Artificial life demos you can play with right now

More than ten artificial life demos, each running live on its creator's own site: all of them playable in your browser with nothing to install. Press a card to play one on its own page, or start the cruise to ride through them one after another.

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• id le A little world of creatures that live in your browser: they eat words, plot charts, dream, gossip, build huts, dance to your DJ sets and…
• js primordialparticles This is an unofficial JS clone of the PPS System for cool demonstration purposes. It runs perfectly on an iPhone 6 but might not run…
• slime mold lab A single-file, no-dependency browser simulation of Physarum polycephalum, the yellow slime mold that builds efficient transport networks…
• game of life An interactive, Matrix-styled Conway's Game of Life: click cells to seed a pattern, randomize, start, pause and control the speed, with an…
• orbium Lenia in the browser. Lenia is a cellular automaton with smooth states, smooth neighbourhoods and smooth time, and under the right rule it…
• AlienLifeEngine A world where every organism that can see thinks with an evolved neural brain — and half of that mind is not its own. Nothing is taught…
• infinite becoming A small, local, browser-playable ecosystem toy prepared for Spark. It runs without third-party runtime dependencies and makes no claim to…
• argon No React. No Three.js. No external audio files. No build step. Up to 4,200+ autonomous bio-luminescent agents self-organizing into mitotic…
• plasma "Code is not carved in stone; it is cultivated in the fertile soil of emergence." Plasma transforms your browser into a digital Petri dish…
• eden zero You don't control life. You define its laws. Eight humans wake up beside a river with a genome, a body that gets hungry, thirsty, cold and…
• aeon garden A cozy cooking game in a painted meadow. You'll gather what the meadow gives, build up a kitchen from a campfire, and cook. The cooking…🔥 1
• petriarch The aesthetic is cyber-net / netrunner: agents are glowing nodes, kin-cohesion is drawn as lit network edges, lineages are hues, and a…
• lights A dark field where forty points of light drift, bond, age and speak, so watching it rewards attention instead of asking for it. Each light…
• game of society Write local rules. Watch societies emerge. Game of Society is a browser-based programmable cellular automaton. Give cells properties such…
• Origin Try it live at origindish.net · @OriginDish on X Origin is a living dish of simple cells, each with its own tiny brain. They eat, move…
• number snake A grid of small numbered cells with a blue creature, shaped after a white blood cell, that wanders across it and hunts red-and-black…
• hyperbolic particle life Artificial life on a closed surface of curved space. Thousands of particles, one simple rule, and a universe shaped like a two-holed donut…
• HexLife A high-performance laboratory for cellular automata on a hexagonal grid. Design rules, paint and preserve patterns, compare nine worlds…
• boids society A little society, behind glass. Not another flocking demo. These boids pair up and drift apart, raise families, grow old, catch epidemics…
• generative art piecemuseum of emergence museum of emergence A living museum of self-organising systems. Eight rooms, each a real-time implementation of a published model in which simple local rules…
• Lenia Lenia is a 2D cellular automata with continuous space, time and states. It produces a huge variety of interesting life forms. There are…