| 📰 Title: | Docking Station (with LIFLG installer) | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Simulation | 👁️ Visual: | 2D Scrolling |
| 🏷️ Category: | Simulation ➤ Life ➤ Alien | 🏝️ Perspective: | Side view |
| 🔖 Tags: | Simulation; Life Sim; Aliens; Realistic; 2000s | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2001-03-27 | 👫️ Played: | Single & Multi |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2001-03-27 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🎁 Free of charge | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Free | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2010-08-20 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
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| ✨️ Not use: | ..... 📦️ Snap: |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 10816 |
| 📜️[en]: | A free (promotional, and standalone) add-on to Creature 3, a single-player / multi-player artificial life simulation by the authors of the Creatures series, in which the player hatch his Norns and raise them. It offers new creatures, and above all, the connection and interaction of the players' worlds via the Docking Station website. In particular, the player can make his creatures evolve online and observe their interactions with other creatures created by other Internet users in Docking Station. | 📜️[fr]: | Un supplément (promotionnel) gratuit (et autonome) du jeu Creature 3, une simulation de vie artificielle solo / multi par les auteurs de la série Creatures, dans lequel le joueur fait éclore ses Norns et les élèvent. Il offre de nouvelles créatures, et surtout le raccordement et l'interaction des mondes des joueurs via le site internet de Docking Station. Le joueur peut notamment faire évoluer ses créatures en ligne et observer leurs interactions avec d'autres créatures créées par d'autres internautes dans la Docking Station. |
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[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames] [CreaturesFrance [fr]] [Creatures Caves] [Albia 2000] [AmberCreatures]
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📜️ "A free (promotional, and standalone) add-on to Creature 3, a single-player / multi-player artificial life simulation" 📜️ .
Docking Station is a completely FREE artificial life game for both Windows and Linux, developed by Creature Labs, the creators of the Creatures series of games, with online multiplayer capabilities. Hatch and raise your own unique norns, then take them online to see how they interact with the rest of the Creatures world at the Docking Station.
🌍️ Wikipedia: Docking Station
The final major Creatures release was Docking Station, an Internet-based add-on to Creatures 3, released free of charge on the Creatures web site on March 27, 2001. It was intended as a way to sell Creatures 3 (you could dock the worlds of the two games together, hence the name "Docking" Station) and extra packs of Norn breeds. Docking Station has an intermittent reminder screen that encourages users to buy Creatures 3.
Docking Station added the possibility of interaction between individual player worlds; Norns could 'travel' to other online worlds via a central server, players could chat to other online players, and it was possible to track Norns (and their offspring) which had been present in their worlds via the Docking Station website. While Docking Station was released late in the series' run, it changed gameplay (and the potential of the series) dramatically. One reviewer stated that it opened up a whole new world for her online. Another reviewer criticised the online portion of the game, as it requires the player to find online buddies. Docking Station also expanded considerably on the game mythos, including the introduction of an 'anti-Shee', the Banshee (a Grendel/Shee hybrid).
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. Words can be taught to creatures by a learning computer (for verbs) or by repeating the name of the object while the creature is looking at it. After a creature understands language, the player can instruct their creature by typing in instructions, which the creature may choose to obey. A complete life cycle is modelled for the creatures - childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and senescence, each with their own particular needs. The gameplay is designed to foster an emotional bond between the player and their creatures. Rather than taking a scripted approach, Creatures series games were driven by detailed biological and neurological simulation and their unexpected results. There were six major Creatures releases from Creature Labs. Between 1996 and 2001, there were three principal games released, the Docking Station add-on (generally referenced as a separate game) and two children's games, and there were three games created for console systems. A sequel named Creatures Online is currently in development, with the artificial life technology from Creatures 3 and Docking Station updated to a 3D environment.
Overview
The program was significant as it was one of the first commercial titles to code alife organisms from the genetic level upwards using a sophisticated biochemistry and neural network brains. This meant that the Norns and their DNA could develop and "evolve" in increasingly diverse ways, unpredicted by the makers. By breeding certain Norns with others, some traits could be passed on to following generations. Most interestingly, the Norns turned out to behave similarly to living creatures. This was seen as an important insight into how real world organisms may function and evolve. The norns possess simulated biological drives which give punishment when they are raised, and reward when they are lowered. The model for norns' decision-making process is Behaviorist and based on norns learning how to reduce their drives. Dickinson and Balleine state that while this stimulus-response/reinforcement process makes the creatures seem like they are goal-directed, they are instead 'habit machines' responding in a learned fashion to particular stimuli. Mutations in the genome also occur, allowing new characteristics to appear in the population and potentially be inherited by a future generation. Faulty genomes can also occur - for example, norns which cannot see or hear, or immortal norns due to a hyper-efficient digestion system. Creatures used the emergent approach seen in animats, but with the goal of more complex behaviours than locomotion. Grand describes the psychological model of the creatures as being inspired by rats. In 2000, Steve Grand described the intelligence level of norns as being like ants. Margaret Boden, in 2003, rejected Creatures as being a form of alien life as the simulated metabolism is concerned with controlling the norn's behaviour, not on maintaining its 'physical' form. In 2011, Steve Grand stated that while the norns in Creatures could learn, generalise from past experiences to novel experiences, and react in an intelligent manner to stimuli, they could not think.
Earlier a-life programs had worked by giving their organisms a limited set of commands and parameters, and seeing whether the way the subjects behaved was realistic. While this is the first commercial program it is to be noted that other non-commercial programs had done this since the late 1970s such as the Savanna Simulator by Walter Vose Jeffries which ran on an Z80 based Exidy Sorcerer microcomputer and presented the creatures moving on a graphical grid.
The genetics in Creatures are somewhat different from human genetics; they are haploid. There is no concept of dominant gene and recessive gene, much less recombination between loci. Nevertheless, the complexity of the simulated biochemistry meant that Norn behaviour was highly unpredictable.
Among the fans of Creatures were the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins, who called it a "quantum leap in the development of artificial life", and author Douglas Adams. Creatures inspired some players to take up careers in the sciences.
Un jeu de simulation de vie artificielle dans lequel le joueur élève de petits êtres, par Steve Grand pour le studio Millennium Interactive.
Docking Station est un supplément (promotionnel) gratuit (et autonome) du jeu Creature 3, une simulation de vie artificielle solo / multi par les auteurs de la série Creatures, dans lequel le joueur fait éclore ses Norns et les élèvent. Il offre de nouvelles créatures, et surtout le raccordement et l'interaction des mondes des joueurs via le site internet de Docking Station. Le joueur peut notamment faire évoluer ses créatures en ligne et observer leurs interactions avec d'autres créatures créées par d'autres internautes dans la Docking Station.
Creatures est un jeu de vie artificielle dans lequel le joueur élève des Norns - de petits êtres vivants dans le monde d'Albia, leur apprenant à se nourrir, à communiquer et à se protéger de leurs ennemis vicieux, les Grendels. Élevez-les et apprenez-leur des tâches, leur intelligence artificielle fera le reste.
Creatures a été l'un des premiers logiciels commerciaux à pousser de manière si profonde une simulation de vie artificielle, intégrant notamment un modèle de biochimie permettant aux êtres d'évoluer génétiquement et une intelligence à réseau neuronal pour leur comportement.
Les Norns sont de petits animaux fragiles, placides, naïfs et curieux, conçus à l'origine par les Shee pour leur servir à la fois de valets et d'animaux de compagnie. Les Shee sont des êtres et scientifiques sans scrupules, ayant habités à l'origine sur Albia que l'on retrouve à présent dans toute la galaxie, ayant évolués en différentes races, après avoir modifiés leur propre code génétique. Ils sont aussi à l'origine de la création des Grendels et Ettins.
Voir aussi / See also: Creatures series (1996-2001, with Openc2e engine), Docking Station,
Docking Station est un jeu de vie artificielle entièrement GRATUIT pour Windows et Linux, développé par Creature Labs, les créateurs de la série de jeux Creatures, avec des capacités multijoueurs en ligne. Faites éclore et élever vos propres norns uniques, puis emmenez-les en ligne pour voir comment ils interagissent avec le reste du monde des Creatures à la Docking Station.
🌍️ Wikipedia: Docking Station
Creatures est un programme de vie artificielle créé dans le milieu des années 1990 par Steve Grand qui travaillait alors pour la firme de programmation de jeux vidéo Millennium Interactive. Le logiciel a été considéré comme une percée importante dans la recherche sur la vie artificielle.
Un nouveau projet a été annoncé1 par Steve Grand le 28 février 2011 : Grandroids: Real artificial life on your PC.
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Docking Station
La dernière production majeure a été Docking Station, un supplément de Creatures 3 fondé sur Internet, distribué gratuitement sur le site de Creatures le 27 mars 2001. Il a été conçu de façon à vendre Creature 3 (il est possible d'« amarrer » les deux jeux ensemble, d'où le nom de Docking Station, « Station d'amarrage » en français), ainsi que de vendre quelques nouvelles races de Norns.
Docking Station permet une interaction entre les différents mondes des joueurs individuels ; des Norns peuvent voyager dans les mondes connectés via le serveur central, les joueurs connectés peuvent discuter grâce à une messagerie instantanée intégrée et il est possible de retrouver les Norns (et leur descendance) qui ont été présents dans votre monde via le site de Docking Station. Alors que ce jeu était distribué vers la fin de la course de la série, cela changea dramatiquement la façon de jouer (et le potentiel de la série). Cela accrut considérablement la mythologie du jeu en y insérant des « Creatures anti-Shee », les Banshee qui depuis ont été décanonisés.