genes", and everything
i used to do "wolfling runs" - load the game up, leave them all alone overnight, see what happens - and it was always fascinating to see what had happened, a bit survival of the virtual fittest
of course that also came with the sort of huge online arguments that only 12 year olds convinced in their own absolute morality could have with each other, LOL
the ethics of creatures wolfling runs........... oh the tales i could tell you........... all those moments lost like tears in the rain........... [ cue bass-boosted dramatic-sad blade runner music otamatone cover ]
