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USEFUL WEBSITES
Name Host Name or Banner with Link
Webmaster(s)
or Author
Last Updated
or Published
Description
Dead Link Checker

? ? A very helpful website that will check your website for broken links so you can fix them.
Archive Extractor
 
? ? An online archiver extractor.
Generate QR Code
Adobe 
? ? A free online QR code generator.
The Spriter's Resource


??Free sprite sheets from classic games.
Freepik


? ? Free images and other assets.
Lunapic
? ? An online picture editor, has some fucntions that Paintoshop Pro lacks.
PNG EGG
? ? Royalty-free images for your website or sprites.
Pixabay
? ? Royalty-free images for your website or sprites.
Handish - Nornish Translator
LingoJam
? ? Translate englsh to nornish and vice-versa.
CAOS Chaos
 
Bedalton ? Has an online Sprite Compiler, & De-compiler for all image types as well as CAOS Editor for all games too!
 
 
CREATURES SHOPS
 
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 :-)
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Zoom Platform
Creatures: The Albian Years

? July
2004
Shop for all major versions of Creatures, based in USA
Chaos Created
  Chaos Created
Alastair Maggs, Luke Yerbury & Arivind Abraham 2007? A shop for some content created for C2
Allvideo
  Allvideo Classic Games
allvideo ? Presumably pre-koved copies for sale., is also on eBay
 
 
DOWNLOADS ETC.
 
Critter Consortium
Twitter 
(their facebook page is here)
? October 2022 This is the company that released Creatures game through Steam
Retrogames
 
? ? Play Playstation Creatures in your browser
Artificial Lens
 
Jason Riley ? Online portfolio for one of the digital artiststhat worked on the Albian backdrop.
 
Openc2e
Eric Goodwin May
2008
An open source engine project that is aiming to support C1, C2 and C3 emulation.
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
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  Creatures 1 Community Edition
Lis? June
2023
Patches to fix up legit copies of C1 and C2 includes some quality of life features.
 
The Magnet The Norn Torturer
Mark Frauenfelder February
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
 

 
Community June
2019
3 cobs
 

 
PCGamingWiki Community February
2022
Links and information
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.
 Virtual Sadism
Anti-Norn: How To Troll An Entire Community
LJ Fin February
2022
Documentary about Creatures with a focus on the infamous Antinorn
 
 
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
 
 
Old Games .com
? ? Review and download
 
Softonic
? 2023 Korean language review of the Albian Years,

Lnks to google translate
 
Temmuz Design Creatures: Neural Networks in the Nineties
? 2022 General review of the science in the Creatures series
  My Abandonware
? 2017? Review

Games Mania
Die Lieben Ja! (they're alive)
GR Staff Feb
2013
German  review
Playing God: On Death, Motherhood and 'Creatures' Unwinnable
 
> Same article on her own site <
Jenn Frank 2012 About computer games with permanent death
  TV Tropes Video Game / Creatures ? 2012 Analysis of the tropes used in the series
 Retroactivegamer Little Creatures
Ben Eastaugh & Chris Sternal-Johnson January
2010
Humorous review
  Gamne Fabrique Life Should Mean Life ? 2008 - 2023 Description of game

Game Revolution Life In Your Hands Review
GR Staff June
2004
Review
 Life in your hands review
Game Revolution
GR Staff June
2004
Great review
These aren't the Norns you are looking for
IGN Creatures Review
Chris Roper September 2002 Review
Man Who Would be God: Giving Robots Life

NY Times

Sarah Lyall February
2002
Review before Creatures was released in North America

Jeux Video Creatures
? January
2002
Review of Creatures GBA
 
Moby Games
Suzie Pendlebury
&
Robotriot
2000 Review
 
Old PC Gaming
? 2000? Review and blog
Agents from Albia 

New Scientist

Clive Davidson May
1998
Review on Creatures and its software application


CG Mag
Creatures Life Kit #1
Peter Smith January 1998 Review of
Life Kit

Creatures
Review


Computer Gaming World
It's Alive
Dawn Jepsen November 1997 Review
 

Next Generation
Millenium Interactice
Vince Broady November 1997 Review
 
The Power of Life
? Review
 

MacAddict
Creatures
Kathy Tafel October 1997 Preview
 

Game Revolution
Life In Your Hands
Calvin Hubble August 1997 Preview
'Creatures' Who Live, Eat and Reproduce 
NY Times
Matt Richtel June
1997
Review before Creatures was released in North America
 

Electric Playground

Bonnie James June 1997 Preview
 

Gamespot

Vince Broady January 1997 Preview
 Creatures, The Computer Game
Humanist
Erik Möller January
1997
Review of version 1.2 before it was out in the USA

Game.Exe

? 1997 Russian Review, 

Joystick
L'intelligent artificial
Cyrille Baron October
1996
French Review, includes a review with Millenium Interactive


PC Zone
Creatures
Charlie Brooker October
1996
Early review
 
 
ARTICLES FOR THE OTHER GAMES
 
Creatures 2 Showed us a Different Kind of Artificial Intelligence Fanbyte
Holly Speirs July
2023
Review for Creatures 2
Creatures Village
Macworld
Peter Cohen March
2006
Review for Creatures village, the younger target game series
 
An Introduction to the Ship - Creatures Exodus
TookiPalooki Sarah 2006 Guide to   Creatures 3 ship
 

CCSF 2006 Interview List
Ben Simpson 2004 Six interviews with members of the Creatures ommunity
 
Kutoka Creatures Village Manual
Ben Simpson 2004 Official manual for  Creatures village
 
Fanlore
Patchlamb January
2002
Overvire of the series and community
 
Steve Grand
? January
2002
Interview with Steve Grand CEO of Cyberlife Reserach
  
ARTICLES
 
 
The Cutting Room Floor
NeoDement
et al
March
2023
Description of the differences between the early versions of Creatures, the release, and between later versions.

This site also has pages for Prototype (Creatures 0) and for the GBA version.
Small Furry Creatures
Talon Brave
Mark Bowden December
2021
An article about Creatures 0, a March 1994 precursor DOS version of Creatures.
Is it OK to torture a computer program? The Magnet
Mark Frauenfelder February
2021
A discussion of the ethics of tormenting artificial life forms.
Alan Zucconi
 
Alan Zucconi July
2020
In depth article
Norns taught me how to code Medium
Ali Maggs July
2019
One user's journmey into programmingh via Creatures.
Case Study: Creatures
Tom Battey
Tom Battey October
2016
Article on virtual pet design featuring Creatures
Steve Grand Bio
Machines Like Us
? 2016? Description and quotes from the brain behind Creatures
The Brain in the Machine
How We Get To Next
Simon Parkin October
2015
Article on virtual pet design featuring Creatures
Steve Grand's Blog, Artificial Life in Real Life
 
Steve Grand 2013? Artificial life, science, artificial intelligence articles by the creator of Creatures
 
Game Spot Mindscape Sells 100,000 Creatures Jil Anderson April 2000 Article n this landmark sale goal
 

Machines Like Us
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment Steve Grand 1997 Paper describing the science behind Creatures
 

Creatures
Norn Doll Making Instructions
Don 2010 Instructions for making a norn doll for the 2010 CCSF
The Emotional Machine Salon
Suzy
Hansen
January
2002
Interview with Steve Grand
  
 RETRO GAMES AND ALIFE
 
  Grandoids Demo
Ettina Kitten ? Playlist for Grandoids game footage
  Abandonware DOS
  ? Old gamss for PC to donwload and learn about, includes a review for Creatures village
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

Ventrella Breeding Gliders
Jeffrey Ventrella ? Breeding gliderr CAs on a hexagonal grid
Darwin Pond
Ventrella
Jeffrey Ventrella ? Alife simulator
Gene Pool Swimbots
Ventrella
Jeffrey Ventrella ? Alife and evolution simulator, geared around breeding swimming robot creatures.
Dune Legacy
Source
Forge

? ? A modde3d version of Dune II, a strategy game, with quality of life improvements like  more modern RTS
ZZT


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