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'''slink''' (aka '''''S'''andra '''Link'''letter'') was a [[genetic engineer]] in the [[Creatures Community]]. She maintained [[Slink's Creatures Collection]] and was responsible for the original [[genome]] in [[Creatures 2]], having been contracted by [[Cyberlife]] to create it with a beta of the [[Genetics Editor]].
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'''slink''' (aka '''''S'''andra '''Link'''letter'') was a [[genetic engineer]] in the [[Creatures Community]]. Sandra Linkletter also created the [[C1]] [[world]] [[Terra Nornia]]. She maintained [[Slink's Creatures Collection]] and was responsible for the design of the original [[genome]] in [[Creatures 2]], having been contracted by [[Cyberlife]] to create it with a beta of the [[Genetics Editor]]. She was also active in the community, making over 3500 posts to [[alt.games.creatures]].
  
Unfortunately, relations soured between slink and Cyberlife and a squabble ensued on [[alt.games.creatures]], as according to slink she was never paid the agreed amount for the work:
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Unfortunately, relations soured between slink and Cyberlife, and arguments between the two broke out on a.g.c shortly after the release of Creatures 2; for more details, see [[Creatures 2 (genome)]]. slink subsequently left the community (just as Cyberlife withdrew from a.g.c) and removed all [[Creatures]] content from her [[Slink's Creatures Collection|website]] because she wanted to have more space on her main website, and accordingly certain others were permitted to host it on their sites. This was not an attempt to erase her contributions to the community.  She went on to become quite a well known and popular modder of the space station sim, ''Startopia''.
  
:''"Cyberlife's title to the entire genetic base of the C2 norn is, in fact, clouded.  The entire organ and chemical makeup was proposed and developed by me under contract to Cyberlife, starting in late November of 1997 and ending in mid-July of 1998 (two weeks after the expiration date of the contract).  Cyberlife has, however, defaulted on the written contract by paying me slightly less than half of the agreed amount and by not delivering the stock options specified in that contract."''
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Currently slink's work is available in the ''Slink's Treasures'' section at [[TreeSprite's Creatures Grove]], except for [[Terra Nornia]] which is available at [[Bibbleworld]].
 
 
A previous [[Cyberlife]] [[:Category:Employees|employee]] gives their side of the story:
 
:''The delay in payment was due to Slink being in breach of her contract - she failed to deliver the work she was contracted to produce. Unfortunately (with hindsight) CyberLife came out of this looking like the bad guys because they failed to counter Slink's public statements. It was felt a public mud-slinging match would be harmful, but maybe the silence was more harmful.''
 
 
 
Things came to a head when [[Creatures 2]] was released and it became obvious that the [[genome]] was woefully deficient, with major defects such as [[OHSS]]. An update was announced, but before that both slink and [[Lis Morris]] attempted to fix it with their own modifications. Lis was credited on the update, not slink, yet there was some evidence that attempts had been made to retrofit slink's later work to the official update; in particular, the fact that release of the update had been delayed after slink announced her modifications, and that the updated genome produced a chemical that was not used by it, but which was used in slink's modifications. [[Toby Simpson]] claimed that these had been made in an attempt to make the two updated genomes compatible - slink contended that her work had been stolen and the theft inexpertly covered-up. The issue was complicated by the fact that both parties were working off slink's original genome.
 
 
 
In the end, [[OHSS]] was alleviated but not totally cured by the update, and most breeders turned to the [[Canny Norn]]s or [[LummoxJR|LummoxJR's]] [[Nova Subterra]]. slink subsequently left the community and removed all [[Creatures]] content from her [[Slink's Creatures Collection|website]], although certain others were permitted to host it on their sites. Currently, her work is available in the ''Slink's Treasures'' section at [[TreeSprite's Creatures Grove]], except for [[Terra Nornia]] which is available at [[Bibbleworld]].
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
*[http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.games.creatures/browse_frm/thread/3a484b66805f8b77/cb8a08e868760e86?tvc=1&q=360bd3e4.20409870@news.netins.net&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D360bd3e4.20409870@news.netins.net%26qt_s%3DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&scrollSave=&&d#cb8a08e868760e86 slink's newsgroup thread: "My Suspicions Borne Out About CyberLife's New Genome"]
 
*[http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox&threadm=A41EFAA0620AD111B2B700805F0D182F662118%40cyberserver&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dg:thl2069167940d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox%26selm%3DA41EFAA0620AD111B2B700805F0D182F662118%2540cyberserver Toby Simpson's reply to slink's accusations]
 
 
*[http://creatures.treesprite.com/Slink.html Slink's Treasures at Treesprite's Creatures Grove]
 
*[http://creatures.treesprite.com/Slink.html Slink's Treasures at Treesprite's Creatures Grove]
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*[https://groups.google.co.uk/groups?threadm=36c36399.36953027%40news.netins.net Slink's final post to alt.games.creatures ("Thank you for the Valentine")]
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Revision as of 04:14, 11 July 2017

slink (aka Sandra Linkletter) was a genetic engineer in the Creatures Community. Sandra Linkletter also created the C1 world Terra Nornia. She maintained Slink's Creatures Collection and was responsible for the design of the original genome in Creatures 2, having been contracted by Cyberlife to create it with a beta of the Genetics Editor. She was also active in the community, making over 3500 posts to alt.games.creatures.

Unfortunately, relations soured between slink and Cyberlife, and arguments between the two broke out on a.g.c shortly after the release of Creatures 2; for more details, see Creatures 2 (genome). slink subsequently left the community (just as Cyberlife withdrew from a.g.c) and removed all Creatures content from her website because she wanted to have more space on her main website, and accordingly certain others were permitted to host it on their sites. This was not an attempt to erase her contributions to the community. She went on to become quite a well known and popular modder of the space station sim, Startopia.

Currently slink's work is available in the Slink's Treasures section at TreeSprite's Creatures Grove, except for Terra Nornia which is available at Bibbleworld.

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