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Don joined the Creatures Community back in December 1996 as the webmaster of AmberCreatures, a known developer for each of the games and our unofficial Creatures technical support.

She is a regular visitor to alt.games.creatures, JRChat, Sine and the main community forums, and even featured in the first ever Much ado about Norns newsletter here in 2000. She is also a wikicities administrator and wikipedia user.

In RL, Don is a Software Engineer in Games Development (having previously worked at Maxis as a Content Designer on The Sims), with a Masters degree in Software Engineering.

She has a keen interest in cross-platform software development, graphic design, web engineering and MMOGs. Don mostly programs in C++, Java, PHP and SQL, and all too frequently upgrades her computer to keep up with the latest technology.

During her time off Don thus tries to steer away from computers where she can, enjoying travel, photography, shopping and the usual socialising.

[edit] Summary

• Gender: Female
• Age: Mid to late twenties
• Interests: Programming, alife, graphic design, web-design & socialising
• Games: Strategy and god games
• Main Platform: Windows XP Pro SP2
• Location: England
• Docking Station ID: Don
• email: admin(at)amberz.net

[edit] Previous Aliases

• The Shee Apprentice
• Don the AmberShee

[edit] Affiliations

• Manager at Creatures Caves
• Moderator for Sparky's DS Aftermath
• Temp-op at the JRChat chat room
• Coordinator for the CCSF 2005-2006
• NeoPets CC Guild Leader
• CCP Project Coordinator
• Siner, IRC

[edit] Previous Affiliations

• Member of the now closed Metacore
• Responsible for C12DS breed re-conversion

[edit] Interesting Facts

• Don featured in the first ever Much ado about Norns here
• She won second place in the first Creatures Survivor game, two votes behind Gryph.

[edit] What's In a Name

The story behind the AmberShee...

[edit] Programming

[edit] Development Platforms

Her main development machines are as follows:

• Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 x 2.13GHz - Windows XP Pro
• Intel Core Duo @ 2 x 2.0GHz - Windows Vista Ultimate
• Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz - Ubuntu Linux
• Mac Mini G4 @ 1.42GHz - Mac OS X Tiger
• Intel P4 @ 2.66GHz - Windows 2003 Server

For testing purposes Don also runs:

• Windows 95
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP Home
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Red Hat 9 (pre Fedora)
• Fedora Core 6, Zod
• Mandrake 10 (pre Mandriva)
• Mandriva Free 2007
• Knoppix 5
• Mac OS 7.5 68k

[edit] Developer Information

Don has developed addons for Creatures, Dogz, Catz, Oddballz, Babyz and The Sims games, amongst other things.

[edit] A-Life Projects

• The Habitat - Artificial life computer game in development (see right)
  

[edit] Creatures Development

• C2 Script Range: 15,201-15,401
• C3 Script Range: 15,600-15,700

[edit] Creatures 1 Contributions Creatures 1 Ettin Grendel family Pepper Grendel The AmberCity [edit] Creatures 2 Contributions Breeds Butterfly Norn Day Norn Red Kanga Norn Ettin family Original Grendel Pepper Grendel Level Grendel Wood Norns Conversion Cobs Pick-Me-Up Safe Splice Updates Frog Norn Update Worlds Alba LochAlbia Cumulus (FW) Deep Blue (FW) Enchanted Forest (FW) Magic Forest (FW) Grendarno (FW) C1 for C2 (FW)

[edit] Creatures 3/DS Contributions Breeds C12DS Breeds ChiChi Norn (C3) Ettin Eggs (DS) Grendel Eggs (DS) Egg Fixes Gargoyle Norn Update Gecko Norn Update Ghost Norn Update Metarooms Ettin Beach Tools/Patches Metaroom Expansion Kit Combined Breeding Update DS Single Login [edit] Creatures Contributions general Tools/Patches Creatures Remastered Patch Norn Builder - Breed developer tool

[edit] Creatures Collection

[edit] Norndolls and Norn Beanies

Don is the proud owner of a hand made Butterfly Norn Norndoll (shown left), designed especially by her good friend Data back in May 2003. She also now has seven official Norndolls measured at around 6.5 inches tall each: the group consists of three purple Blueberry Norns - one from America (right), one from Australia & one from the UK - three green Norns - all separately from England (first of the three shown right) - and a brown Norndoll from America.

[edit] Posters

Don owns the full collection of Creatures posters: the four Creatures 2 posters and one Creatures 3 poster.

[edit] Creatures Titles Owned

Don is a long term supporter of the Creatures series and therefore her complete collection includes thirty unique titles, twenty-eight box sets and two electronic-only releases:

Creatures 1*, Creatures 1 Life Kit #1, Creatures 1 Deluxe, Creatures 2, Creatures 2 Life Kit #1, Creatures 2 Life Kit #2 (electronic), Creatures 2 Deluxe, Creatures 3**, Docking Station (electronic), Creatures Internet Edition, Creatures Gold, Linux Creatures Internet Edition, Creatures Trilogy/Gold, Creatures Adventures, Creatures Playground, The Albian Years (Remastered), Creatures Exodus (Remastered), Creatures Village (Remastered), Creatures Triple Pack, Creatures Exodus (Mac), Creatures Village (Mac), Creatures Exodus (Mac+Win), Creatures Village (Mac+Win), Creatures (PlayStation), Creatures Raised in Space (PlayStation) and Creatures (Gameboy Advanced). Plus the eleven Creatures Mall breeds, Creatures 1 Strategy Guide and Sea-Monkeys.

* Three different versions, two of which are Windows and PowerPC Mac dual-format games. ** Full sized box release and DVD boxed

[edit] Other Creations

[edit] Clay Creatures

Back in 1998 Don, being the artistic type, even had a go at making a few Creatures 2 Norns of her own. The small tribe of clay creatures she produced were around 2cm high and included purple, brown and blue Norns. It wasn't long before she decided to try her hand at Grendels and Ettins as well in order to complete the miniature scene. See right.

[edit] Related Links

• AmberCreatures
• WebPetz

[edit] External Links

• http://www.webpetz.com/creatures/