Emergent

Emergent is an interactive artificial life simulator where herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores evolve within a shared ecosystem. Watch populations rise and fall as creatures develop traits like speed, size, and sensory range through genetic mutation. The simulation tracks real-time statistics, population graphs, and individual creature genomes, letting you inspect any organism to see its traits and lineage.

You can manipulate the world by dropping food, triggering plagues, or forcing mutation bursts to observe how the ecosystem responds. Built as a single HTML file with no external dependencies, the maker used Claude Opus to create the project, focusing on emergent behavior and species specialization driven by continuous diet genes.