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Insula

A running argument about what the old city builders got right, made out of cities that simulate.

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The question

Will people who loved the 1998 city builders press a button asking for a modern one, after being shown the mechanics rather than told about them?

Current decision

Still running
Experiment log4
  1. launched — three simulated cities, one of them breakable
  2. nothing on the page is a screenshot: the walker paths, the field is computed, the houses are drawn at the rung they hold
  3. no art, code or data from any existing game — every shape is drawn from its footprint at runtime
  4. no price and no email box: the only metric is whether strangers ask for the sandbox

What happened

Nobody yet.

The funnel is wired up and reporting; the counters are simply still at nothing. They fill in as people arrive, and they are the same numbers shown on the experiment itself — there is not a second set kept somewhere private.

gamesimulationfree

This page stays up whatever happens to the experiment. A dead experiment is still evidence.