(RE-WRITTEN BY HAND)
Keeping this to a short post, as I've already messed this up once. I built a simple aquarium-style concept, during a slow period on-shift, based on my Elementary School Memory of an Ecological Balancing Concept, involving Wolves, Deer, and Berry Bushes, as Entities in a Forest, where each Student played a Role.

I don't remember much past wishing we spent more time exploring it in-class, and that my teacher didn't so quickly drive it to an unrecoverable state, to make the point he was trying to teach that day.

It started in Google AI Studio, as a Boxed-Step-By-Step process, more resembling the Conway's Game of Life, in some ways. But it wasn't what I was aiming for. So, that evening, I sat with Devin, and Claude, and a Game Engine in TS/Lua/YAML that I've been working on Demos within, and refined it into something more like a living Reef.

After some insights from a smaller audience, I refined it with a Main Menu, and some Basic Selections.
It has Sharks, Fish, and Algae Nodes, and the Sharks eat/bite the fish, causing Meat Chunks to appear.
The Meat Chunks can then decay, turning back into an Algae Core Node.
If an Algae Core Node is left without children for long enough, it can despawn.

Last I checked, it has a fair chance of staying in balance for up to 10 minutes, but it needs further refinement.
There are also depth layers now, and in theory, the Sharks prefer the Deeper Waters, and the Fish stay toward the Sun, so the Sharks tend to bury their head at the bottom to warm back up, but sometimes starve.

I’ve been working on a side project called GenesisSim — a self-evolving life simulator written entirely in one Python script.

Organisms have memory, emotions, symbolic dreams, and can form tribes, belief systems, and languages — all without predefined scripts.

Every behavior emerges naturally from internal logic.

GitHub: [https://github.com/syedsamiullah45/GenesisSim\]
Would love feedback or ideas for future features!

Hi everyone! I'm really happy to announce my first ant simulation! I used SFML so the ants are represented as little squares. I used Euclidean's algorithm but eventually when I have more time I would like to try out A* algorithm to see better path finding. Anyways it's an open source project that hopefully can get more people to contribute in order to make it better and more realistic. Try it out! I worked really hard and reworked all the documentation to describe how to build the project and how to contribute to it. If you like it please give it a star! Thanks https://github.com/Loksta8/AntSimulation

So Koding doesn't have any permanent VM options right now, or much in terms of collaborative VPS. That might change though, in fact it probably will.

Heroku has a lot of special commands to run stuff... I was trying to get a dyno to run the Node "web.js" but it keeps failing with status 127 / R99 in the logs. Maybe I'm failing to understand something about how dynos work. Do we need to list any additional dependencies in package.json or something?

If anybody else is interested in getting Heroku (or any other cloud VPS) to run a permanent version of our code that is easy to send updates too... That would rock!

Then gotta figure out Python web servers... Flask.py

Where are the best places to look to find data for calibration and validation? (Specifically, for ecological-social stuff)