A world of digital creatures
Microworld is filled with digital creatures. We have created around 30 different creatures to choose from and are developing new ones all the time. We will select creatures for you responding to your space, your themes and your audience. Different creatures use different interaction techniques from full body interaction to touch screen interfaces. Here are some of our favourites.
Squidlets
Become Digital Art!
Join the sea of Squidlets, looking for food and competing for survival.
Webcam and Touchscreen Monitor
The Starfish
An ever-changing watery world
A community of creatures respond to changes in the gallery.
Webcam
Multiple
Throw some shapes!
Multiply yourself across the screen in mesmerising patterns.
Kinect sensor
Globster
Squishable, Squashable, Squelchable
Become a playmate for this cheeky little alien.
Kinect sensor
Cockatoo Squid
A musical companion
The Cockatoo Squid listens out for inspiration. Sing to it and the squid will sing back to you.
Kinect sensor
Animats
Build your own animal robot
Design and create an Animat and see how well it survives.
Webcam and Touchscreen Monitor
SEED
The visual coding machine
Draw patterns and choose rules in this Cellular Automata program. Small changes can have huge ripple effects.
Touchscreen Monitor
Tangled Bank
Let’s eat!
Become a swarm of aphids, munching through the endless vegetation.
Kinect sensor
Aeroplankton
Creatures of the airwaves
Clap, sing and whistle. Different frequencies create different shapes.
Webcam and mic
It’s Alive! Ants
Draw with your body
Tiny ants are attracted to your silhouette. As you move, you leave traces of past actions.
Kinect sensor
SeaPeople
Building a dynamic and chaotic world
Engage in a multi-layered ecosystem where you have the power to change everything.
Touchscreen Monitor
The Mesh
A social network
Responding to your movements, fungal hyphae test different pathways to find nourishment.
Infrared sensor
"Microworld, a dynamic realm filled with artificial creatures inspired by nature that the participants themselves could design and then watch as they evolved and travelled through space."
- Rebecca Anne Procter, Harpers Bazaar Arabia. Microworld Ithra 2019