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A krsnik (female: krsnica [1] [2]) or kresnik is a type of vampire hunter, a shaman whose spirit wanders from the body in the form of an animal. The krsnik turns into an animal at night to fight off the kudlak, his evil vampire antithesis, with the krsnik appearing as a white animal and the kudlak as a black one. [3]
The game is regarded as a breakthrough in artificial life research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment. [ 4 ] 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. [ 5 ]
Creatures Inc. was established on 8 November 1995, [2] with Tsunekazu Ishihara as CEO, and consisting of former staff from Ape. [8] In 2000, Hirokazu Tanaka, a.k.a. Hip Tanaka, a former Nintendo composer and sound designer, who joined Creatures in 1999, became President of the company as Ishihara went to become the President of The Pokémon Company in 2000, while still holding his CEO position ...
The faults, he says, are mainly caused by the game publishers' and guide publishers' haste to get their products on to the market; [5] "[previously] strategy guides were published after a game was released so that they could be accurate, even to the point of including information changes from late game 'patch' releases.
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Creatures Project Loci was planned as a fully 3D, third-person Creatures game based on puzzle-solving and adventure, set on the fictional planet of Cruthiar. It was in development at the time of Creatures Labs' liquidation, [81] but was canceled due to lack of funding. Loci would have been the first Creatures game for PS2, Xbox and GameCube.
The name of Kresnik has no clear etymology. Connections with Russian Khors or Xors and Indian Krishna have been proposed in the past. The name could be connected with old Nordic hress with the meaning »fresh, fiery, alive, vivid« (by Jeza, F.), but also with IE *ker-/kre-with the meaning »to grow, to feed« (by Gluhak, A.), perhaps with the Iranian root *krs-/kars-, and also with Slavic ...