
Every creature is uniquely defined by its genes.

In this micro battle to stop the spread of an unstoppable pathogen (that you foolishly created) you battle the creatures directly in a miniaturized ship.Species: Artificial Life Real Evolution is an evolution simulator that allows you to create, destroy, observe and tinker with life on it’s never ending, harsh march of refinement! Simulated from the very first principles of evolutionary science:Variation. Unfortunately the laboratory was not secure enough and the inevitable outbreak occurred. The laboratory is where you can experiment on your creatures, cross breed creatures with other creatures, manage, save and share your creatures, and apply targeted mutations. If you do manage to take over the environment all your creatures level up and you start over competing against the next level of enemy creatures. You compete against creatures that evolved in other tide pools from other players so it is never the same game twice. At first you control a small handful of creatures and help them find food, focus on those that move independently, or just let them figure it out. In Tidepool, the world is stacked in your favor to help you select and breed the creatures you deem fit to live. Alternatively you can just start a new world and become the dominant creature there. It quickly becomes apparent that older more evolved creatures will dominate but there is always a chance you could evolve one that survives. To start you choose a world (or create a new one) and all the creatures become part of a global shared pool. You can help them along but its their world and they do what they like. Primordial Soup is a free for all evolution platform where the creatures evolve mostly independently. There are a number of games built around this evolution simulator.

Early creatures are pretty basic but they have the capacity for some pretty elaborate behaviors and, to be honest, I am not sure how interesting this could get.

It is the survivors that reproduce and mutate, just a little, but enough to adapt to their environment. Each creature is unique, most die quickly, some die a little slower, and others survive (some just like rocks, they usually die too). Creatures have DNA that defines their structure, traits, how they see the world around them, and how they react to it. Evolution is a real time simulation of the evolutionary process.
