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| 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. | ||
| Freepik | 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! | |
| Artificial Lens |  | Jason Riley | ? | Online portfolio for one of the digital artiststhat worked on the Albian backdrop. | |
| 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 :-) |
| Chaos Created | Chaos Created | Alastair Maggs, Luke Yerbury & Arivind Abraham | 2007? | A shop for some content created for C2 | |
| | 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. |
| - | Zoom Platform |  Creatures: tHe Albian Years | ? | July 2004 | Shop for all major versions of Creatures, based in USA |
| - | Creatures Docking Station | ? | ? | Downloads for all major versions of DS | |
| - | Creatures 1 Community Edition | Lis? | June 2023 | Patches to fix up legit copies of C1 and C2 includes some quality of life features. | |
| | Old Games .com |  | ? | ? | Review and download |
| | 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 | |||||
| | 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 | |
| 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 | |||||
| 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 |