The game was officially announced on 16th May 2011 and will be the first Creatures game for iOS and Android. BluesNews were able to confirm that the free-to-play game will be microtransaction-based (small fees), though "most of the content will be entirely free. Bigben, the publishers, were given the rights to distribute Creatures Online, and all of the previous Creatures games in Europe. In approximately 2009, Fishing Cactus floated the idea of C4 amongst themselves and approached Gameware. Fishing Cactus then contacted BigBen Interactive about the game, and they provided funding.