It Lives...?

Well yes, but actually no. Maybe? 

Truth be told, I wasn't expecting to ever come back. I just wasn't getting a whole lot of fulfilment out of the community at the time, at least compared to the other communities I was a part of. Then my life suddenly took a nosedive for reasons I'd rather not get into publicly, and I found myself in search of a new internet home. 

I started getting back into science-y things as part of that, which in turn made me long for a good life simulation game. And a couple decades later, there's still no better game for that than Creatures. But I wasn't sure if I was really in the mood to reinstall the game considering my current computer has no CD/DVD drive, which is inconvenient to say the least, and...well, it's still really quiet around here. 

But what really brought me back was the discovery that the Creatures series is now on Steam. Not only that, but the Steam version is much more convenient to use than the GoG version and is in the hands of people who are willing to update it (well, as much as they can at least). 

I hope this can bring in some much-needed fresh blood into the community. It's not quite as huge as a new game, but it's great for the series all the same. So now I have the Steam version of C3/DS, and am in the process of figuring out what patches, breeds, agents, etc. are generally recommended nowadays and figure out which of those are things I want. 

As of this post it seems the community in general is as quiet as when I initially left, but maybe that's just because the hotspots are in places I haven't thought to look? There's definitely still stuff going on, but it doesn't seem like Creatures Caves is that active anymore. 

Don't expect me to get back into active development anytime soon. I still plan on fiddling around with genetics if only to make my personal gameplay more interesting for me, but as of right now I don't have any plans to make any new full-blown addons. At most I might update an older release. After all, it's been a long while since I've actually played the games. 

If I decide I have something interesting enough to post about on here I'll post it, but otherwise this blog's probably going to continue to remain silent. 

One last thing to note is that I've changed my global username a second time and now I go by Risen Angel or Rise Engel if the former happens to be taken on any particular website. I just figured it was time for a change and I think this name suits me.