Create-a-Creature

Created for the DOSember Game Jam 2025.

Playing

Use the arrow keys to swap each part. When you are happy with it, press Done! Press ESC to exit.

Building

First you need:

• Rust, preferably installed via Rustup. It will install the right toolchain via rust-toolchain.toml.
• elf2djgpp, available on this repository
• The DJGPP GCC toolchain (version 14.1.0 is known to work, but it should also work with v12).

Then:

• If your DJGPP toolchain is not named i686-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc, set the environment variable CC to the right path.
• Set ARCH depending on the target architecture intended (default is i486)
• Run ./build.sh

You will find the .exe file in build/release/. Adding debug to ./build.sh builds it in debug mode.

Running

Add the resulting CREATEAC.EXE alongside CWSDPMI.EXE to your DOS machine or emulator. The absolute minimum requirements are an i486 with a VGA display.

CREATEAC

To run the game without sound or music, append nosound to the command line arguments:

CREATEAC nosound

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.