ALIVE
They don’t know they’re being watched.
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Credits
ALIVE — a god's-eye observation simulator.
You cannot give orders. You can only observe.
Hostile Environments
Designed by
Joel Lauver
Sound design
Joel Lauver
Code, art and simulation
Built together by Joel Lauver and Claude.
Built with
Plain JavaScript and a 2D canvas. No engine, no framework, no dependencies. Every tree, person, building and note of music in this game is drawn or synthesised from code at runtime.
The world
Every run is generated from its seed and simulated ten times a second. Nothing that happens in it was written in advance.
The Watch Is Ended
They carried on without you, and then they stopped.
You can close this tab, or go back and begin again.
Broken country. Small islands, long coasts, and a boat needed to reach the next one.
The usual world. Room for a few peoples and a frontier between them.
They wake together in one camp, half of them men, half women.
Hunger, cold, sickness and wolves are all real. Some of them will not make it.
They feel what the person beside them feels, most of the time.
Peoples fall out and make up at about the rate you would expect.
Capable of either. Which one shows depends on the year they are having.
Four seasons, and none of them will kill you outright.
Enough wood, stone and berries to build a life on, if they are sensible.
They wake with empty hands and no idea what fire is for.
Affairs and betrayals, feuds and wars, and what comes out of the dark. Nothing here is gory — a fight throws sparks.
You cannot give orders. You can only observe.
