What is Creatures (artificial life series)?
{{italic title}} '''''Creatures''''' is a series of [[artificial life]] (alife) [[computer program]]s. It was created in the mid-1990s by English [[computer science|computer scientist]] Steve Grand. It was developed by [[Millennium Interactive]]. The game is about raising [[alien]] [[creature]]s known as Norns. This involves teaching them to [[Wikt:survive|survive]], helping them [[wikt:explore|explore]] their world, [[Wikt:defend|defend]]ing them against other [[animal]]s, and [[breeding]] them. The player can also teach the creatures to speak a language, and can then tell their creature to do something by typing in instructions. Between 1996 and 2001, six ''Creatures'' games were released. The program was notable for being one of the first commercial products to create artificial-life animals using [[genetics]], [[biochemistry]] and [[neural network]] [[brain]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_vZ4O4mLERcJ:citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi%3D10.1.1.100.8744%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf+LINDSEY+HOLT+critical+study+norn&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiKpW-yllagk-uKO8f_wsWCvWM6bdgk1t6w98DE37FIVUQbXlROparPfOmv7XaQVzAW0erovrENwZ4Vy6W_1qs8RxNEAIIcogHKOe91zOc_MMju5bd-XlxuYAWmlzSIf-wa085O&sig=AHIEtbReVlSOKkmed7IZEXgADpkhJrVtiA |title= Simulation: Life inside the Machine |author= Holt, Lindsey |date=2006 |orig-year= 2005 |access-date=2012-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Marjorie A. Zielke|author2=Monica J. Evans|display-authors=etal|date=March–April 2009|title=Serious Games for Immersive Cultural Training: Creating a Living World|url=http://utdallas.edu/~maz031000/res/IEEE_Article.pdf|journal=IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications|access-date=2012-10-22|archive-date=2013-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315014758/http://utdallas.edu/~maz031000/res/IEEE_Article.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Spring/1999/SS-99-02/SS99-02-017.pdf |title=AI Beyond Computer Games |author=Stern, Andrew |publisher=Associ