Hey Creators! I've fixed some minor bugs and added a few quality of life improvements! :)

Added:

• Add number above chat menu's handle to indicate the number of unread messages.
• Add button to load a creator's username in factory item menu.

Fixed:

• Fix bug that prevented players from playing singleplayer after hosting a multiplayer world.
• Fix error for held items when joining game.
• Fix cross-platform player accounts sign in.
• Fix camera view offset.
• Fix connected foot rotations (e.g., feet now rotate when dancing).
• Fix minigame bug by preventing players from swapping between modes when minigame build time <= 3s.
• Fix player chat menu.

Changed:

• Show most popular items *this month* in the workshop by default.
• Increase factory quest size on City map.
• Increase tiered framerate buffer (10->15).
• Turn tutorial off in settings (for future games) after having started it.
• Prevent downloading multiple items at once from factory. (MOBILE)
• Update loadable creatures on premium purchased. (MOBILE)
• Reset workshop download limit (today) even when all parts have already been unlocked in the daily reward. (MOBILE)
• As requested here, I've also reduced the XP requirements to teleport between maps:
  • Island <-> Farm: 50XP
  • Farm <-> Sandbox: 100XP
  • Farm <-> Cave: 150XP
  • Farm <-> City: 200XP
  • Cave <-> City: 200XP

Hey Creature Creators! A new update is now live with a tonne of new features, fixes and optimizations! Here is a summary of all the changes:

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Hey everyone! Over the past year, almost 400,000 players on PC and Mobile have created creatures in 13 languages around the world! The game has received tonnes of updates, has a website with a merchandise store, an education edition, animated short film and is now even evolving into a franchise! I have big plans for the future! Right now, I am busy creating a massive YouTube video in which I will take you behind the scenes and discuss the development journey so far! Thanks so much for playing my game and for your continued support over the past year! Cheers, Daniel

Hey everyone! For this update, I implemented a better login system with the ability to set a unique username! You can still sign in anonymously like before, but I also added the option to sign in with a cross-platform Unity account. You can access this from the settings menu! This was mainly added for the new friends system which now allows you to make cross-platform friends! You can add friends by either sending a request directly using a player's ID (e.g., PlayerName#1234) or by clicking on their username from the in-game networking menu. Once they accept your request, they'll show up in your list of friends! As friends, you can see each others status (i.e., online, busy or invisible) and even quick join when they are in-game. To help distinguish players, your friends will also show up as a different colour. Best of all though, Ive now added creature stacking! To stack on top of friends, hover over a players creature, and scroll up with your mouse wheel to select the saddle icon. You can dismount using Ctrl+Space (or rebind it from the settings menu)!
Additionally, I've fixed a few issues and added some new features like being able to set the spawn point for multiplayer worlds! Hope you have fun! Cheers, Daniel

Hey everyone! Im super excited to announce that 2 new creature games are in development and are wishlist-able on Steam! To help fund development, I also developed a new website with an official creature-branded merchandise store!

Creature Battle Simulator:

Creature Evolution Simulator:

New Website and Merch Store:

Creature Creator Education Edition:

Unlock 23 new body parts and patterns, complete 2 new quests, battle against the humans and challenge your friends to the new Kaiju Hunt minigame! You can unlock the city by travelling through the mineshaft in the Cave, or via the bus stop on Farm!
[olist]

Battle Face off against the humans and their best friends! [/olist]
If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you!

[ 2023-07-21 18:44:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Compete against friends in 6 new minigames throughout the world of Creature Creator:

• Build Battle - Given a topic, build a creature and then rate your opponents to determine whose is the best!
  
• Race - Be the first to complete three laps around the racetrack!
  
• Soccer - Score the most goals for your team before time runs out.
  
• Pirate King - Occupy the land near the shipwreck for the longest amount of time.
  
• Fruit Fight - Collect the most fruit for your team.
  
• Cave Critters - Kill the most spiders in the given time.
  

The world of Creature Creator is evolving! Explore new areas on the Island and Farm, but watch out for enemies! Youll now encounter octopuses in the ocean and spiders lurking in the caves of Farm and Cave. These enemies can quickly become overwhelming in hordes though, so make sure to use the new spin attack to deal lots of AOE damage! On the topic of combat, all the AI has been buffed and improved, and Ive added some more satisfying damage effects! There are also now multiple battle locations on each map with enemies from that map instead of the single battle arena on Sandbox! The hunger system has also been reworked so that you only regenerate health if your hunger is fully replenished and you have been out of combat for over 10 seconds! There have been quite a few changes to mobile as well. Free users will now be able to create online multiplayer worlds (limited to public lobbies with a maximum of 4 players). You will also receive free rewards daily for just logging in! Ive also reduced the size of banner ads and removed them entirely during cinematics. Next, I added a highly requested QOL feature to save a copy of your creature if you disconnect unexpectedly! Finally, lots of bugs have been fixed and Ive been working on a few performance improvements as well. Im currently implementing a major optimization to creatures. For those interested it has to do with optimizing the number of draw calls per creature to only be 2, instead of being a factor of the number of body parts and materials per each body part. In short, the creature rendering overhead will go from a time complexity of `O(n^3)` to `O(n)` which simply put is HUGE! With this change, Ill be increasing the number of players on a server to 16, but it could definitely handle more! The minigames and City map updates are coming soon, so stay tuned! Cheers, Daniel

Hey everyone! The animated backstory for Creature Creator is out now on YouTube! [previewyoutube=nKg51P0Jk1U;full][/previewyoutube] Hope you enjoy, and please remember to leave a like and subscribe for tHe AlGoRiThM! Cheers, Daniel

Hey everyone,

Creature Creator is going mobile!

• Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/creature-creator/id1564115819
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniellochner.creature_creator

The Factory

Optimizations

Map Changes

• Farm: The beach has been populated with palm trees and grasses and a pathway was added to the locked chest. The orchard and ranch were resized and more trees were added. Two moving platforms were added to the lake. Crystals now emit light in the cave. Background terrain was added with extended roads. The number of trees were reduced in the forest. Coins for the "Wishing Well" quest were moved closer to the well. Snakes were removed from the forest.
• Cave: Added Basalt platforms and fixed the moss. Lighting is now properly baked as well and light probes have been used for realtime dynamic objects to receive lighting.

Other

• Corpses are now edible (nice, cannibalism) and float on water.
• Added Turkish language.
• Added Night Vision ability.
• Added a native file browser for importing and exporting creatures!
• Created a new app icon!
• Scrolling on a creature's body targets the nearest bone.
• Held items are offset to a creature's hand.
• Add sense factor to noses and ears (which increases visibility for parts).
• Add launcher trajectories.
• Right click to flip parts along the local z-axis.
• Added camera shake when you take damage.
• Limit number of light sources per creature.
• NPCs move to different position when attacked.
• Prevent drowning when on rafts.
• Added ambient particles setting to disable clouds and particles in the cave.

Added:

• Add walk, run and jump (landing) footsteps for grass, dirt, sand, rock and water. (Note that this can be disabled from the settings menu!)
• Add kicked list to lobby data using SteamId, so players cannot rejoin online worlds they have been kicked from.
• Add world hints to teleporters and blinking icons to minimap when you are ready to advance.

• Fix "Could not resolve 'x' because it is not a child Transform in the Animator hierarchy warning messages.
• Fix bug where the language would change unexpectedly. (Hopefully...)
• Fix teleporters not updating the number of players in multiplayer.
• Fix body parts overlapping in the editor.
• Fix minimap not disabling zones when entered.
• Fix issue where you couldn't change your language.
• Fix issue where releasing tools wouldn't register.
• Fix worlds with different versions.
• Fix linked quests not aligning to the player's view.
• Fix issue where holdable items (i.e., pickaxes) could fall outside of the world border.
• Fix mine coal text.
• Fix highest point flag in creative mode.
• Fix colour palette override text.
• Fix kicked localisation.

• Move all coal deposits to the mineshaft in cave.
• Reduce dance cooldown to 60 seconds
• Change "Beetlesnatch" author to "MAVG".
• Disable command input debug manager.
• Make all props in Farm walkable.

Explore the cave to unlock 14 new parts and 12 new patterns, and mine coal to complete the new quest! Tip: [spoiler]To unlock the cave in Adventure mode, enter through crack in the cave on Farm![/spoiler] This is the 2nd largest map but the most confusing, so use the minimap to help navigate. Remember that you can fast travel by clicking on an editing platform to teleport to it!
A special thanks to those who helped contribute to this map's development, namely: VoidBeat for his help with designing the cave system; Ducktus, MAVG, Poliostasis and VoidBeat for modeling 14 new body parts; and Disgustedorite for creating 12 new patterns!

Added:

• Add unlockable maps (maps now need to be unlocked in Adventure mode first before they can be loaded directly).
• Add "Maxwell The Cat" dance.

• Fix auto-detection of available ports for singleplayer worlds.
• Fix changing language mid-game issue.
• Fix remove creature issue.
• Fix apple first interaction option.

• Teleport to beach after using raft.
• Improve inter-world teleport cinematics.

Added:

• Add "Pitiful Worm" intro cinematic to Island tutorial.
• Add inter-world teleport cinematics (i.e., Island-Farm, Sandbox-Farm).
• Add outline to interactable world items.
• Add additional minimap icons (e.g., flag, teleports, corpses, etc.)

• Fix creature creator tool sound effects unaffected by SFX volume.
• Fix singleplayer world failed to start (increment port on failed attempt to bind).
• Fix loading screen issue on connecting clients.
• Fix battle round/remaining text.

• Stop moving if you dance, and stop dancing if you move.
• Optimize Farm map loading time.

Hey everyone! It has been quite the endeavor, but I'm pleased to announce that Creature Creator has now been professionally localized into the following 12 official languages:

• English
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Russian
• Spanish (Spain)
• Portuguese (Brazillian)
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Korean
• Italian
• Polish
• Thai

In this update, we focus on expanding the open world!

Inter-World Travel

Map Changes

Localization

Other

If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Add more food spawners to each map.

• Fix collision issues with projectiles.
• Fix "Big Time Spender" achievement in the main menu.
• Fix minimap closing issue.
• Fix player's current cash not updating when a quest is completed.
• Fix grounded colliders in cave and market.

• Player minimap icon is now blue, and other players are red.
• Remove relay server setting in-game.
• Reduce hunger when flapping, jumping and sprinting.
• Disallow flapping, jumping and sprinting when hunger is zero.

If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Add minimap.
• Add fast travel system.
• Add spit and shoot abilities.
• Add camera clipping (preview feature).
• Add editing platforms to Farm.
• Add advancement message on map complete.

• Fix screen resolution bug in settings.
• Fix highlighting interactables over UI.
• Fix issue with minimaps buttons.

• Replace food crates with models.
• Allow ears and noses to be attached to mouths as well.
• Replenish health on full hunger.
• Disable death notification in singleplayer.

If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Add map previews to the main menu.
• Add a welcome tutorial to the main menu.
• Add "Collect Fish" quest to the Island map.
• Respawn quest items if they fall out of the map.

• Fix foliage disappearing on high settings due to the low poly wind shader.
• Fix walkable region above racetrack stands and ocean raft.
• Fix "Save Your Creature" tutorial item.
• Fix dogs not hiding in their kennels.

• Reduce "Big Time Spender" achievement to $10,000
• Change body parts on the Island map (now includes wings, and is easier to unlock arms and legs).
• Update author "SuperDing" to "MrMilo".
• Change "Back To Basics" achievement to "A Fresh Start".
• Increase Island world border.
• Reduce ocean raft wait time.
• Remove "Hungry Seagull" quest.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Fixed:

• Fix issue where hands would rotate randomly when re-entering the editor.
• Fix issue where NPC-related quests would still be active even after disabling NPC spawning.
• Fix issue where an error would be thrown if the first part/pattern was already unlocked when completing the tutorial.
• Fix issue with the "Save Your Creature" task in the tutorial.
• Fix incorrectly animated unlockable body parts.
• Fix toggle pagination highlight when switching modes.
• Fix issue where age/hunger value would randomly jump around.

• Use right-mouse-button to revert overridden colours and middle-mouse-button to view the colour palette.
• Award the "Back To Basics" achievement even if you haven't unlocked all parts and patterns.
• Move the creative reminder to after the tutorial.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Redesign the user interface.
• Add unlimited cash/complexity option to singleplayer creative mode.
• Release source code on GitHub.

• Fix creature unnamed issue when exporting.
• Fix held part hidden below other parts in editor.
• Re-add "tri-cuboid" part.

• Only allow quests and certain achievements to be completed in adventure mode.
• Only deplete hunger in adventure mode
• Only show lobbies with the same version and relay server.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Add underwater "wet lens" effect.
• Add Steam relay support.
• Add reminder when tutorial is in-progress.

• Fix framerate dependent mouse sensitivity.
• Fix social media links in main menu.
• Fix damage effects creating new materials which interfered with changing body/body part
• colours.
• Fix world border height preventing players from reaching flag.
• Fix battle arena text being different sizes on different resolutions.
• Fix transport binding issues on Mac by changing port to 7771 instead of 7777.
• Fix steam lobby-relay integration to remove players on disconnect.
• Fix colliders for market and campsite.

• Prevent abilities of the same type from "stacking" instead only use the highest level.
• Limit world names to 32 characters.
• Rename levelled abilities.
• Modify bite and sprint ability statistics.
• Make tutorial mouse hints more visible.
• Reduce default mouse sensitivity to 1.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Add Steam initialization check on startup.

• Fix "On A Mission" achievement.
• Fix bite keybind issue.
• Prevent "Sandbox" arena from being started during a battle.

• Enable PVP by default.
• Disable password input field by default.
• Prevent keybinds to the left mouse button.
• Don't prompt the overwrite dialog if the relevant creature is selected and loaded.
• Update quest text and completion notification.
• Update "Good Boy" and "Hungry Seagull" quests.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Added:

• Added 22 Steam achievements.
• Added 5 quests (complete to earn cash for Adventure mode).
• Added search functionality to the menu which lists saved creatures.
• Added damage indicator effects.
• Added a battle arena mode to "Sandbox" (find and interact with the sword to begin).
• Added underwater effects.
• Added eat ability and edible items (i.e., food crates).
• Added creature construction rate limiter.

• Fixed legs lifting above head when walking down a steep slope.
• Fixed physics issues caused when the visibility system disabled static colliders on the host.
• Fixed magenta water issues caused by reflections.
• Fixed the AI for all NPCs (e.g., buggy targeting logic for snakes, dogs and sharks).
• Fixed cave ambient lighting issues.
• Fixed damage not being dealt to NPCs in singleplayer.
• Fixed item holding system.

• Increased the maximum number of players on Farm to 16.
• Increased bite radius.
• Decreased sprint, growl and bite cooldowns.
• Removed the experience and level system, and replaced with unlocked achievements in the MainMenu.
• Removed the moving platforms on Farm.
• Updated statistics panel to reflect speed in m/s.
• [Optimisation] Converted background terrains to a single mesh.
• [Optimisation] Removed crops from Farm.
• [Optimisation] Used GPU instancing for orchard trees.
• [Optimisation] Removed unused combined meshes to decrease loading times.
• [Optimisation] Improved network serialization for creature data.

Please Note: This game is in Early Access! If you encounter a bug, please consider reporting it in the community Discord server. Thank you! Fixed:

• Fix lag spikes encountered when entering a platform or unlocking parts and patterns.
• Fix racetrack boosts not working on non-host clients.
• Fix foliage disappearing for Medium-VeryHigh presets.
• Fix timeout issues when creating a multiplayer farm world (untested).
• Fix cave lighting.
• Fix moving platform (todo: fix jitter on local clients).
• Fix windmill rotation offset.
• Fix growl keybind issue.

• Add visibility system to disable regions based on distance.
• Add holdable fish and toy items to the Island and Sandbox maps respectively (used in quests that have not yet been included in the game).