Evolve the Future

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evolve the future
Evolution the way God intended

You can help Evolve the Future

EvolveTheFuture is an artificial life (Alife) environment that challenges you to write a better animal. It is a simple challenge with infinitely complex and interesting solutions.

Animals can move about eating other animals and are in turn eaten. Animals can reproduce and the children are usually like the parent, but sometimes they are a little different. And in that little difference evolution is allowed.

Evolution happens slowly though, so more interesting things might be able to be created through the imagination of people interested in natural competition. Animals are written in a custom assembly code and run in a javascript environment in your browser - and everyone else's who opens this page.

The best animals are those that create a more successful species.

The best creators are those that create a successful dynasty.

Please note that this site works best in Firefox 3.5 and above. Chrome 3 and above and Safari 4 and above. It may not work at all in other browsers.

If (after all that) you still want to talk to me, email me at jonathan@evolvethefuture.com

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News

Evolution in the lab

February 24th, 2010

Here is a really interesting experiment, where the researchers were able to get RNA molecules to reproduce and evolve.

Encouraging Registration

February 24th, 2010

I have started implementing Community Scores, which will reward community members for providing cputime and for creating useful animals. The scores themselves aren't visible yet. Currently I am just gathering data.

But for this to work, I need users to register and login, otherwise the data won't be tied to a particular user. So please register and login when running the simulation.

First Post!!

February 24th, 2010

I have the blog working. It is pretty simple so far, and doesn't allow comments yet. My next step will be to allow comments. I think I will use Disqus for the low cost effort of implementing it.