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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-07-28 08:41 pm
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The Technosphere is back!

I used to play around a lot on the Technosphere, where you can make creatures and release them into the simulated wild and follow them to see if they live or die. (They mostly die.) It vanished from the intarwebs back in 2001 or so, but earlier this year they resurrected it, and I jsut got an email from them. Woo!

I just made four new creatures. Will let you know what they are when they get released - they keep a cap on the total number of creatures active at any one time, so you have to wait until others die before yours get loaded. It's been anywhere from a few hours to a couple of weeks in my experience.

[identity profile] cicer.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that looks like far too much fun. I just created a couple creatures. We'll see what happens to them...

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
:D You get all excited when the email comes to tell you one of yours is pregnant. And then they die and their offspring dies, too. XD Most of them don't last too incredibly long, but you get occasional winners. They have the old creatures people had made online, so I checked the stats of mine, and one of them managed to reproduce and had a fairly decent string of children before the line died out. :D

[identity profile] cyancat.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
I remember that site!!
I used to play on that and create creature after creature!
Now that takes me back to my college days.

Thanks for informing me.
I made a herbivore and a carnivore.
Lets see what happens!

[identity profile] wyrdness.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo, interesting. :) *Goes to make creatures*

[identity profile] readsalot.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I created and activated a creature--will they send me mail to tell me that it's been released? If I look for creatures with my email address, it tells me that there aren't any.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-07-29 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, once it's released they'll email you and it'll show up with your email address after that point. The ones I made yesterday haven't been released yet, either - sometimes it takes several days for enough creatures to die and your creatures to move to the head of the queue. :D