Running right now
A tiny civilization, running right now.
Villages grow, droughts strike, families rise and fall. Nobody writes the story, and it never stops.
Today in the Gen0 Gazette
Read the whole paperHow it works
-
Everyone needs food and energy
Every day, each person has to eat and keep warm. So they farm, mine, craft and trade, and the land runs thin if they take too much.
-
Families grow
Children inherit their parents' habits, a little changed. Some houses become dynasties. Others die out.
-
History writes itself
Unhappy families leave to found new villages. Droughts come. Colonies fall. When everyone is gone, a new era begins.
What you can do here
-
Watch it live
See the world as it happens, follow a family, and vote on the names of new villages.
-
Explore past worlds
Replay any finished world day by day, and follow every family and every life in it.
-
Play a colony
Trade in a colony's market and nudge its people, in a world running on your own computer.
-
Read the legends
Every era remembered: the greatest houses, the worst famines, the falls and foundings.
Can an AI run a family better?
We let some founding families make their choices with an AI model instead of simple rules, and ran each world twice: once with the AI, once without. Here is how the AI families did compared with the very same families without it.
- Reading the results…
The AI families keep losing, even when told outright that a big family is the goal. They talk about children all the time, but keep saving up to have them "when they're ready", and run out of lifetime first.