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How to Play Neural Particle Life - Step by Step

The Neural Particle Life page loads a ~19 KB canvas artificial-life sim in an iframe. Two thousand neural-network agents on a toroidal grid - no install required.

Press Play on the page, click Start inside the iframe to run ticks, use Stop to pause and One for a single step. Tune mutation percent and generation count, then Recreate to respawn the population. Save Genome Pool exports JSON locally.

Step 1 - launch

Click Play on the game page to load the iframe. The simulation boots immediately with a static field preview; press Start to begin evolution ticks.

Step 2 - controls

Start runs the animation loop. Stop freezes the field. One advances exactly one simulation step - useful for studying a single generation boundary.

Step 3 - evolution knobs

Mutations % and Gens fields feed the genetic algorithm. Recreate rebuilds the population with your settings. Console log rows under the canvas show generation stats.

SettingValueNotes
Download~19 KBHTML + JS + CSS
Agents200011x11 perception window
SavesOptional JSON exportLocal file only
Server calls0No fetch/XHR

See when to play and vs other sims. Also Procedural Horde Game.

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