Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Life

@article{Grand2004CreaturesES,
  title={Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Life},
  author={Stephen Grand and Dave Cliff},
  journal={Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  year={2004},
  volume={1},
  pages={39-57}
}
  • S. Grand, D. Cliff
  • Published 2004
  • Computer Science
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
We present a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synthetic agents that a user can interact with in real-time. The agents (known as “creatures”) are intended as sophisticated “virtual pets”. The internal architecture of the creatures is strongly inspired by animal biology. Each creature has a neural network responsible for sensory-motor coordination and behavior selection, and… 
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