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ARTICLES, USEFUL PAGES &
ALIFE / AI RELATED WEBSITES
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Dead Link Checker

??A very helpful website that will check your website for broken links so you can fix them.
Creatures: The Albian Years
GOG
Creatures: The Albian Years

??This company has the rights to sell Creatures games. They are updated for modern machines.
Creatures: The Albian Years
Steam
Creatures: The Albian Years

??The most recent re-release of this game, plus C2 and C3 :-)
openc2e
Github
??An open source engine project that is aiming to support C1, C2 and C3 emulation.
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?Creatures Docking Station
??Downloads for all major versions of DS
 
The MagnetThe Norn Torturer
Mark FrauenfelderFebruary
2021
Discussion of torture of norns including interview with Antinorn
Creatures (artificial life series)
 Creatures (artificial life series)
??Potted history of the games, the companies involved and the copyright holders.
Nexus Mods entry
 

 
CommunityJune
2019
3 cobs
 

 
PCGamingWikiCommunityFebruary
2022
Links and information
CAOS Chaos
 
Bedalton?Has an online Sprite Compiler, & De-compiler for all image types as well as CAOS Editor for all games too!
Creatures - Development Model
 
??A page devoted to the exhibit of the original model used to make the background for C that was donated to this museum1.
Playing God: On Death, Motherhood and 'Creatures'Unwinnable
Jenn Frank2012About computer games with permanent death
 TV TropesVideo Game / Creatures?2012Analysis of the tropes used in the series
 
Temmuz DesignCreatures: Neural Networks in the Nineties
?2022General review of the science in the Creatures series
 

New Scientist
Agents from Albia
Clive DavidsonMay
1998
Review on Creatures and its software application
 
NY Times'Creatures' Who Live, Eat and Reproduce
Matt RichtelJune
1997
Review before Creatures was released in North America
Small Furry Creatures
Talon Brave
Mark BowdenDecember
2021
An article about Creatures 0, a March 1994 precursor DOS version of Creatures.
Alan Zucconi
 
Alan ZucconiJuly
2020
In depth article
Chaos Created
 Chaos Created
Alastair Maggs, Luke Yerbury & Arivind Abraham2007?A shop for some content created for C2
Case Study: Creatures
Tom Battey
Tom BatteyOctober
2016
Article on virtual pet design featuring Creatures
Steve Grand's Blog, Artificial Life in Real Life
 
Steve Grand2013?Artificial life, science, artificial intelligence articles by the creator of Creatures
Steve Grand Bio
Machines Like Us
?2016?Description and quotes from the brain behind Creatures
 
Machines Like UsCreatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home EntertainmentSteve Grand1997Paper describing the science behind Creatures
 
Game Revolution
Life in your hands review
GR StaffJune
2004
Great review
 
CreaturesNorn Doll Making Instructions
Don2010Instructions for making a norn doll for the 2010 CCSF
Will Wright (game designer)
Wikipedia Will Wright Biography on Wikipedia
Community?Biography and links to articles on Will Wright, co-founder of Maxis that made MANY life simulating games.
Play John Conway's Game of Life
 
Edwin Martin?In browser emulator for the Cellular Automata known as the Game of Life or Life2333
ZZT


??Fansite for ZZT, a shareware ASCII game with a simplistic but sophisticated programming language called ZZT-OOP