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It's been a while since I last made any new creatures. For a long time the happy kitty was my latest. Until now, that is.

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For those who do not know what this creature thing is and what are you supposed to do with it, go read this post: @insaneworks/what-am-i-supposed-to-do-with-this.

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And for those who want to know how things are made, who desperately want to take things apart, want even more information or just didn't get it and need to be explained better, please do go over here and read this post: @insaneworks/wandawoo-will-show-you-the-layers-and-the-code-of-the-tiny-avatar-engine.

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If you didn't want to read the links, do not remember what's going on, just look at the pretty pictures. There's more random creatures available in the creature site here: https://www.insaneworks.fi/olio.

Short explanation:

The creature is digitally drawn, cut-copy-pasted-remixed from letters and symbols, different body parts are in layers and a code reassembles the creature so that it's color, expression, limbs and accessories appear, disappear or change. It is free for you to use as it's licensed CC BY.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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The though that I should do something to my creatures, has been in the back of my head for quite some time now. It's been knocking there, sometimes quietly, sometimes really loudly. But as I have nothing under the shell that people usually call the scull, if we ignore the echoes of the knocking, it's been really easy to ignore the thought completely. Until now.

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At first I just wanted to do something about the fact that creature 18 was made out of Steem logo. Yes you read correctly. I said the curse word. At some point after the breakup and the crazy Steemex doing some more weird and narcissistic stuff I took the creature 18's ability to speak away. It said "Steem on" but as I'm the god in the creature world, I took it away. After a while I deleted the creature 18 from the internet and thought that I would replace it some day. With a Hive logo creature perhaps.

Well, that time was now. December 2022. No Hive logo creature though.

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So there it is. Former Steem logo, former larvae, now a cool Yo creature.

You over there! Yes, you! Don't laugh.

If I say it's cool, it's cool.

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Then, after doing this and as my brain (that suddenly had appeared from somewhere) still wanted to do more, I had a thought that I should do something Christmassy. And as you probably already have noticed in most of the images, there's the red and white hat. Elf hat or Santa's hat. Now every creature has a hat, if they decide to wear it. But only for a limited time.

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The code is in GitLab. https://gitlab.com/insanew/olio

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to change the visibility of the project, I actually can't even do that, in the settings page the drop down menu where I should be able to change it from private to something else, it just doesn't work. But if you can see the code when singed in, then I guess I actually don't have to change it. Let me know GitLabbers, can you access the project site and see the code? I'm a newbie so I know nothing.

Anyway, if you can't see it, I can't do anything to it because the drop down menu doesn't work...

...so... Great!

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Okay so every creature has a Chrismassy hat for a limited time and again next year. The whole December and about a week after that. But my brain wasn't done. I also wanted to make a new character that would only appear about three days around Christmas eve. You know who I'm talking about.

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Done. Creature number 20.

But again my brain wasn't satisfied and because the code is built so that I can't just have a character that has all it's layers appear only few days a year, I made the top layer of the creature 20 a whole new, different creature.

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A creature that blocks all the layers underneath on all the days when the three day creature is not allowed to be visible by the code. But that actually didn't work how I wanted it to work and my brain decided it was time to make yet another creature, using the same folder where the creature 20 is. So this one is either a whole new creature or a holiday version of the three day creature.

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So the creature folder 20 either has one creature that has a winter and summer version and a square creature, or three different creatures, all cramped in one folder.

I actually think there are three different creatures. A square (or a block), Santa and Väinämöinen from Kalevala.

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Väinämöinen is a badass old dude from Finnish mythology that can sing people in to swamps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen

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It could be that Santa and Väinämöinen is the same person, but who knows. If you believe the evidence that my creature code gives us, that certainly seems to be so. Every Christmas something magical happens and the ancient geezer Väinämöinen turns from a cranky old, young maiden chaser grandpa, into children loving softie.

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