Digital World (II): Digi-Life — Adapting Conway's Game of Life to the Ecology of File Island
In the previous post, I explained why the original architecture of virtual pets floating over X11 windows hit a conceptual wall: the world needed to be a living organism. Not a static backdrop across which sprites wander, but an emergent system that breathes, grows, corrupts, and competes for computational resources. To solve this challenge, I turned to o..
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Digital World (I): From X11 Desktop Pets to an Autonomous Living Ecosystem
For years, I’ve had an itch to scratch when it comes to Digimon video games. Aside from niche gems of the PlayStation era like the original Digimon World, almost all modern adaptations commit the exact same sin: they turn Digimon into generic turn-based RPG avatars wrapped in monster skins, completely disregarding the original concept born in the late 90s..
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