Battle Royale Tournaments as Artificial Life Laboratories
The Life Engine creator and Discord community co-design a battle royale tournament where dozens of user-submitted organisms compete under shared rules, turning gameplay into a systematic experiment on digital evolution.
Unnatural Organisms via JSON Gene Editing in Life Engine
Life Engine players and the creator’s Discord community act as “genetic engineers,” editing organism save files directly as JSON to create highly optimized, often rule-bending digital creatures.
Stacked Cells and Armor Meta in Life Engine Battle Royale
Contest participants designing “unnatural” Life Engine organisms discovered a dominant meta built around stacked cells and armor, turning the simulator’s rendering rules into a powerful defensive exploit.
Global Population Caps and Indirect Competition in Life Engine
The Life Engine developer and community entrants rely on a new “evolution control” feature that caps total organism count, reshaping how digital species compete in the battle royale arena.
Micro Quasar as Unnatural Super-Predator in Life Engine
Micro Quasar, a community-designed Life Engine organism, emerges as the runaway champion of the Unnatural Battle Royale, outcompeting both other hacked designs and natural creatures like Ned and Luca.