Why "Iggdrasil"? In ancien Scandinavian mythology there is a "world tree", giant
ash that holds worlds of gods and humans on its branches and dark kingdoms of death beneath its roots.
In different translations its name written as "Yggdrasil" or "Iggdrasil". This site is dedicated to artificial life game series named Creatures, and i liked "Iggdrasil" name because Creatures games is like a different worlds.
Started back in December'2001 this site once was a biggest site of Russian creatures community
that actually was created around the site. Filled with own unique C2 and C3 content,
this site was even mentioned in an offline russian computer games magazine back
in July'2002, the counter shown 100,000 hits on index.htm, but then updates were made more and more rarely - until, finally, the
site was deserted for years.
And now it's up and back again. However, no russian part this time, i'm afraid. The community has grown up and we all lost each other. It's no more "the biggest
site" of anything, it's just a remastered content.
As of October 2010:
Iggdrasil.INFO went offline due to me not having time and will to find a
more reliable hosting company for it. The site has been down for over a year
now, for several reasong. I feel obliged at least to tell why it happened - i
had massive changes in my personal life, like getting married and buying and
overhauling an apartment of my own, and also getting into some new exciting
intereThis site is going to (hopefully) stay online for at least a year now.
As of now, Iggdrasil.INFO is no
longer the domain used by this site. Delete it.
When i failed to pay for it in time it was bought by some scammers in hope i'll
pay them to get it back, and right now it's registered on someone who seems to
be a total moron, because he/she set up a price of 340 Euros for the domain. I
might get it back when he runs out of prepaid time, through.
Old copy of the site, hosted
previously on narod.ru free hosting is
not available anymore, because it was hijacked somewhere in 2009 (which i
failed to notice, not that i go so ofter to take a look at it) and its html
content was replaced with pages containing viruses or whatsoever. I don't see
any need to reupload it again.
Report any bugs and mistakes to nina.el (at) gmail.com
What's that "elthar.org" for?
I have much more than Creatures on my hobbyes list, elthar.org stated for my own
- unfinished - website used mainly as a photoalbum, but when i moved the hoster hold my domain "hostage" and i didn't want to pay them for releasing it to me.
Then, i was waiting for the domain to go free on its own, and well... had no
interest in sitemaking after some time. It still may go online sometime if i
gather myself up.
What's new
08.10.2010
Wooot! THE SITE IS BACK UP AND RUNNING ONLINE NOW. Yet again, yeah!
I might add some new content sometime, just not today.
14.03.2008
Added content:
Not much, added "Fun Photo" collection at the Features section.
I also managed to find in my stashes the only Creatures screensaver that CL once
published and then removed from download. I've put it up for download too.
11.03.2008
Added content:
All of DS breeds i had: Maline and Golden Bengals, Feral Chicken Norns
- Rose and Emerald Editions.
Contributors page upgraded, "as always". I did not even remembered that there were
so many people with whom i had any business together. Human's memory - pretty unreliable
thing...
07.03.2008
Added content:
Blue and Red Rainbow, Green Forest, and fastagers norns for C3.
I've been pretty sick this week, so sorry that the work is going so slow.
01.03.2008
Added content:
Creatures 3 Agents and Blueprints are up for download. Contributors page
also upgraded.
28.02.2008
Added content:
C2 norns - males, females and butterfly norns, C2 ettins - males and females.
It's possible to download everything from a certain page in one zip archive - i.e.
all norns, all ettins, etc. Added the same for COB pages.
Actually, everything that i had for C2 on old Iggdrasil is now up for download.
27.02.2008
Added content:
All of our Creatures 2 COB files! Rejoice :)
Upgraded Contributors page.
You thought it's dead again? Nope. I see that the site's counter is going up so
someone's viting all the time, but you never gave me any opinion on how's it, while
i would be glad to see it.
I don't have much time for coding but more upgrades will be up soon, and i've got
a little of interest for Creatures again. So maybe i'll be up for creating of some
new content.
Older updates
16.02.2008
Added content:
Most of the Creatures 3 Breeds are up for download: Sunny, Wick, Cry, Multi,
Grape, Rosan and Mermaid breeds.
Upgraded Contributors page.
12.02.2008
Added content:
Docking Station section is now up with what articles we had on Iggdrasil.
11.02.2008
Added content:
Not much added actually: article about Creatures 3 ecosystem, Aggressive
Tribe Ettins download by Ettingirl and uploaded official C2 stuff so Iggdrasil will
mirror these downloads plus to Gameware.
Also, proper upgrades of corresponding pages
(c3 and contributors) has been made.
I'm gathering pages of DS articles and C3 breeds to upload soon.
10.02.2008
Added content:
What we had for Creatures Playground (2 small articles), Creatures 3 articles.
You know, it's kinda "the matrix reloaded", doing quite the same things that i've
done nearly five years back...
09.02.2008
First upload finished, i'm currently testing if this works the same as on my local server.
Available content:
Creatures Playground articles, Creatures 2 articles and Features section, where you can read about site's history, it's contributors and my disclaimer.
I know it's not much fun right now without all of our downloads, but there's little something for you - a web-comic in the Features section.
Probably there will be other content awailable until this day ends because i'm adding
other things. I will post the summary on them tomorrow.