Using Video Games to Simulate Evolution

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Discover the incredible (and hilarious) ways that video games can simulate evolution. From Conway’s ‘Game of Life’ to Evolution by Keiwan, we’ll look at how games and other simulations can reproduce natural selection.
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- Games and Simulations Featured -
Conway’s Game of Life:
Game - golly.sourceforge.net/webapp/...
Info - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway'...
Life Engine:
Game - thelifeengine.net/
Channel - / @emergentgarden
The Bibites:
Game - leocaussan.itch.io/the-bibites
Channel - / @thebibitesdigitallife
Cute Mold:
Game - erytau.itch.io/cute-mold
Creator - itch.io/profile/erytau
Clusters:
Game - www.ventrella.com/Clusters/
Creator - www.ventrella.com/
Lenia:
Channel - / @bertchan9774
Info - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia
Evolution by Keiwan:
Game - keiwan.itch.io/evolution
Creator - keiwan.itch.io/
Evol Pedal:
2D Game - evolgames.itch.io/evolpedal
3D Game - evolgames.itch.io/evolpedal-3d
Creator - evolgames.itch.io/
Swimming Soft-Bodied Creatures:
Video - • Evolving Swimming Soft...
Paper - www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Evolving Soft-Bodied Animats:
Video - • Harnessing evolutionar...
Paper - direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedin...
Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures:
Video - • Flexible Muscle-Based ...
Paper - www.goatstream.com/research/p...
Accelerated Policy Learning with Parallel Differentiable Simulation:
Video - short-horizon-actor-critic.gi...
Paper - openreview.net/forum?id=ZSKRQ...
Spore:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/17...
Info - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(...)
Adapt:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/88...
Creator - itch.io/profile/paul-herve
The Sapling:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/99...
Channel - / @thesapling
Thrive:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/17...
Homepage - revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
OpenWorm:
Game - openworm.org/
Channel - / @openwormorg
Thumbnail by: / hotcyder
This video is about evolution. Not the biological evolution you’re familiar with, where living organisms adapt to their environment. No, this is about virtual evolution. About discovering the extent to which video games, neural networks, and machine learning can shatter the natural order and let us experiment with the building blocks of life itself. …And the extent to which they can make us laugh.
The ambitious dream of using computers to simulate life dates back to Conway’s Game of Life, and you might be amazed at just how far the technology has come with games like Spore, Thrive, and Adapt.
So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll take natural selection into our own hands, and see how far we can push this concept before things get out of control...
0:00 Simulating Evolution
1:00 Dawn of Life
3:59 Cellular Models
6:09 Stepping onto Land
8:45 Machine Learning
11:12 The Dream of Spore
13:25 Biosphere Simulation
15:15 The Ultimate Game?
17:35 Unlimited Power
19:28 What Comes Next…
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Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian
♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow
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  • 10:37 “Sometimes they succeed in tripping the AI up.” Throws a 1/2 ton crate at it, proclaims victory.

    @ackleackenkaker8508@ackleackenkaker8508 Жыл бұрын
    • Everyone is a gangsta until the AI evades the blocks...

      @molybdaen11@molybdaen11 Жыл бұрын
    • @@molybdaen11 we’re training AI to escape their Matrix

      @twelved4983@twelved4983 Жыл бұрын
    • the scientists aftera huge ad box predictably kills the lifeform:

      @sentienttoaster6961@sentienttoaster6961 Жыл бұрын
    • me n the boys killing the boomer

      @pipebombmailer@pipebombmailer Жыл бұрын
    • Hey don’t knock it till you try it I can say that large boxes are very useful at stoping people from escaping my basement

      @jomsolsen9888@jomsolsen9888 Жыл бұрын
  • Imagine being in class and your teacher says, “Alright guys, today we are going to learn about evolution. Pull out your gaming setups.”

    @cadenlikespigs@cadenlikespigs Жыл бұрын
    • “Good thing I have my high-end gaming computer so I can simulate a LOT”

      @user-sk5fe1yp8c@user-sk5fe1yp8c Жыл бұрын
    • Hah that would make school better

      @TopatTom@TopatTom Жыл бұрын
    • Finally those backpacks that were basically suitcases that some kids randomly had will be able to be used without wasting space

      @thederpypikachu9873@thederpypikachu9873 Жыл бұрын
    • “alright kids, we’re on the evolution module- but first rate my setup.”

      @jj_the_ent@jj_the_ent Жыл бұрын
    • If I was a teacher I would problem do that for space physics/ evolution module.

      @theprimitivebushman8515@theprimitivebushman8515 Жыл бұрын
  • EvoSims are just.. so mesmerizing to watch. Seeing an entire virtual ecosystem come to life and evolve before your very eyes, in real time, is unspeakably satisfying.

    @purplehaze2358@purplehaze2358 Жыл бұрын
    • It is amazing, but it’s also cool to see a creature and know that it has meaning and came about naturally. Makes it seem much more real than just an artwork.

      @123TeeMee@123TeeMee Жыл бұрын
    • I can imagine curious archive reading this

      @sips3812@sips3812 Жыл бұрын
    • dude i've seen you everywhere

      @koyonafri@koyonafri Жыл бұрын
    • And then killing them all, accept some few lucky ones

      @dr.ivorobotnik1@dr.ivorobotnik1 Жыл бұрын
    • I have seen you on terraria and JoJo vids my gosh

      @5XOCYD@5XOCYD Жыл бұрын
  • Another thing I want to mention about Thrive is that they've only just recently started taking tentative steps towards multicellular gameplay, it's fascinating to see this game that realistically should've only existed in the dreams of gamers slowly but surely coming to fruition

    @superspider64@superspider64 Жыл бұрын
    • Thrive is a bit lacking on the design side of things

      @123TeeMee@123TeeMee Жыл бұрын
    • Its pretty much spore 2

      @25439@25439 Жыл бұрын
    • Slowly but surely should be its tagline. It had a decade of development and imho will take atleast another one, but due its open source nature and captivating ambitious goal it will probably never be abandoned. It will be made.

      @Flobbled@Flobbled Жыл бұрын
    • @@25439 Or spore 3 since elysian eclipse is inbetween and is intentionally meant to be basically a copy of spore but alot better

      @person4579@person4579 Жыл бұрын
    • Unlike Star Citizen

      @aedenwright1994@aedenwright1994 Жыл бұрын
  • I knew it. Playing video games is the key to ensuring the future success of humanity.

    @YoungGandalf2325@YoungGandalf2325 Жыл бұрын
    • Maybe not for *your future success tho

      @accidiaet@accidiaet Жыл бұрын
    • yeah some games are in fact very good training. but you need to work on stuff that actually will teach you real life dynamics efficiently. Eco is good, I hear.

      @laurenpinschannels@laurenpinschannels Жыл бұрын
    • Depends on the game. There are directly science-advancing games, like Foldit.

      @lordbuss@lordbuss Жыл бұрын
    • I choose to believe this too

      @Pauly421@Pauly42111 ай бұрын
    • 3:59 *THE BIBITES!!!!!!!*

      @Chitose_@Chitose_5 ай бұрын
  • Imagine your simulated lifeform evolved so much that it realized it lives in a simulation

    @maiszerc2434@maiszerc2434 Жыл бұрын
    • Imagine we evolve so much that we realise we're in a simulation

      @person4579@person4579 Жыл бұрын
    • Imagine the computing power needed for that.

      @ragg232@ragg232 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ragg232 shhhhhhut mouth

      @pipebombmailer@pipebombmailer Жыл бұрын
    • Even though it’s not possible, that’s pretty scary 😂

      @blissful4992@blissful4992 Жыл бұрын
    • @@person4579 then you realize..there was never a spoon

      @pugofwarbr@pugofwarbr Жыл бұрын
  • I literally bought a gaming PC to play spore... I remember the strange feeling playing it, of being both profoundly disappointed given what I'd expected, yet still very much in love with the cute silly little game it was. To this day nothing has ever lived up to what I thought that game would be.

    @ThrottleKitty@ThrottleKitty Жыл бұрын
    • I would love a modern remake of the game but something tells me that won’t happen.

      @Blanch590@Blanch590 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Blanch590 Did you forget about Thrive or Elysian Eclipse?

      @anastaswinn4630@anastaswinn463010 ай бұрын
  • I would have never expected him to cover evolution simulators but it makes so much sense that he did

    @astick5249@astick5249 Жыл бұрын
  • As a programmer, I have absolutely loved creating life simulations, along with neural networks. The ability to watch an ecosystem or species evolve, live, move, and learn, is absolutely wonderful. It's like watching millions of years of evolution go by in a few minutes or hours. It also shows parallels, with how even us people and the plants/animals around us are all just made of basic molecules, which just react to the things around them and move, which makes us able to do things. Wonderful video, I love every one, keep up the great work CA! 👍

    @AstroSamDev@AstroSamDev Жыл бұрын
    • gDitto, I got into computers in the early 80's after reading about Conways game of life in a magazine. I got sick of doing it on graph paper and when a friend was trying to sell his apple 11, I bought it and taught myself to program. I later studied computing at uni and have been a degree qualified SE for 30+ years.

      @Tapecutter59@Tapecutter59 Жыл бұрын
    • @AstroSamDev yes yes absolutely this, it's insane and fascinating in such a profound way, realising just how easily we can simulate life now all the learning possibilities that presents

      @venetiaastrop280@venetiaastrop2808 ай бұрын
  • 11:12 - Spore! I remember it being 2008 (when iPhones were totally new) and yeah, the hype behind Spore was insane. I couldn't afford it so a friend gave me a pirated copy on a disc and I loved it but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting 😅

    @coziosity@coziosity Жыл бұрын
    • Ummm…. It was never a mobile game? It’s always been a pc game, what are you talking about? Edit: I get he was talking about a disk now lmao thanks

      @lifeiscats1337@lifeiscats1337 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lifeiscats1337 he's talking about discs. Im sure by saying iPhones were new he's just comparing the time and a popular thing back then

      @negativefg7922@negativefg7922 Жыл бұрын
    • @@lifeiscats1337.

      @EirPlen@EirPlen Жыл бұрын
    • ​​@@lifeiscats1337 someone's slow

      @CallumsArmy@CallumsArmy Жыл бұрын
    • @@negativefg7922 OOHHHH THXX

      @lifeiscats1337@lifeiscats1337 Жыл бұрын
  • It’s evolvin’ time.

    @mechanwhal6590@mechanwhal6590 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah

      @TopatTom@TopatTom Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah

      @VirtuaVirtue@VirtuaVirtue Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah

      @lvl1crook161@lvl1crook161 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah

      @darkmoonthedirewolf9231@darkmoonthedirewolf9231 Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah

      @firegator6853@firegator6853 Жыл бұрын
  • Just like you said in the ending, the future of this genre looks VERY big I would go as far as to say that this kinda of game/experiment is what will really blend the line of "What is Life", like, not only intelligence and sentience, but all kinda of lifes in general

    @silkmoth7951@silkmoth7951 Жыл бұрын
  • To me I’ve always wanted another more cartoony evolution sim like spore. I understand what games like Thrive are going for, it’s just that spore is fun, and it has charm.

    @pengil3@pengil3 Жыл бұрын
    • I highly suggest checking out Elysian Eclipse. It's another in-development evolution sim, but it's aiming for that cartoony style and has 7 total life stages: Cell, Aquatic, Creature, Tribal, Medieval, Industrial, and Space. It's been in development since last year, but there's already a public cell creator demo and a patreon-exclusive live cell stage demo. There's more stages then Spore planned, but the developer has proven that they work very hard and have enough time/resources to meet the hard goals they set on their website every month. I'm very excited for its full release. The developer estimated last July that it would take about 1 year per stage to complete, so maybe it'll be released in 2029?

      @parmenterlore@parmenterlore Жыл бұрын
    • @@parmenterlore I know about EE. For now though, we don’t have access to it.

      @pengil3@pengil3 Жыл бұрын
    • @@parmenterlore I’ve never heard of it but thanks for sharing. Sounds like a lot of fun. Something that spore always felt like it was missing was a little complexity. It is still very charming and goofy and overall good fun but for me it’s just a little too simple.

      @Blanch590@Blanch590 Жыл бұрын
  • if you're reviewing more spec evo stuff how about Tribbetherium's "Hamster's Paradise"? It's like Serina but with hamsters instead of canaries and we get stuff like lizard-like hamsters that fly with wings made of modified hair, or giant hamster mammoths called hammoths, and there's also a warmongering intelligent race of Skaven-like hamsters called Harmsters. it's some crazy stuff and a fun read

    @dracodracarys2339@dracodracarys2339 Жыл бұрын
    • Whoever wrote that must have really liked hamsters.

      @tinobemellow@tinobemellow Жыл бұрын
    • I actually enjoy Hamster's paradise and have been trying to do little fan art.

      @mr.random2877@mr.random2877 Жыл бұрын
    • massively underrated series

      @blueblaze27@blueblaze27 Жыл бұрын
    • @@blueblaze27 Indeed it is on par with Serina in my opinion. Have you read over the Harmsters?

      @mr.random2877@mr.random2877 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mr.random2877 yes, it's a pretty good take on the sapient animals trope, i like how they aren't portrayed as benevolent like so many other spec evo projects do with their races/species

      @blueblaze27@blueblaze27 Жыл бұрын
  • the soft bodied creatures at around 9:14 kinda looks like the in silico models they used in the making of the Xenobots, even with the contracting (heart muscle)/passive (epidermal) cells and the generally cube-y form. I wonder if the two projects are actually linked

    @droopsmoop@droopsmoop Жыл бұрын
    • it also kind of looks like among us

      @tanelialahuhta5841@tanelialahuhta5841 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tanelialahuhta5841 among us

      @person4579@person4579 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tanelialahuhta5841 amogus

      @efegokselkisioglu8218@efegokselkisioglu8218 Жыл бұрын
    • @@tanelialahuhta5841 fussy sussy baka

      @efegokselkisioglu8218@efegokselkisioglu8218 Жыл бұрын
  • 10:16 Gen 80 is vibin

    @kayrose3384@kayrose3384 Жыл бұрын
  • 9:29 i know i'm not the only one who thinks that this look cute.

    @atmaanu4825@atmaanu4825 Жыл бұрын
  • "Are you saying we descended from a videogame?" - Kent Hovind.

    @marcolorenti9637@marcolorenti96378 ай бұрын
  • evolution is so simple yet so complex at the same time

    @Dojoge69@Dojoge69 Жыл бұрын
    • (fill in blank) is so simple yet so complex at the same time evolution is so easy to understand yet...

      @agimasoschandir@agimasoschandir11 ай бұрын
    • And someone is running the simulation and making the rules and programing things and yet it's so complex This only means that the theory of evolution without God is false Someone created and desgined this universe and that's God

      @sifouad6945@sifouad69455 ай бұрын
    • exactly, wish they realize and analyze@@sifouad6945

      @akaishuichi217@akaishuichi2173 ай бұрын
    • @@sifouad6945 lmao no, the laws of physics are what makes evolution happen. it's the second law of thermodynamic that makes life possible.

      @kaantax8666@kaantax866614 күн бұрын
  • I remember watching a video by Wessel Stoop once (maker of The Sapling) and he said that one of the main reasons he made the game is because, while he liked Spore, it was a let-down, so he wanted to make a game that was more like what he wanted Spore to be.

    @lunarsoul1737@lunarsoul1737 Жыл бұрын
    • He made this because spore was anything but a simulation game

      @fishyfishyfishy500akabs8@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 Жыл бұрын
  • Never been this early!!! Just wanted to say love your content, you’re the channel that first got me into speculative biology and I could never thank you enough.

    @Numbskulli@Numbskulli Жыл бұрын
  • Now this, this is fascinating as hell! (This is nothing against the darker, more post-apocalyptic videos, but I mostly come to this channel for much more "natural" type content)

    @espinas5981@espinas5981 Жыл бұрын
  • I am so glad you have made this video. I have for a long time had an interest in evolutionary simulation games, and have actually played quite a few of the games mentioned, but there is a lack of videos on this subject. You have filled that lack well. Thank you.

    @modernmajorgeneral4669@modernmajorgeneral4669 Жыл бұрын
  • i just played conway's game of life and immediately made a smiley face using cells reacting to each other 💀💀💀💀

    @memerdemerhighondrugs1@memerdemerhighondrugs1 Жыл бұрын
  • Evolution games/Evolution Sims are such a beautiful niche genre that I adore following. Maybe it's the dream of crafting your own lineage of lifeforms that behave and interact like real creatures. Maybe it's being able to bring about complex interactions natural from basic rules. Maybe it's just a god complex. But damn oh damn, I just love playing around with them! Also, I'm so happy you brought up Thrive. It's got its head in the clouds for sure, but development's really picked up in the last year or so. Hell, they're even tweaking around multicellular prototypes! Even if we never see all the stages, I love watching them chip away at the problem, little by little.

    @commandereclipse5373@commandereclipse5373 Жыл бұрын
    • I been developing a free one

      @e-genes2727@e-genes2727 Жыл бұрын
  • I hate how underrated you are You can make something as simple as games and turn it into such a philosophical discussion

    @hilmandapewaukongo4225@hilmandapewaukongo4225 Жыл бұрын
    • Welcome to the game theory.

      @molybdaen11@molybdaen11 Жыл бұрын
  • that first game LIFE is literally the perfect embodiment of, like you said ''how effective simple rules can be at creating emergent behavior. it show's how life just...happens because some chemicals happened to be mixed around just right in the right environment and then BAM!!! the run away chain reaction that is life.

    @wither5673@wither5673 Жыл бұрын
  • OMG! I love all your videos, and this one really takes the cake. One of my favorite creators of content to look forward to. So interesting to learn about all these different simulators 😮💯

    @micahvance8382@micahvance8382 Жыл бұрын
  • Great video, CA! I think Evosims are fascinating to me personally because of the poetry of it. It's a complex multicellular lifeform (us) trying to understand and recreate the exact mechanisms of its genesis. So fascinated are we by our own seemingly random existence that we tirelessly create complex equations, simulations, and so on in an attempt to understand it. With the lack of other sapient life (that we can recognize as such), it almost seems that evosims, especially combined with learning AI, are an interesting attempt by a sapient creature to create something it can recognize as itself, or like itself. To create a friend we can talk to. Maybe - truthfully - we're just lonely as a species. Maybe we're like a lonesome child, dreaming up imaginary friends... except one day they might not be so imaginary.

    @mvw9078@mvw9078 Жыл бұрын
    • This gives me an idea for a story

      @ragg232@ragg232 Жыл бұрын
    • @@ragg232 I'm a writer myself, so it's all I think about. Good luck with it!

      @mvw9078@mvw9078 Жыл бұрын
  • Honestly, as much as I love this category of games and that its begun to get more traction, there's still a certain charm to a more light-hearted and less brain-required game like Spore as opposed to some of these games coming out. I think it'd be nice to, in addition to games that are more sciency, also see games that are less learning based and more fun based crop up in this genre as well, much in a similar way of spore.

    @Cyaner@Cyaner Жыл бұрын
    • Evolution didn't spare you

      @VoyagerEugen@VoyagerEugen Жыл бұрын
  • It never fails to amaze me how humanity has advanced to the point that we are basically creating whole artificial universes by simply using math and programming. Life simulators will always have a soft spot in my heart. It’s always such an interesting and cool experience to watch these “organisms” evolve, prosper, reproduce, and eventually die. Really makes me appreciate the real world and the laws that created it a whole lot more by actually seeing it in action, even if it is just a game.

    @Blanch590@Blanch590 Жыл бұрын
  • I was so happy when you mentioned The Bibites, I have been following it's development for a few months now and it's just such an amazing sandbox-esque game.

    @sarmadali7191@sarmadali7191 Жыл бұрын
    • Hiii, i have a game play to you 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 kzhead.info/sun/Y9KIgtGGZ3elnaM/bejne.html

      @historyofbrazil@historyofbrazil Жыл бұрын
  • 10:37 They threw a whole man sized box towards that dude, ofc he got caught off guard. Justice for boxdude.

    @12isaac00@12isaac00 Жыл бұрын
  • Seeing a new upload from this channel is a blessing from go- i mean science because im an atheist

    @person4579@person4579 Жыл бұрын
    • Shut up

      @Texan_christian1132@Texan_christian1132 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Texan_christian1132 Why

      @person4579@person4579 Жыл бұрын
    • @@person4579 how dare you be atheist. God obviously created earth. Who else did?

      @Texan_christian1132@Texan_christian1132 Жыл бұрын
  • Glad this video is here. I’ve been searching and have found many of these games over the last two years so it’s great to see a lot more and other people interested in these games.

    @Kevinwelch2001@Kevinwelch20018 ай бұрын
  • i just wanna say i found your channel like 3 days ago and ive already watched almost all your videos. Your work is amazing and its one of the most interesting styles of content ive seen

    @DaniTheCatgirl@DaniTheCatgirl Жыл бұрын
  • worst one is 2:32 great vid, thanks for the shout out! :D

    @EmergentGarden@EmergentGarden Жыл бұрын
    • Agree! A purple flower would be enough to destroy those simple organisms.

      @alejolab@alejolab Жыл бұрын
  • This is one of my favorite game genres. Being able to evolve your own creature, or watch as they evolve on their own... It's VERY interesting.

    @Zedryx69@Zedryx69 Жыл бұрын
  • AMAZING video. Really extensive, exploring and showing different simulations with the why and how. Games linked in the description, awesome. Just a really complete video.

    @mistyminnie5922@mistyminnie5922 Жыл бұрын
  • I am so happy to have found this channel! Thank you for exploring and summarizing and sharing! References are great!

    @njdinostar@njdinostar Жыл бұрын
  • Alien-project and space simulation toolkit are the coolest ones I’ve seen lately, although the creature evolution elements of them aren’t emphasised or very well visualised. Cell lab is my favourite of all time but it only works on android which is probably why it never took off, despite achieving amazing multicellularity mechanics.

    @123TeeMee@123TeeMee Жыл бұрын
    • On the ethics of things, it partly comes down to complexity, consciousness and chaos. If there is some great absorbtion of data and continuous operation to process it, in complex interconnected ways, that might be ethically significant, so you wouldn’t want to make disruptive changes to such things that they werent prepared for, and that can only be a question for humanity’s biggest AIs, not the tiny neural networks that accompany these virtual creatures. However, the general principles of not causing harm to life are important to hold, so in some ways, you should treat virtual creatures as if they were real.

      @123TeeMee@123TeeMee Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@123TeeMee i have tried so incredibly hard to get evolution to work in cell lab. I always have to start with a swimmer with three cells, because anything smaller usually doesnt see mutations.

      @anastaswinn4630@anastaswinn4630 Жыл бұрын
  • Here me out: non-euclidian spore.

    @balazssimon5738@balazssimon57388 ай бұрын
    • Spore already has non-euclidean geometry

      @tiedeman39@tiedeman39Ай бұрын
  • I'm trying to simulate a really basic ecosystem with types of boids and evolution rn and I really love how from a few simple rules such beautiful behavior can emerge. Great video and I hope it gets more people into this mind-blowing topic

    @nichtmal5208@nichtmal5208 Жыл бұрын
  • I just love your videos, I started watching you recently but I already really like your videos. I used to love speculative biology, but your channel has become a real Klondike for me, my ideas and dreams. By the way, I am Russian and I watch your videos with subtitles, it’s a pity that there are almost no well-known Russian KZheadrs who talk about speculative biology in such detail and interestingly.

    @user-cw8gn9rp9i@user-cw8gn9rp9i Жыл бұрын
  • I can tell this took a lot of time

    @TopatTom@TopatTom Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for making these videos. Biology and evolution have always been so fascinating to me.

    @YoungHenBeats@YoungHenBeats Жыл бұрын
    • What's fascinating about the mythology of evolution? Evolution is pure myth with no evidence whatsoever, where Is that evidence AKA transitional forms, where are the transitional forms anyways? Can you name and provide evidence of them? The earth should be cover with all sorts of transitional forms.

      @Joshua-nn9le@Joshua-nn9le5 ай бұрын
    • You've clearly missed out on an education, but I'll try my best. Every organism is a so-called "transitional form". All life forms are constantly evolving to their highest potential for survival. We know this because of genetic variation. All life forms pass down their DNA to offspring with some variations which can alter a single living thing's chances of then passing down its own genes.

      @YoungHenBeats@YoungHenBeats5 ай бұрын
  • One of your best vidéos. It brought nostalgia, curiosity, awe, and dépression at the end X) Good job love your channel, kiss

    @florix7889@florix7889 Жыл бұрын
  • I was trying to track down videos to make a playlist, and not having much luck. This is great, and exactly what I had in mind, thank you.

    @christopherwoods5150@christopherwoods5150 Жыл бұрын
  • I’m not a big gamer but I love myself some biology/ecology. I was just thinking about rain world and now this, loving this channel!

    @ruriva4931@ruriva4931 Жыл бұрын
  • As you mentioned at the end, there is also species. This game is very brutal, literally seeing creatures turning to piles of meat infrint of your eyes. The game doesn't really have many limits, allowing for really weird things.

    @Sleeper____1472@Sleeper____1472 Жыл бұрын
  • Hey, I'm loving all of your videos. I recently discovered the channel and I've been watching them all. I specially like the way you go through Biology in games. This got me thinking on other games you could go through maybe in the future, like the Wasteland of Fallout for example with its wacky biology after a nuclear holocaust.

    @kitkags@kitkags Жыл бұрын
  • This video was amazing thank you for teaching me about this genre

    @Green-bucket@Green-bucket7 ай бұрын
  • I can't wait to try these, always loved spore but was certainly eager for a bit more depth and realism 😆

    @BallisticDamages@BallisticDamages Жыл бұрын
  • 7:34 Just imagine this running at you though

    @Mapper8703@Mapper87035 ай бұрын
  • That was a really well-made video, thanks for introducing so many neat programs to us!

    @Varler_@Varler_ Жыл бұрын
  • Awesome ! I've watch a number of videos about simulating evolution. None was covering everything, and I got some new game/simulator names.

    @labonnelambda58@labonnelambda58 Жыл бұрын
  • This reminds of this computer that just started making digital lifeforms without warning one day. It has done all sorts of things like change the "biome" and altered the physics, and the lifeforms have to adapt or go extinct. This is something that should be looked into more.

    @Shoyro@Shoyro Жыл бұрын
    • any source on this?

      @catowisdom1922@catowisdom1922 Жыл бұрын
    • @@catowisdom1922 "I made it the fuck up" - Shoyro

      @EverettHaran@EverettHaran Жыл бұрын
    • Sounds like bs.

      @Hoogalindo@Hoogalindo Жыл бұрын
    • Yeah nah.

      @Pauly421@Pauly42111 ай бұрын
  • Every time I see a video like this, it makes me want to play Spore again. Even though I love that game with all my heart, it always did feel like something was missing. Guess I'll have to spend some time in Adapt and The Sapling now lol I hope Thrive is still being worked on and doesn't end up in game development limbo. It sounds like my (and many others) dream game

    @7andahalf@7andahalf Жыл бұрын
  • I'm so glad you talk about The Sapling, it deserves much more attention !

    @flechedesneiges5114@flechedesneiges5114 Жыл бұрын
  • I loved this video so much. Thank you for showing me these games, as I just happened to be looking for games like these.

    @crappyanimations9992@crappyanimations9992 Жыл бұрын
  • I really liked this video. Thanks for your work. Made me think of xenobots, a bunch of cells reprogrammed into a lifeform but in real life. Or like these artificial cells they made recently.

    @cdemr@cdemr Жыл бұрын
  • I’ve been following the Bibbits

    @CalvinBloopers@CalvinBloopers Жыл бұрын
  • An absolutely incredible video! thank you so much for this :)

    @JayKay-xz6qg@JayKay-xz6qg Жыл бұрын
  • A human puts in an algorithm with his presuppositions, and desired outcomes that creates a program to simulate the human desired outcome. Best demonstration i have ever heard. 👍

    @thesis-and-nieces6722@thesis-and-nieces6722 Жыл бұрын
  • This reminded me of the The TechnocCore from sci-fi series "The Hyperion Cantos". It's a sentient AI kind that that exists on its own realm and wich evolved from an evolution simulator just like the first ones you showed us.

    @JONEPUNK@JONEPUNK Жыл бұрын
  • Oh wow--LOVE this!

    @elizabetho.7484@elizabetho.7484 Жыл бұрын
  • Your videos touch so interesting subjects and are so intertaining and calming I love them

    @jujuoof174@jujuoof174 Жыл бұрын
  • I love your vids so much pls keep it up!

    @DextersStuff@DextersStuff7 ай бұрын
  • I would honestly watch a full length documentary about this.

    @smile--@smile-- Жыл бұрын
  • I remember seeing the first spore prototype back in the mid to late 2000s. Seeing it and comparing it to the game we got, I feel that it looked better then the final release. Still enjoyed it but I would love to play that prototype. Adapt looks like the Spore game that we should have gotten.

    @Wnick1996@Wnick1996 Жыл бұрын
  • This is an amazingly great video! I never looked at Spore as an actual evolution game since there seems to be no like AI or natural selection and just you playing with premade models. However the highlights shown in this video are really good, especially biosphere simulator. As someone who loves pouring hours into editing small stuff like what that game allows, I'm all in for it. That game is just too cheap to not play, a game so complex shouldn't be like 9 dollars.

    @tomsterbg8130@tomsterbg813011 ай бұрын
  • Incredible video! So many things out there to play with

    @Nurpus@Nurpus Жыл бұрын
  • Glad you devoted an entire chapter to my favorite game, Spore.

    @williekopenski8471@williekopenski8471 Жыл бұрын
  • Another one like adapt and spore is called Elysian Eclipse. I think you should feature that one too.

    @gloryarrowthescaredhamster@gloryarrowthescaredhamster Жыл бұрын
  • I remember around 2006 or so I used to poke around at another evo sim called Darwin Pond that would simulate generational adaption and mutation, at a rate that you could play with. I certainly think my interest in these were directly tied to my hype for Spore ahaha

    @seanmaclean1341@seanmaclean1341 Жыл бұрын
  • digging this new editing style!

    @juke_b0xx@juke_b0xx Жыл бұрын
  • i love this channel, it feeds my curious brain

    @teacupanimates@teacupanimates Жыл бұрын
  • On one hand, I am so sad that this video hasn't introduced me to any new games. on the other, I am so happy that so many games I have interest in are getting attention

    @zackarieneifert7014@zackarieneifert7014 Жыл бұрын
  • This is the funniest video i think you have made lol. Just the chaotic music at the beginning and the humor throughout the video.

    @evangelineaudet7242@evangelineaudet72424 ай бұрын
  • Why does no one know/remember Creatures? That was one of the most complex (I say this knowing practically nothing about programming) games I’ve EVER seen! And it’s been around since the 90s! So... Start with an egg, that hatches into one of a number of “starter” creatures called Norns. They learn, think, and grow, just like small children. And when they get to adult stage, they can even breed, creating a brand new Norn with genetics from both parents. You can even get them to teach each other! Honestly, it’s easy enough to learn, and even kids can follow along, but when you actually take the time to get into details, it’s actually pretty hard to master.

    @NoArtisticLimitation@NoArtisticLimitation Жыл бұрын
    • I gave the most bare bones explanation, tbh. There’s so much more than just what I put.

      @NoArtisticLimitation@NoArtisticLimitation Жыл бұрын
  • Another game that is building on the outline of Spore is Elysian Eclipse. There are some videos showing off the upgraded customization options, and they are planning cell, aquatic, creature, tribal, medieval, industrial, and space stages.

    @cheetocabra@cheetocabra Жыл бұрын
    • But it doesn't have natural selection, does it? Also, like Elysian Eclipse, there's a game called Thrive based off of Spore, but it's 10x more realistic and has actual evolution

      @tristanmisja@tristanmisja Жыл бұрын
    • @@tristanmisja Elysian esclypse is still going to be great. It will be spore, but better. Also, unlike Thrive it will be completed in the next decade.

      @jiraffe9600@jiraffe9600 Жыл бұрын
  • i remember an old concept of mine i once called the "5 feelings" it had the variables like pleasure, displeasure, confused, etc. always thought how various beings would interact with themselves if they had the "5 feelings".

    @survroproductions200@survroproductions200 Жыл бұрын
  • Great that you're also looking at life simulators!!!

    @THE_ONLY_REAL_WAFFLE@THE_ONLY_REAL_WAFFLE Жыл бұрын
  • RAHHHH I LOVE EVOLUTION GAMES

    @wolfytda@wolfytda Жыл бұрын
  • i remember one of my childhood dreams was to create artificial life from nothing; it was surprisingly, almost disappointingly, easy

    @khlorghaal@khlorghaal Жыл бұрын
  • this video is absolutely fascinating! thank you

    @TheWobolo@TheWobolo Жыл бұрын
  • This is an awesome way to show what it would be like for evolution to exist. Videogame tech ftw!

    @Sky.Lukewalker@Sky.Lukewalker Жыл бұрын
  • About the games inspired by Spore. I personally LOVE this trend of people who grew up playing imperfect games by big companies and go on to develop high quality indie titles that end up surpassing or building on those games, you see a lot of those coming from fans of Maxis (now EA) games like Spore itself, Sims and Sim City. In a way I guess that's a kind of evolution too.

    @Jasper_Silva@Jasper_Silva Жыл бұрын
    • Big corporations tend to "play it safe" and try to appeal to a wide audience, plus a bigger team can lead to a "too many cooks" situation. Since the biggest motivator is profit, big studios will try to cut costs more often. Meanwhile smaller studios and devs are usually more passion driven (there are definitely exceptions to this, plenty of people are out to make a quick buck). People working on passion projects have the goal of making the best possible version of the idea inside their heads. This shift in goal from profit to product can have drastic affects on the final product's quality. However,successful profit-driven studios tend to amass more resources since they are larger, so its not always easy to make direct comparisons.

      @dimetrodon2250@dimetrodon2250 Жыл бұрын
  • This is a topic I've been interested in for a long, long time. Not a lot going on in simulated evolution lately, mostly just machine learning stuff (NOT AI) so it's refreshing to see stuff I'm familiar with.

    @higgsbonbon@higgsbonbon Жыл бұрын
  • I feel like usually the most basic ones are actually the most realistic ones and the ones that are closest to real life animals because they were never made to become lifeforms, they just did based off of the rules, which is exactly how it hapened in real life. Meanwhile other evolution games are coded to have life. Also you mentioned all the cool details in the sapling, but completely forgot to mention how you can just leave your creatures to evolve without any interference.

    @f5tornado831@f5tornado8318 ай бұрын
  • this is something i’ve wanted to make for quite a while, as part of a larger game with a focus on realism and making the player do actual science. though i want to simulate life at the planetary level, so it wouldn’t be simulating individual organisms unless you’re nearby. but it’s too ambitious for just me and where i’m at in life, so it’s been on pause for a couple years i think. also on my list of stuff i want to do for it is simulating plate tectonics and a coarse version of the evolution sim to create a fossil record so it’s up to the player to figure out how the life came to be.

    @morgan0@morgan0 Жыл бұрын
  • 10:40 "While sometimes they'd succeed in catching the AI off guard" Bruh you'd fall too if a boulder twice your size was yeeted at you

    @Gameknight2169@Gameknight2169 Жыл бұрын
  • why are there creationists in this video

    @iaintneednoIDforthis@iaintneednoIDforthis Жыл бұрын
    • because they like to tell people how dumb they are

      @agustinfranco0@agustinfranco0 Жыл бұрын
  • The quality of this video is extraordinary

    @marcogiorgini8566@marcogiorgini8566 Жыл бұрын
  • Ive been watching the bibites for a while seeing it here made me so happy :)

    @iLikeDucks_@iLikeDucks_ Жыл бұрын
  • Lovely

    @jonhall467@jonhall467 Жыл бұрын
  • You could make a documentary-style video about the "Zone"'s biology from STALKER (Anomaly, but the others could do as well, they are all quite similar). From what I understand, the games do have an ecosystem of sorts that is not centered around the player.

    @gaborholotajr.4427@gaborholotajr.4427 Жыл бұрын
    • im unfamiliar with stalker's technique, but theres an enormous difference between presenting it that way using gamedev facade techniques, versus actually simulating the interactions

      @khlorghaal@khlorghaal Жыл бұрын
  • this is one of my favorite videos of all time

    @Johnnydt@Johnnydt Жыл бұрын
  • An incredible video! Thank you, sir.

    @knownas2017@knownas2017 Жыл бұрын
  • whe need a spore 2

    @christianmarx3249@christianmarx3249 Жыл бұрын
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