Over the first year and a half of Creatures, it became clear that the Creatures Community could do with far more in the way of and other assistance to assist them in creating third-party to the game. Cyberlife had promised that they would provide a proper software development kit since the beginning of 1998, and the Creatures Development Network was the result of this. This resource initially took the form of the CDN Newsgroup. However, some regulars of alt.games.creatures were unhappy with some of the terms of the proposed agreement: