Framsticks Artificial Life vs TankEvolution

This app lets you play with simple simulated creatures and their evolution. It features a few genetic representations ("languages"), where each symbol in a genotype defines some characteristic of a creature (a "phenotype"). Each genetic representation has its own methods of mutation (modifying small parts of a genotype) and crossover (exchanging genes of two parents to produce an offspring). The performance of each creature is evaluated in terms of speed on land, speed in water, and height of its center of mass. These criteria can be set as fitness. Since you have mutation and crossover available to change genotypes randomly, you can run an evolutionary process and see how fitness in the population increases. You can also guide evolution according to your preferences by making creatures you like reproduce and generate their random variations. If you understand a genetic language, you can even edit genes manually by deleting and adding genetic symbols, and this way build a creature you want or improve an existing one. The app features some quests to help you familiarize with genetic languages and the properties of evolution such as convergence, diversity, selection pressure, the influence of mutation rate, or the population size. Advanced users can even try their own formulas for fitness, for example to maximize both height and speed simultaneously, or to add even more criteria. Some demonstrations are included as well that show the concepts of directed (external fitness) and undirected (internal fitness) evolution, mutation, swarming, and communication. This app is based on the Framsticks simulator. You can learn more at http://www.framsticks.com/

Tank Evolution is a sandbox strategy simulation that combines the look of Battle City with the living logic of Conways Game of Life. You do not control a single tank. You shape the battlefield and watch two tank populations fight survive reproduce mutate and evolve. Every match becomes a small ecosystem where combat pressure resource pressure and terrain pressure push the next generation in different directions. Place resource zones danger zones and walls to change the rules of survival. Fast tanks may learn to escape and collect resources. Heavy tanks may hold key ground and win direct fights. High firepower tanks may dominate open lanes. Over time the battlefield selects winners and new traits spread through the population. Each tank has three core attributes speed firepower and armor. Tanks gain energy by surviving controlling resources and damaging enemies. When conditions are right they reproduce and pass their traits to offspring with small mutations. One line may become aggressive and fast. Another may become slow but durable. Evolution happens through battle not through manual upgrades. The game is easy to observe but full of long term depth. You can pause speed up reset and compare different outcomes under different maps and pressures. Watch populations rise split collapse and return in new forms. Tank Evolution is for players who love classic tank battles and also enjoy systems that grow change and surprise them over time. It is a battlefield with the shell of Battle City and the soul of Conways Game of Life.