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Procedural Creatures


Spiders, lizards, fish, snakes and chickens animated entirely from math on a 2D canvas.

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Synced 2026-09-04.

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A test of whether small creatures can be fully procedurally animated in plain Canvas 2D, cheap enough for a phone, with the verbs an idle game needs: idle, wander, poke, feed.

Controls

  • ‹ Fish › pill or / — switch creature
  • Tap a creature — poke it
  • Tap empty space — drop food
  • Follow + hold — creatures chase the pointer
  • Bones or b — show the joints
  • count + Reset — spawn a crowd for a stress test