Creatures
Creatures is an artificial life (alife) computer program series, created in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Steve Grand whilst working for the Cambridge video games developer Millennium Interactive. Gameplay focuses on raising alien creatures known as Norns, teaching them to survive, helping them explore their world, defending them against other species, and breeding them. Rather than taking a scripted approach, Creatures series games were driven by detailed biological and neurological simulation and their unexpected results.
Patches
Official
- 1.02 Update
- 1.04 Update (Some people have problems with this update, so feel free to stay on 1.02.)
- Submarine Update
- Hatchery Update
- Windows NT Patch
Bonus Content
- Life Kit 1
- Christmas Pack 1
- Christmas Pack 2
- Observation Kit
- Object Pack 1
- Object Pack 2
- Object Injector
- Norn Download Centre
Mods
As the Creatures series gets older and websites fade out of existence, the great amounts of user content is slowly fading away.
COBs
Many Creatures mods come in the form of Creatures Objects or "Cobs", renamed to Agents in later games.
- Creatures Village
- TreeSprite
- Slink's Treasures
- Forestbreeze
- CREATURES UNIVERSE has a ton of COBs!
- Hexen
- The Truth About Grendels
- The Cheese Wizard
- AmberCreatures
Adoption
You can adopt Norns that have been exported from other player's games.
Breeds
Useful Links
- Gameware's Website contains useful information and downloads.
- Wikipedia's article about Creatures which is more about basic information about the game, it's development, story and plot.
- TreeSprite's Creatures Grove, an excellent fan site.
- Creatures Developer Resource
- The Ceature Arch, a detailed blog about one individual's adventures in Creatures.