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Description of Creatures Windows. Creatures, a really nice simulation game sold in 1996 for Windows, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Mac, time to play a. Creatures 3 is the third game in the Creatures series.The game features a spaceship called the Ark with terrariums in which Albian environments have been recreated, and which the Shee have now abandoned. The ship can be docked with the free Docking Station addon to provide a link to transfer Creatures to other users through the Warp. This game is no longer available in the shops in its.
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Developer(s) | Creature Labs |
Publisher(s) | Mindscape |
Designer(s) | Toby Simpson |
Series | Creatures |
Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance |
Release | November 1996 |
Genre(s) | Artificial life |
Creatures is a video game developed by British studio Creature Labs and published by Mindscape for Windows, and was ported to Macintosh, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance. It is the first game in the Creatures series.
Gameplay[edit]
Creatures is a game which allows the player to hatch and then raise anthropomorphic beings.[1]
Creatures is an artificial life simulation where the user 'hatches' small furry animals and teaches them how to behave. These 'Norns' can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures. It was the first popular application of machine learning in an interactive simulation. Neural networks are used by the creatures to learn what to do. The game is regarded as a breakthrough in artificial life research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment.[2]
According to Millenium, every copy of Creatures contains a unique starting set of eggs, whose genomes are not replicated on any other copy of the game.[3] An expansion pack, called 'Life Kit #1' was released for purchase later.[4]
Reception[edit]
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Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that 'Some will doubtless find the appeal elusive, but Creatures still offers one of the most obsessive and entertaining experiences anyone can have in front of the computer.'[1]
Creatures sold 100,000 copies by November 1997. At the time, John Moore of Mindscape explained that the company 'expect[s] to sell more than 200,000 Creatures by the end of the year.'[9] Global sales of the game neared 400,000 units by February 1998.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Finals - The power of life: Creatures'. Next Generation. No. 35. Imagine Media. November 1997. p. 206. ISSN1078-9693.
- ^Alex J. Champandard. 'Top 10 Most Influential AI Games'. AIGameDev. Archived from the original on July 6, 2009.
- ^'Artificial Life - Evolving - Millenium Interactive'. Next Generation. No. 23. Imagine Media. November 1996. pp. 56–58. ISSN1078-9693.
- ^Smith, Peter (1998-01-31). 'Creatures Life Kit #1 Review'. Computer Games Strategy Plus. Archived from the original on 2003-07-05. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
- ^Давыдов, Петр (March 1997). 'Пособие по Разведению Норнов' [Norn Breeding Guide]. Game.EXE (in Russian). No. 3. Компьютерра. pp. 30–33. ISSN1819-2734.
- ^Jepsen, Dawn (November 1997). 'It's Alive'. Computer Gaming World. No. 160. Ziff Davis. pp. 314–315. ISSN0744-6667.
- ^Folkers, Alex (February 1997). 'Test: Creatures - Virtuelle Viechereien' [Test: Creatures - Virtual Little Creatures]. PC Player (in German). DMV-Verlag. p. 136.
- ^Romendil (January 10, 2002). 'Test: Creatures'. Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Gameloft.
- ^Anderson, Jill (November 3, 1997). 'Mindscape Sells 100,000 Creatures'. GameSpot. ZDNet. Archived from the original on May 20, 2000. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
- ^Jebens, Harley (February 11, 1998). 'Creatures Multiply'. GameSpot. ZDNet. Archived from the original on April 18, 2000.
Creatures 3 For Macs
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There are several Keyboard Shortcuts in both Creatures 3 and Docking Station that can be of great assistance to the player. Many of the shortcuts are sadly unavailable to Mac users, though some can be restored with the help of the Arrows Patch.
Creatures 3/Docking Station Shortcuts[edit]
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Key Commands | Effect |
CTRL + Up, Down | Cycles through recent phrases spoken by the hand. |
CTRL + Left, Right | Cycles through items in the Inventory. |
TAB | Cycles through creatures. |
CTRL + R | Saves the game. |
CTRL + S | Repeats the last phrase spoken by the hand. |
Page Up, Page Down | Cycles through metarooms. |
CTRL + 1, 2, 3 | Slides the right hand menus in and out. |
CTRL + SHIFT + E | Creates several Carrots, Lemons, and Justanuts. DS only. |
CTRL + SHIFT + W, F, A | Toggles Wolf Control options on and off. |
CTRL + SHIFT + X | Shows X/Y coordinates of the hand. |
CTRL + SHIFT + R | Shows the room number the hand is currently in. |
CTRL + SHIFT + M | Starts the Magic Profiler tool. |
CTRL + SHIFT + H | Finds the Hoverdoc (or reinjects it if it has been autokilled or deleted). DS only. |
CTRL + SHIFT + C | Opens/Closes the CAOS Command Line. |
CTRL + SHIFT + T | Shows the classifier number of any agent the hand hovers over. DS only. |
CTRL + SHIFT + D | Shows the tooltip classifier of an agent. |
HOME | In C3, returns to the Norn Terrarium. In DS, returns to the first metaroom in the Favorite Places listing, usually the Norn Meso. |
END | In C3, returns to the Jungle Terrarium. In DS, returns to the last metaroom in the Favorite Places listing. |
PAUSE/BREAK | Pauses or resumes the game. QuickPause changes this key's functionality. |
CTRL + PAUSE/BREAK | Quits the game without saving. |
INSERT | While pressed, clicking a creature anywhere on its body will tickle/reward it. |
DELETE | While pressed, clicking a creature anywhere on its body will spank/punish it. |
SHIFT + ALT + ENTER | Switches the game between windowed and full screen mode. The standard windowed mode allows players to use and view other applications at the same time, although full screen mode is the only mode that can run on a 32 bit colour Desktop (as opposed to using 16 bit colour). |
F1 | F1 turns agent help on and off. |
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