Glossary
El Norno
Here is a brief description of some of the jargson used in the Creatures series,
not all is specific to the game, but terms I thought might be helpful to be described.
| Term | Description |
| Albia | The flat world upon norns & grendels live and Shee used to live |
| Artificial Intelligence | Software that models thinking, such as that used in norns and grendels |
| Artificial Life | Software that models aspects of orgnic lifeforms |
| Autosave | When the game automatically saves every so often |
| Banshee | A type of shee, typically interested in grendels and gadgets |
| Biochemistry | The study of the chemical reactions in living things |
| Breed | One of the varieties of a species, usally with it's own appearance and genes |
| Breed Slot | Each breed fills a slot and overwrites the last breed put in that slot There are 10 per species |
| COB | A Creatures OBject file for installing new scripts into the game |
| COBbler | Someone who makes cobs |
| COBbling | The qct of making cobs |
| Compound Object | An object in the game with several parts, includes vehicles and creatures |
| Creature | Generally refers to norns, grendels, ettins shee & geat. |
| Cross-breed | A mix of two or more breeds |
| Digital DNA | The software that encodes of the biology of creatures |
| Drive | An urge of a creature such as hunger, sleep or sex drive |
| Ettin | A creatyre that fills slot 2 |
| Euthanasia | To choose to kill a creature, usually to allieviate suffering |
| Evolution | Change over time, usually referring to the change in genes via the natural selection on genetic variety |
| Export | To take a creature out of the game, so it can be imported later, copied, edited &/or sent to someone else's computer |
| Feral run | To let your creatures bred with minimal interference |
| Force-aging | When you artificially accelerate a creature's growth |
| Geat | Species that uses slot 3, also known as the Shee slot |
| Genetic breed | A breed that usually uses sprites form other breeds, and has some of it's own unique genetics |
| Genetic engineering | The changing of genetic code |
| Genetic modification | The changing of genetic code |
| Gengineer | Someone who changes genetic code |
| Grendel | Species that uses slot 1, typically aggressive and sterile |
| Grendel Mother | Symbiont that creates grendels |
| Grenorn | Grendel-norn hybrid |
| Grettin | Grendel-ettin hybrid |
| Handish | Humans, or human language |
| Haploid | To have one set of genomes, like creatures do |
| Import | Bringing a creature into the game, either from one previously exported or one downloaded from elsewhere. |
| Lek | Dancing that amorous norns perform |
| Moniker | A code for each creature that is the same as it's genetic file |
| Naven | A Creatures Community troll |
| Nettin | Norn-ettin hybrid |
| Newbie | Someone who is new to an online community |
| Norn | Creature that fills slot 0, usually fecund and playful |
| Nornal | Normal for a norn |
| Norndel | A grendel-norn hybrid |
| Nornir | Another name for bibble or for the norn species |
| Oldbie | Someone who has been a memebr of an online community for a long time |
| Pure-breed | The original, unmixed breed |
| Script | A set of instructions in a world that can be changed by cobs |
| Scriptorium | The total set of scripts in a world |
| Selective breeding | To interferewith how a species evolves |
| Shee | Species that uses slot 3, sometimes known as the geat slot |
| Small Furry Creatures | One of the working titles for Creatures |
| Smart Vendor | One that has a limit on how many items it will vend into the world at once |
| Utility | External program that augments or affects the game or it's files |
| Wallbonk | For a creature to constantly walk into a wall |
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