Docking Station is a completely free
artificial life game from
Creatures Labs. It 'feels' the same as Creatures 3, but it is smaller. And free.
Docking Station appeals to people in a variety of manners. There are many players, that simply raise
norns, playing around. Then there are the people that 'play' the game on a completely different level. They are the inventors, the biochemists, the
geneticists, and the world-builders. They don't build with wood or plastic or metal, they build with
CAOS. They don't mix chemicals in a beaker, they perform hex calculations in
frhed or others with the help of a
gui. They can perform
genetic manipulations without governmental funding, all they need is a 200k
open source program.
For the people who play the game, simply to play, the rules are simple. Fool around. You can breed
norns, trading them, or breed
ettins, or
grendels, if you have
Creatures 3 installed.
You can torture the norns, or turn down the temperature and watch them shiver.
Back to
Creatures