The Funny and the Scaly

Got some screencaps today, Productivity Week Day 5 entry tomorrow... (or today because it's past midnight here.)

Oh, Swagbucks... :P Got this as my captcha when searching about the "Toasty!" guy from Mortal Kombat. Jon has been playing it on the flatscreen in our basement, and once in a while this guy pops out of the corner saying "TOASTYYY!" in a womanly voice. 

See what I mean? (Warning, there is a spray of blood. But seriously, it's a GAME.)

Happy colorful grendels! I started a new feral run after my norn run reached Generation 140.

Wow, that's a lot of color variation! Unfortunately my purple ones died, and still no sign of a blue one... but hey, almost have a full rainbow.

Happy Easter!

Quickly visiting Blogger to wish everyone a Happy Easter!
I'm not religious at all, but I still celebrate the typical Christian holidays... not for their religious significance of course, but just for fun. It's a habit, I guess.
This morning we opened some adorable little bunny boxes that Jon's mom had made completely from scratch, ate some candy, and generally were in good spirits. My father was wearing a sea-green polo in the pastel-color Easter spirit, and joked that he was being an egg. Unfortunately he can flex his gut enough to look like an egg, which was a little disturbing yet funny at the same time.
He needs to lose 15 lbs... shh, don't tell him I said that. :P

Not much else to say, but I'll leave you with some more screenshots of my Creatures world.

Look at those happy little guys... okay, so maybe they were all complaining of protein hunger at the time, but whatever. I have taken away all continuous sources of protein and turned off the automatic vendor, so now they will have to actually learn to push the dispensers themselves to get their precious protein-filled fruit. That wooden box is filled with nutritious eatin's of all types, for instance. The Magma head and Bruin body have showed up again, and both types of pigment swaps continue to appear in the male population. The females continue to have a slight pigment swap and various color tints. Purple seems to still be the most common tint of males, though even females are appearing with purple tints now!

Here's a small treat for players of Creatures!

Wulfrin is up for adoption at Creatures Caves! :]

He's a generation 102 norn from my feral run, and is 2hours and 20 minutes old. He's in perfect health aside from a lingering protein hunger, and he rarely feels crowded.

You can download him HERE!

(You may have to scroll a bit to find him as time passes from the original posting of this entry...)

That's all for now!

Generation 85+

My feral run has reached Generation 94 as of now, and no signs of idiocy yet.
They seem to like resting often, and have a penchant for eating large amounts of fruit. Their bodies seem to always require large amounts of protein, and I've seen a few die from protein starvation. I think the next step of improving their gene pool is taking away major sources of protein from their environment. Hopefully natural selection will take care of this little problem.
The excessive resting really hasn't become a problem yet. They will get up when they actually need something, they just prefer to rest when they're content.

Anyway, here's some screenshots of some more color mutations and stuff like that.

A new color mutation that has emerged... A lack of green pigment, and increase in red and blue, which results in a purple tint. (The pigment system is RGB based.) This mutation is present in three norns at the moment... Without the pigment tints, the norn on the left would look just like the one to the right. (They both have a pigment swap of 72 to begin with.)

For a little while, the Magma norn head and Bruin norn body made a reappearance. It was pretty random because the population had been homogenized for at least 30 generations. Strange how things work that way, but I guess some sort of recessive gene made its way through or something. The Magma and Bruin parts have since disappeared from the population, but they were pretty while they lasted. These are two males with a pigment swap of 44 and 72, respectively.

The game developers must have had a secret love of Pokemon... The autonamer apparently named on of my male norns "Pikachu." 

Well, at least he wasn't named "Derape." I've seen a norn autonamed that before... I can just imagine a male norn being all sketchy and being like "Heeeeyh babeh, I'm DERAPE!" and forcefully kiss-popping. Yeah. Bad autonamer, baaaad.

That's it for now...

More Color Mutations

Been being my lazy self.
So here's some more screenshots of colorful Creatures that have been born in my feral run.

HAHAHA his ridiculous mutated legs.

The common mutation has been the purple and green, which is a mild pigment swap. The turquoise and purple mutation is a more intense pigment swap, and showed up just recently in the population.

The one on the left has a pigment swap. The one on the right has the same pigment swap, but also has a pigment rotation, making the parts that would normally be greenish a dull grayish purple.

Quick Creatures Update

A quick update on what's going on with my current little project!

My world is on generation 35 now I believe, and going strong.
Since implementing an IQ test for all new hatchlings to go through, I've noticed a drastic difference in behavior.
Unlike with my failed Fallow Norn project, the norns that make it to the Norn Meso are lively, curious, interactive, and mobile.
They have lost most of their motivation to listen to my commands as they get older, but they aren't nearly as idiotic as the fallow norns were.
In other words, they aren't mindless breeding machines. They'll get up and walk around, look for food, approach each other, give each other suggestions and occasionally act upon them, and generally act like first generation norns.

I haven't seen too many interesting color mutations aside from the occasional pigment tint, but I did catch a glimpse of these guys.

Pigment swap in a baby norn... The guy on the left has norn pigmentation, while the one on the right is visibly different.

This guy was named Gerald, and he was quite pretty! He had a pigment rotation I believe? Either way, he was almost completely monochromatic, save for an amazing sea green coloration. I sure hope he had a few kids...

In other news, today my family and Jon celebrated my birthday!
I got some incredible gifts and had a great weekend overall. :]
More on that another time!