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Creature in the Well is a top-down, pinball-inspired, hack-and-slash dungeon crawler. As the last remaining BOT-C unit, venture deep into a desert mountain to restore power to an ancient facility, haunted by a desperate Creature. Uncover and upgrade powerful gear in order to free the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm. Download Creature for Mac to robot with a menu for custom actions. Join or Sign In. Operating Systems Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X 10.2. Download Microsoft Dangerous Creatures for Mac DangerousCreatures.toast.sit (441.29 MiB / 462.73 MB) System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9 / Toast image, compressed w/ Stuffit.
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For help with Macintosh Creatures Exodus or Macintosh Creatures Village, read Macintosh Creatures Evolution Engine!
Creatures 1[edit]
The original Creatures game was released for both Windows and the Macintosh. It should be noted that the game does not run on modern Mac machines - For further discussion on OS compatibility and emulation see the talk page.
Creatures 2[edit]
An in-house port of Creatures 2 was started by Cyberlife Technology, but never completed.
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Creatures 3 - Creatures Exodus and Creatures Village[edit]
The Mac rights to Creatures 3 were bought by Cognition Games in early 2003, a month before Creature Labs went into liquidation. It was ported to Mac OS X by Broadsword Interactive but due to the port overrunning and lack of money it did not get completed.
At the start of 2005, Kutoka Interactive offered to complete the port and distribute the title in North America, which was re-branded Creatures Exodus, and additionally port Creatures Village to the Mac too. This deal was announced on 19 May 2005 at E3 (moreinfo). Kutoka's port depends on PowerPC technology, so is not compatible with Macintoshes which were made after 2006.
Some players have used emulators to run Windows editions of Creatures on OSX, one such tutorial is available here: Creatures on OS X Tutorial.
Openc2e[edit]
Openc2e is an unofficial open-source 'clone' of the Creatures Evolution Engine that runs on Mac OS X. It is currently in development.
Related links[edit]
| Creatures | |
|---|---|
| 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 an artificial life simulation packaged as 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 known as Norns.[1]Notably, the environment was actually a physically constructed model, carefully photographed. This was to keep graphics costs low.[2]
Creatures is an artificial life simulation where the user hatches small furry animals and teaches them how to behave, or leaves them to learn on their own. These 'Norns' can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures called Grendels. 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.[3]
According to Millennium, every copy of Creatures contains a unique starting set of eggs, whose genomes are not replicated on any other copy of the game.[4] An expansion pack, called 'Life Kit #1' was released for purchase later.[5]
Reception[edit]
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| Next Generation | (Windows)[1] |
| Game.EXE | 99% (Windows)[6] |
| Computer Gaming World | (Windows)[7] |
| PC Player | (Windows)[8] |
| Jeuxvideo.com | 14/20 (GBA)[9] |
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.'[10] Global sales of the game neared 400,000 units by February 1998.[11]
Legacy[edit]
The actual model built during development & photographed as the game's backdrop, is held at The Centre for Computing History, where it is on permanent display.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Finals - The power of life: Creatures'. Next Generation. No. 35. Imagine Media. November 1997. p. 206. ISSN1078-9693.
- ^ ab'Creatures Model'. computinghistory.org.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^Alex J. Champandard. 'Top 10 Most Influential AI Games'. AIGameDev. Archived from the original on July 6, 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Jebens, Harley (February 11, 1998). 'Creatures Multiply'. GameSpot. ZDNet. Archived from the original on April 18, 2000.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)