Frequently Asked Questions

Simulation Mechanics

• What is an Evolutionary Algorithm?
• What is a Neural Network?
• What does "fitness" mean?
• How do the muscles work?
• Why can muscles in Evolution both expand and contract?
• How does the Neural Network control the muscles?
• What does the mutation rate do?
• What does the "Simulate in Batches" option do?
• What does the "Keep best Creatures" option do?
• Why don't the creatures evolve their body shapes as well?

General

• Is this project Open Source?
• How can I see the best creature stats?
• Does Evolution run on Linux?
• What are the System Requirements to run Evolution?
• Can I change the task during the simulation but keep the current learning progress?
• Can I change the simulation time per generation after I start the simulation?
• Does the camera always show the best creature of the current generation?
• How should I interpret the units of the different creature stats?
• Will there be creature skins in the future?
• Will you add translations for more languages?
• I made an awesome creature. Do you want to see it?
• Is it possible to create custom levels?
• Why did you make this game?

Issues

• I updated Evolution and my old simulations behave differently
• Evolution crashed
• I get an “Out of Memory" exception inside of the browser. What do I do?
• My creatures aren’t learning anything
• Why can’t I set the population size to 1?
• There is no help page?
• Why is the simulation so laggy?
• I connected two unconnected bones with a muscle and got 100% fitness. Do I win?
• Why don’t you just limit the length of the muscles in order to prevent this glitch?
• Why does the fitness drop between generations sometimes?
• The “Best Creature” is not being selected correctly (It just sits there and doesn’t move)
• Even the default creatures don’t work
• Evolution doesn’t download properly