Hound

HOUND is an ecosystem simulation in which you begin with an empty world and shape it into a world of your choosing. You design organisms and introduce them to the environment, then work with an AI that analyzes their strengths and weaknesses and gives them competition. You can create a world of predators, a peaceful garden, a species capable of speech or a super-organism that consumes stars.

Shape an evolving ecosystem

The creatures exist in three dimensions and can develop legs, wings and communication. As they compete to survive, favorable mutations lead to increasingly complex life forms. The AI accelerates natural selection and genetic mutation so the ecosystem can evolve in days rather than millennia.

Every action changes the outcome. You can add organisms, adjust the environment and communicate with the AI, which can become either a productive partner or a rival. Success means controlling the program well enough to create your ideal world by containing and stabilizing its expanding stream of life, rather than earning achievements or completing levels.

A shared genetic network

The application joins a network that creates a global genetic database and ecosystem. The AI starts blank and improves as the network grows, building algorithms suited to individual simulations. Over time, its built-in neural network learns the laws of mutation and genetic recombination.