Vilmonic

Vilmonic is a living virtual world where you work to bring life back from the brink of extinction. You protect and breed pixel-art life forms, change their environment, craft tools and construct buildings. As you explore the past by digging up ancient technology, you also fend off mindless haywire zombitons.

Life and behavior

The genes of animatroids and fungols determine their bodies. Genes control how internal bones or branches bend; pixels cover these structures to form a body. Its shape and pixels determine biological functions such as hydration, nutrient use, movement and perception.

Each life form has a metabolism that processes hydration and nutrients at a rate set by its metabo gene. Larger bodies, with more pixels, need more hydration and nutrients each metabolic cycle, while surface area determines how much hydration evaporates. Wrinkled bodies have more surface area.

Animatroids have simple graph-shaped brains that produce behaviors such as fear, aggression and attraction. Their genes set rules for behavior, and their brains connect relationships of attraction or repulsion between external sensors for motion, scent and water, and internal sensors for hunger, stress and thirst.

Breeding and evolution

Natural selection and breeding are the ways to evolve life forms, unless you use genetic engineering. Animatroids and fungols pass their genetic code to their offspring, with a chance of mutation, and can evolve into new species over many generations. Evolution is slow; sugary beverages can speed it up, while toxic waste can cause drastic mutations in offspring, with potentially dangerous effects.

Crafting and sharing

You can craft tools, build structures and alter the environment. You can also export creature cards to share your creatures with friends.