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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 |
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? | ? | 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 |
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? | ? | 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 |
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Bedalton | ? | Has an online Sprite Compiler, & De-compiler for all image types as well as CAOS Editor for all games too! | |
| CREATURES SHOPS |
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| 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. |
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| Critter Consortium |
 (their facebook page is here) |
? | October 2022 | This is the company that released Creatures game through Steam | |
| Retrogames |
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? | ? | Play Playstation Creatures in your browser | |
| Artificial Lens |
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Jason Riley | ? | Online portfolio for one of the digital artiststhat worked on the Albian backdrop. | |
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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. | |
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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 |
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Community | June 2019 |
3 cobs | |
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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 |
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Anti-Norn:
How To Troll An Entire Community |
LJ Fin | February 2022 |
Documentary about Creatures with a focus on the infamous Antinorn |
| REVIEWS & PREVIEWS |
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Old Games .com |  |
? | ? | Review and download |
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Softonic |  |
? | 2023 | Korean language
review of the Albian Years, Lnks to google translate |
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Temmuz Design | Creatures:
Neural Networks in the Nineties |
? | 2022 | General review of the science in the Creatures series |
| My Abandonware |  |
? | 2017? | Review | |
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 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 |
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Sarah Lyall | February 2002 |
Review before Creatures was released in North America |
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Jeux Video | Creatures |
? | January 2002 |
Review of Creatures GBA |
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Moby Games |  |
Suzie
Pendlebury & Robotriot |
2000 | Review |
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Old PC Gaming |  |
? | 2000? | Review and blog |
| Agents from Albia |
New Scientist |
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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 |
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| Creatures |
Review | ||||
Computer Gaming World |
It's
Alive |
Dawn Jepsen | November 1997 | Review | |
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Next Generation |
Millenium
Interactice |
Vince Broady | November 1997 | Review |
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The
Power of Life |
? | Review | ||
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MacAddict |
Creatures |
Kathy Tafel | October 1997 | Preview |
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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 |
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Electric Playground |
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Bonnie James | June 1997 | Preview |
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Gamespot |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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An
Introduction to the Ship - Creatures Exodus |
TookiPalooki Sarah | 2006 | Guide to Creatures 3 ship |
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CCSF
2006 Interview List |
Ben Simpson | 2004 | Six interviews with members of the Creatures ommunity |
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Kutoka | Creatures
Village Manual |
Ben Simpson | 2004 | Official manual for Creatures village |
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Fanlore |  |
Patchlamb | January 2002 |
Overvire of the series and community |
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Steve
Grand |
? | January 2002 |
Interview with Steve Grand CEO of Cyberlife Reserach |
| ARTICLES |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Steve Grand | 2013? | Artificial life, science, artificial intelligence articles by the creator of Creatures | |
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Game Spot | Mindscape Sells 100,000 Creatures | Jil Anderson | April 2000 | Article n this landmark sale goal |
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Machines Like Us |
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment | Steve Grand | 1997 | Paper describing the science behind Creatures |
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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 |
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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 |
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? | ? | Fansite for ZZT, a shareware ASCII game with a simplistic but sophisticated programming language called ZZT-OOP |