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. Some creatures respond quickly, others take their time - just like in nature there are different levels of interactivity.

Here are some of our favourites.

Squidlets

Add your face to a digital creature using the touchscreen, then watch it join a sea of Squidlets, searching for food and competing for survival.

Multiple

Multiply yourself across the screen in organic patterns inspired by plant growth, weather cycles and cell division.

Starfish

The black and the white starfish inhabit an ever-changing watery world shared with other species. Webcams around the space feed the screens with audience motion, affecting the community.

Animats

Build your own animal robot using a touchscreen interface.  Combine animating body parts to define its movements and then release it into the Microworld.

Cockatoo Squid

A musical companion. Sing, whistle, or call to it, and it will respond in playful, digital song.

Globster

Become a playmate for this squishable, squashable little alien.

It’s Alive! Ants

Draw with your body. Digital ants cluster around your outline, tracing your movements and leaving glowing echoes inspired by pheromone trails.

SeaPeople

Build a dynamic and chaotic world. Use the mobile apps and touchscreens to engage with a multi-layered ecosystem where you have the power to change everything.

Tangled Bank

Become a swarm of aphids, munching through the endless vegetation. Though your force is destructive, digital nature triumphs in an endlessly regenerating world.

Aeroplankton

Reveal the creatures of the airwaves. Clap, sing and whistle — different frequencies create different pulsating life forms.

SEED

Use the touchscreen to draw shapes and choose the rules in this Cellular Automata program. Small changes can have huge ripple effects as organic patterns spread across the screen.

The Mesh

Enter the underground world of fungus and mushrooms. A sensor transforms your silhouette into a living mycelium mesh, seeking new pathways for nourishment.

Our latest creature was designed for the Fungi Town Festival in Wales

 "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