Real flOw Creatures...?

by **Xyzzæ** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:14 am

I saw this on Wired, and I immediately thought of this game:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/newcrustacean/
Doesn't that creature look a lot like the classic "Snake", or am I just crazy?
What do you think?

by **Amish_Gramish** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:11 pm

Huh, that's pretty cool.

Now let's hope the shark guy is the next one found.

by **Jenova** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:00 am

Nice.

by **Ar-Pharazon** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:34 am

This too:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32495109/ns/technology_and_science-science/. It throws off glowing decoy "flares"!

by **gm914** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:11 pm

Great finds.

by **Amish_Gramish** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:13 pm

Ar-Pharazon wrote:This too:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32495109/ns/technology_and_science-science/. It throws off glowing decoy "flares"!

Do I smell another flOw expansion?

by **Ar-Pharazon** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:17 pm

Amish_Gramish wrote:Do I smell another flOw expansion?

Not AFAIK. :-)

by **gtarjohn** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:07 pm

Am I seeing things?

by **Dice** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:30 pm

Amazing creatures!
Would love to have one at home.

by **thatflOwerguy** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:13 pm

How do you know you haven't already, aren't they all microscopic?

by **Amish_Gramish** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:47 am

The next flOw creature should be the Furry Crab.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4785482.stm

Or maybe it should be the basis of TGC's next game:
fUrryCrab
~ life could be hairy

by **Ar-Pharazon** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:45 pm

thatflOwerguy wrote:How do you know you haven't already, aren't they all microscopic?

When we ported the game to PSP, we took TGC's 3D models without changing the scale (no reason to). Their models were built on a scale of tens of distance units; so, for example, even the smallest of the "food creatures" was around 10 units across. Distance units in our game engine are considered to be meters. Therefore, one of the larger segmented creatures (like what you become) could easily be kilometers long.

Of course, really, the units of measurement in flOw are totally arbitrary, since you have no real-world frame of reference, so this was nothing more than a nerdy insider joke on our team.

On the other hand, how do you know flOw's creatures aren't really enormous creatures floating through the dense clouds of an alien gas planet?

by **Ar-Pharazon** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:18 pm

Amish_Gramish wrote:The next flOw creature should be the Furry Crab.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4785482.stm

Or maybe it should be the basis of TGC's next game:
fUrryCrab
~ life could be hairy

Neat!

More cool creature pics here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/10/04/GA2010100402533.html

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