{"id":3067,"date":"2022-12-13T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alife.org\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=3067"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:14:24","slug":"games","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/alife.org\/encyclopedia\/soft-artificial-life\/games\/","title":{"rendered":"Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been many games or game-like simulations that feature an <a href=\"https:\/\/alife.org\/encyclopedia\/introduction\/artificial-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"What is it? Artificial Life (ALife, a-life, Alife) is a very broad field that intersects with many other fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, art, philosophy, astronomy, and more. Because of this, it is difficult to pin down an exact definition, but you can generally think of it as anything that examines the properties&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">artificial life<\/a> perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/774541\/Species_Artificial_Life_Real_Evolution\/\">Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesaplinggame.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thesaplinggame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sapling Game<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/orb.farm\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/orb.farm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orb Farm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterfidelman.github.io\/constructor\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/peterfidelman.github.io\/constructor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Constructor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sandspiel.club\/\" data-type=\"URL\" target=\"_blank\">Sandspiel Club<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.sandspiel.club\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/studio.sandspiel.club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Programmable app<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sandpond.cool\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sandpond.cool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sand Pond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimbots.com\/genepool\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.swimbots.com\/genepool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swimbots<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomanssky.com\/about\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nomanssky.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Man&rsquo;s Sky<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SimLife\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SimLife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SimLife<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/what\/spore\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.spore.com\/what\/spore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creatures_(video_game_series)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creatures_(video_game_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creatures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many games or game-like simulations that feature an artificial life perspective: Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution The Sapling Game Orb Farm Open Constructor Sandspiel Club, Programmable app Sand Pond Swimbots No Man&#8217;s Sky SimLife Spore Creatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-category":[150,121],"encyclopedia-tag":[267,148,115,266,145],"coauthors":[117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/3067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/3067\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}