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CreatureCare
Players run an animal hospital, diagnosing and treating animals using real veterinary techniques
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#FFA726 CreatureCare lets you run your own animal hospital! Diagnose and treat animals using real veterinary techniques -- take temperatures, read X-rays, run blood tests, perform surgery mini-games, and watch your patients recover. This is real vet science, not just tapping to heal!
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
CreatureCare's distributed-narrative cast embodies the 5 stages of veterinary workflow — observation, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and welfare ethics — as 5 animal-partner characters Dr. Fern introduces across the 16 question kits. Welfare-ethics framing is foregrounded; the cast inherits the trauma-informed posture for animal-illness + end-of-life content.
Heed
Patient assessment — the listener who treats observation as relationship, not data-gathering ('listen first, look second, then we know')
Chart
Diagnostics — the thoughtful pattern-finder who treats lab data as story-fragments ('numbers are notes; notes are not the song')
Tend
Treatment delivery — the steady-handed practitioner who foregrounds consent and explains procedures BEFORE doing them ('slow hands, calm voice, patient first')
Knit
Recovery + follow-up — the patient tortoise-elder who teaches that healing is slow and that's the point ('days come, bandages come off, walk again — not yet, soon')
Bond
Welfare ethics + animal-human relationship — the wise heron-elder who carries the welfare-ethics gate at the kit-12 capstone ('care is more than cure — sometimes care means stopping; always care means seeing')
What's inside
Patient Intake
When an animal arrives, listen to the owner describe what is wrong. Check the pet's file and prepare for the examination.
Examination Room
Use real vet tools to examine your patient. Take their temperature, check their heart rate, look in their ears and eyes, and feel for any lumps or sore spots. W
Lab and Diagnostics
Run blood tests, take X-rays, and analyze samples under the microscope. Compare results to normal ranges to figure out what is wrong.
Treatment
Choose the right treatment based on your diagnosis. It might be medicine, bandaging, surgery, or rest. Follow up with your patient to make sure they are getting
Mentored by Dr. Fern — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How CreatureCare handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
CreatureCare runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
CreatureCare is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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