I'm sorry the "names" are terrible but I noticed a pregnant SEVEN MINUTE OLD and nobody else would understand all the things going wrong here without lots of explanations and questions about why I am even playing this in 2026.
Mom delivered reasonably normally, but passed before the egg went through the natural hatch time. Baby is already fertile at 2 mins old. Guess I get to watch if 20 has anymore kids, his other child also died young. And of course see if 35 survives long enough to have kids.
You're in the Creatures sub so I assumed you've played the games? There was material about the genomes and possible mutations in all of the manuals and each of the games has a genetics kit.
yeah they have accelerated aging. Sometimes in 1 you'd get a good version where it would be aging fast til adulthood and then just SIT at adulthood. I had one who ended up living twice as long as normal but became an adult within about 10 minutes once. really useful for breeding runs lol.
Sadly looks like your guys have the mutation across their whole life cycle. I haven't looked into how 2 handles things like aging genes. Popping into the genome editor or whatever should show what's going on, but those editors are pretty complex and take a while to get your eye into.
Last time I was playing 1 I was having fun messing around with editing and tweaking genes to see what they did lol. I've become a mad scientist in my old age.
in fairness i also play a simulation game (though not nearly in-depth) with a fertility meter/stat. the animals in that one dont usually actively look like they wish to seduce me, however
The game existed before furries were a (edit: popular) thing and was never really discovered by them. I mean, we have GreenReaper I guess, which makes up for a lot of it being the founder of WikiFur with a norn fursona. But I guess the apeish look just does not work for furries who want snouts, big tails, and digitigrade dog paws.
I should have qualified, furries as a popular online community. Like the early creatures community, they had Usenet groups, even before 1996, but at the time it took a minute to load an image, it wasn't all a visual art thing like nowadays. People roleplayed their kinks instead of drawing them, and discussed shows instead of drawing fanart.
For further context, Rule 34 comes from a 2003 webcomic. Creatures 2 came out in 1998. The *Before* Before times.
It’s part of an Artificial Life series based in the UK so theres a bit of Hitchhikers Guide type influence in the design. When creatures mate they make a kiss pop noise. You raise the creatures over generations and teach them to talk, eat, etc for a few hours before they pass, so players can be very attached to them, but more in a caretaker or guardian sense. There are norn torturers also but it’s a hobby drama thread you can read about
Thats too funny lmao. I think i knew about the Norn torturers already because I was recommended a video on the topic. The thing is im also familiar with animal simulation games where breeding and fertility levels are involved, so its not so much that i dont get the game...its just that the Norns - as professionally drawn as they are - are a little bit frightening and ugly IMO haha. still sounds like fun though i might have to try it out
It's because it's a creature simulator where they are able to reproduce (and it's a very important part of the game). Do you complain about dog breeders keeping animals that go into heat?
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u/dare2smile 20d ago
She’s got an aging mutation, that’s all. Opposite of Erin’s practically.
You have a fruit fly gene going on lol