Open source simulations, games, and compact systems
Artificial life, tactical games, native Mac interfaces, deterministic engines, language tools, podcasts, and long-running research code all sit in the same public record: small systems, clear rules, and behavior that emerges over time.
Open source map
The projects below are grouped by the threads that make them easier to understand: artificial life, tactical simulation, historical games, and practical tools.
ApeSDK is the long-running public home of Noble Ape / Simulated Ape: autonomous ape-like beings in changing landscapes with weather, movement, biology, memory, language, social behavior, immune response, scripting, graphics, and native wrappers.
A simulation where identical humanoid cage-fighting robots differ only by the command program loaded into the head-resident processor. The arena models position, velocity, contact, knockback, recovery, component damage, stoppages, and tournament comparison between command sets.
Caz is a Cat Operating System: a Z80-inspired virtual machine driving a simulated contemporary house-cat droid through readable assembly programs, sensors, actuators, body skills, reflex state, and domestic or rural scenarios.
The modern urban tactical line pairs a Mac SwiftUI project with a portable C + CMake engine. The work focuses on line of sight, suppression, wounds, civilian risk, hidden contacts, rooftops, breach/search interactions, objectives, scoring, replay validation, and shared deterministic rules.
World War II tabletop-style game projects with force setup, deployment, movement, shooting, artillery, transports, vehicle damage, assaults, morale, objectives, and victory scoring. The projects keep historical framing explicit rather than treating conflict as generic spectacle.
Zombie adapts the battle-simulation approach to selected armed engagements from The Troubles while deliberately excluding attacks on civilians, sectarian killings, punishment attacks, riots, and crowd violence.
A post-apocalypse shelter simulation about routine, scarcity, tools, morale, repairs, food, water, and everyday survival after the dramatic event has already happened.
Older environmental and historical simulations that keep the focus on terrain, weather, occupations, stress, conflict, and daily life. BronzeSim uses a small domain-specific language; london1940 models a city under wartime pressure.
immersiveape, apesdk-rs, apesdk-js, longtermbrief, skeleton, jungle, musictodriveby, werewolf, and png2json carry the same habit into ports, viewers, engines, transpilation, data conversion, and compact experiments.
Field of Chaos
Field of Chaos is the tabletop-skirmish rules line behind the public fieldofchaos repository. The codebase implements Field of Chaos Gold rules as a reusable C static library and command-line program that prints rule tables and deterministic examples.
The open repository includes the rules PDFs, traceability notes, public C API, tests, and examples for character generation, skill hierarchy, weapons, shotgun and grenade handling, movement, wounds, hit locations, melee, healing, and special foes.
Podcasts
The podcast list is refreshed from the local feed.xml files in the podcast directories. Together the feeds currently represent 1,900 episodes, with the newest feed entry from Biota's Artificial Life Podcast on June 15, 2024.
