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AEON — Current Status

Last updated: 2026-06-14 (end of Day 2)

Reality check (drlor): a real leap today — ~6.5–7/10 "plays as a game", aiming S+

Day 2 turned a flat top-down sim into a beautiful, animated 3D game you can win or lose and learn to play: a WebGL2 3D world (figures, procedural buildings, day-night) live in-game, an onboarding tutorial

  • universal tooltips, a leader-AI that keeps a hands-off nation alive, and a real fail-state — a game-breaking false-defeat bug was caught on the live build and fixed. The ECONOMY (items/drops/mines/ farms/trade) and DEEPER BRAINS (richer senses/acts + recurrent memory) are LANDED but DORMANT: committed, headless-green, awaiting their sim.js wiring (the first job next session). Still NOT S+: hard-seed survival balance is unsolved, the economy + brains aren't switched on yet, and victory/end-screen + audio
  • roads/traffic + mobile polish remain. Keep grinding, report plainly. (Sprint 1 detail is below.)

AEON = a browser god-game/civ-sim where every creature is a real, evolving neural network. God + nation + avatar agency. Local-only, no servers, open source, zero deps. Run: npm run serve → http://localhost:8123 (or open index.html via any static host).

What works now (verified against the code + headless test)

Sprint 1 fixes (2026-06-13, all verified in-tree)

  • ~29x render perf (#4, CLOSED). src/render/renderer.js adds viewport culling, a dpr/quality governor (_applyQuality('auto')), a renderScale clamp, and LOD/particle thinning. Measured ~33.9 ms → ~1.2 ms/frame at zoom 8.2 (~29x); live-verified ~6.8 ms at zoom 8 with ~2,200 agents. This is what fixed the GitHub Pages load on dpr 2–3 devices. Closed by d672faa.
  • Found-a-City is now reachable (#1, CLOSED). src/sim/territory.js sets TREASURY_RESERVE = 12; auto border-expansion only spends gold above that floor, so a young nation banks past the 10g found cost instead of sitting at 0–2 forever (reaches ~12 gold by year 3; live build showed 28.6 gold). Closed by d672faa.
  • Found rejections now explain themselves (#2, CLOSED). src/sim/settlement.js relaxes min-spacing 8 → 5 tiles (FOUND_MIN_SPACE = 5) and sets lastFoundReason to 'water' / 'occupied' / 'too_close', surfaced as a toast in src/game/game.js. You now learn why a tile was rejected. Closed by d672faa.
  • Pathfinding wired into orders (#3, still OPEN — see below). src/sim/pathfind.js (flow-field; exports buildField / stepFrom) is imported in src/sim/sim.js and drives the order block for foot units (replacing the old 6-angle deflector). An ordered unit now routes around water/mountains and arrives in isolation (probe 48.6 → 1.2 tiles). Landed in d672faa as Refs #3; issue kept OPEN on purpose because real-play long marches still fail (coupled to #8).
  • CI invariant gate (INFRA). .github/workflows/ci.yml runs node test/headless.mjs on every push/PR to main and exits non-zero on regression. package.json adds test and serve scripts. Currently GREEN (life persists, evolution to gen ~27, population stable). Landed in 87a13d6.

The living world (pre-existing, still true)

  • Every creature is an evolving neural net. Tiny MLPs think every tick; traits measurably evolve under the energy economy. Headless test confirms life persists and evolves.
  • Civ-first loop: Survival/Creative start, create-a-people (name/banner/heritage genome), tech tree, civics → governments, emergent anthropology/ethos, permanent settler-founded cities, territory/borders, a living map, full resource economy (gather → haul → stockpile → refine), thirst, combat/unit-roles, diplomacy/war/destinies (AI nations self-run), animals, vehicles, universal clickable entities.
  • Dual agency: god tools, nation policy injected into citizens' NN inputs, possession, all via UI + window.AEON debug API.

What is still broken / the next priority (honest)

  1. #8 (P0) — END SCREEN + VICTORY now SHIP; passive-collapse balance still OPEN. AEON is now winnable AND losable: ui.showEndScreen('defeat'|'victory', tribe, game) renders a real run-summary overlay (years lived / era / peak pop / generations / cities), and game.js triggers victory when the player reaches the Information Age (era 8, reachable — headless hits it by ~yr 100) and defeat when the player nation is wiped after it has lived. Both verified in-browser. STILL OPEN: the underlying survival balance — the player nation can still passively trend toward extinction (~52 → 26 by yr 30) before the fail-state catches it. Next: tune hard-seed survival so collapse is a choice/consequence, not the default.
  2. #8 (P0) — MARCH-SURVIVE. Ordered units do not forage or rest mid-march, so on a long march they run down and stall. In real play a 3-soldier army ordered 35 tiles closed only ~28% in 400 ticks, even though isolated pathfinding probes arrive. Pathfinding is correct in isolation; the survival/order coupling is the broken link. This is why #3 stays OPEN and command does not yet FEEL good over long distances.
  3. #5 (P1) — command/found modes are not discoverable. They are silent toggles with no banner/cursor/coach-mark. Nothing shipped for this in Sprint 1.

In flight (landed but NOT shipped/wired — next slices)

  • 3D renderer (#9) — direction locked to WebGL2 (Citystate-referenced) in GRAPHICS_3D_DESIGN.md (committed f0d77a2). A real spike exists in the working tree — src/render/gl3d.js (class GL3D with an isSupported() probe) plus src/render/iso25.js — but these are untracked, uncommitted, and not wired into renderer.js. Treat #9 as "direction locked + local spike," not shipped.
  • Statecraft war-GOAL / peace-TERMS / treasury lever — setWarGoal / warStatus / warTerms / setTreasuryFocus / setWarRally and the _wars/_peace record model landed in src/game/governance.js + src/sim/diplomacy.js (VALID_WAR_GOALS = border/raze/vassalize/plunder). They are dormant: zero references in game.js/ui.js. (Basic declareWar/makePeace are wired via the UI War/Peace buttons; the goal/terms/treasury layer is not.)
  • Cognition order/hold state — src/sim/agent.js gained path/pathCursor, holdX/holdY, orderState, setOrder()/clearOrder(); brain.js forward pass refactored with reusable scratch buffers, documented bit-identical (evolution unchanged). Landed, partially exercised by movement.

Design directions (specs only — no gameplay code yet)

  • ECONOMY_DESIGN.md (#6) — things cost currency + founded cities have ongoing needs.
  • AGENT_LIFE_DESIGN.md (#7) — the "Free Guy" principle: agents with feelings/hunger/community.
  • GRAPHICS_3D_DESIGN.md (#9) — WebGL2 true-3D renderer; every car/citizen a real mind.
  • SPRINT_PLAN.md — the sprint backlog and sequencing.

Tracking

  • CI: .github/workflows/ci.yml runs node test/headless.mjs (the life-persists + evolution invariant) on every push/PR to main; non-zero exit blocks regressions. Currently GREEN.
  • GitHub issues #1–#9 are the source of truth for what shipped vs. what's open:
    • CLOSED: #1 (Found reachable), #2 (Found reasons), #4 (render perf ~29x).
    • OPEN: #3 (real-play marches still fail, coupled to #8), #5 (discoverability), #6 (economy depth, spec only), #7 (living agents, spec only), #8 (P0 — survival/fail-state, the #1 priority), #9 (3D renderer, direction locked + local spike).

Docs (the design spine)

GOAL.md · DESIGN.md · FEATURES.md · MECHANICS.md · GAME_RULES.md · TECH_TREE_DESIGN.md · ARCHITECTURE.md · ECONOMY_DESIGN.md · AGENT_LIFE_DESIGN.md · GRAPHICS_3D_DESIGN.md · SPRINT_PLAN.md. Per-step history in CHANGELOG.md; outside-in playtest in BETA_REPORT.md.