Soup of Life is an artificial life simulation with moving agents that have genomes, energy, and heritable traits like size, morphology, and behavior. Organisms are born, feed, reproduce with mutation, and die in a continuous 2D world with different ecological zones that bias evolution in different directions.
Unlike Conway’s Game of Life, which is a deterministic cellular automaton on a fixed grid, this is an evolving ecosystem. You see predator–prey dynamics, trait trade-offs, niche specialization, boom–bust cycles, and extinction events. There is no explicit notion of species. Lineages and niches emerge naturally from reproduction and environmental pressure.
For most people it works best if you go in unprepared and just watch what happens.
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Creator here. It is not Conway’s Game of Life.
Soup of Life is an artificial life simulation with moving agents that have genomes, energy, and heritable traits like size, morphology, and behavior. Organisms are born, feed, reproduce with mutation, and die in a continuous 2D world with different ecological zones that bias evolution in different directions.
Unlike Conway’s Game of Life, which is a deterministic cellular automaton on a fixed grid, this is an evolving ecosystem. You see predator–prey dynamics, trait trade-offs, niche specialization, boom–bust cycles, and extinction events. There is no explicit notion of species. Lineages and niches emerge naturally from reproduction and environmental pressure.
For most people it works best if you go in unprepared and just watch what happens.