A menagerie of light

Thirty living creatures, 23 species and 7 hybrids, each a seeded recipe: a row of data. One rig of nine controls moves every one of them, whether your face, your hand, your voice, a game pad or an NPC behaviour drives it.

Puppet them liveMove the pointer to attract them, press to grab, tap an intent, or talk.

Six creatures: mandelbulb spirit, eye murmuration, moth seraph, depth-video ghost, kraken bloom, moon jelly — Mandelbulb spirit, eye murmuration, moth seraph, depth-video ghost, kraken bloom and moon jelly, each driven by its own scripted puppeteer.

All thirty, moving

Each tile shows what puppets the creature as an avatar, and what it does as an NPC or a pet when nobody does.

An ecosystem of spirits

Walk among them and hold still to give a spirit your attention: fed spirits grow, breed with spliced names and pass their traits on; the neglected fade. Little prophets and odd oracles speak in the voices of old books. Distill an echo of yourself, or of someone you love, from a few words, a name and a picture.

The picture never leaves your device: the page reads its colours, and face proportions where it can, on the device and keeps only those numbers. The person pictured should agree.

Enter the ecosystem Puppet one creature

Abyss: bring one to life with your whole body

A deep-sea creature that moves with your face, hands and body and answers your voice: clap and it scatters, blow a kiss for sparks, shout for a shockwave. It speaks its own language, sings when the room has a beat, and remembers you. The camera and microphone stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Open AbyssYour browser asks for the camera and microphone first.

Three to meet first

1Mandelbulb spirit

A raymarched fractal heart that breathes. It swells when you speak, glass tendrils trail below it and rings drift around it.

2Eye murmuration

A flock of about 160 eyes that all turn to look at you, blinking out of step. It follows you and gathers when you make a fist.

3Depth-video ghost

A dancer drawn as flickering depth samples, the look of a hologram capture: the bridge to real recorded bodies.

How one creature works

species row+ seedrecipe+ time + 9 controlsposeistubes, eyes, shells, blobs, fields, pointsdrawn bythree.js on the webUnity

One body language

14 layer kinds: spine, core, bell, tentacles, eyes, legs, wings, swarm, aura, rings, chain, mouth, branch, field.
10 looks: chrome, glass, holo, neon, iridescent, ink, pearl, ember, void and cloud.
A new species is a new row of data, never new code. A hybrid joins two recipes' layers.

Avatar, NPC, pet

Nine controls: open, energy, look x and y, reach, gather, move x and z, talk.
Your face, hand, body, game pad or voice fills them; with nobody there, a behaviour does: wander, follow, orbit, guard, shy, dance, drift, school.
In a shared room each player sends {species, seed} and nine numbers, under 260 bytes a frame.