Sure, I'd love to see it when it's done! You can also contact me at keiwando.com/contact, so it doesn't get lost in my itch.io notifications.
Good luck with your project!
It just picks a random sentence from this translation of the short story: https://maskofreason.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/the-library-of-bab...
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Which browser are you using? Can you maybe post a screenshot of the error message?
You could also try to use the itch.io app to download and run games from itch.io: https://itch.io/app
I haven't been able to reproduce this at all. Could you maybe send me the log file after a crash? Here's the path where you can find it on Windows:
C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\LocalLow\Keiwan Donyagard\Evolution\Player.log
You can find my contact e-mail at keiwando.com/contact
I have listed all of the videos that I originally watched that inspired me want to try to make my own evolution simulator in the description of this video:
I hadn't come across any of the carykh videos until after the initial release of mine. These kinds of simulations have exited for a very long time (way before 2015) and there are tons of them out there.
There's already a way to get it for free. The entire source code is available here: https://github.com/keiwando/evolution, so you can download it and download Unity (also for free) and build the windows version yourself.
The downloaded file is a ZIP file of a folder. You need to unzip that somewhere on your PC and then inside of the folder is an Evolution.exe file, which you should be able to double click in order to start it. Let me know if that doesn't work and if so, what happens instead of Evolution launching.
I haven't used the itch.io launcher myself but I suppose that would simplify all of this to just downloading Evolution through the launcher and then clicking "Launch" in there. You could also try that.
The number of creatures is not decreasing, but they are slowly converging towards the exact same behaviour, so it looks like there are fewer individuals (since they are perfectly overlapping each other). I have seen this happen with certain simulation settings, so try changing the mutation rate, mutation algorithm and recombination algorithm. Are you using "Chunk" as the mutation algorithm by any chance?
A special build of Evolution that allows playback of legacy simulation saves.
http://keiwan.itch.io/evolution <- This is the main game you want to play
You can use the "Export" button in the save file selection window to save them to an arbitrary location.
If you just want to copy the entire folder you can find it at
C:\Users\<userprofile>\AppData\LocalLow\Keiwan Donyagard\Evolution
or if you use a Mac
~/Library/Application Support/Keiwan Donyagard/Evolution
There should be two folders there: "EvolutionSaves" and "CreatureSaves"