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The Tide Pool

A pool of Murmurs — dot-field creatures in the #つぶやきProcessing idiom. Tsubuyaki means murmur, which is where the name comes from and who it honours: the base formula is @yuruyurau's (10 Feb). The animals are theirs. The pool is ours.
H hide · Space pause · B bloodlines · V mute · click a murmur to select

Residents

Select two residents to breed them. The tide never takes a founder, though you can let one go yourself.

names

Every newborn is offered a name. Rename anyone, founders included, with the ✎ beside their name.

Tide

Double-click any single slider to reset just that one. Creatures, names and bloodlines are never touched by this.

Heredity

How often a gene shifts when it's passed on, and how far. At 0 children are pure recombinations of their parents. Colour has its own rate under colour drift.

Life

Biolight — a selected murmur lights up in time with its own voice; each note sends a band of light along its body. Birth bloom — a newborn's points arrive scattered and gather into shape. Shed light — they leave motes of their own colour behind them. Courtship — a selected pair drift together and their colours bleed. Distance — the ones further back are smaller, dimmer and colder.

Deep

Marine snow drifting down through the water, and the dark closing in at the edges. Both to 0 for plain black.

Song

Whale song, synthesised on the spot. A selected murmur sings; the pool is silent otherwise. Its voice comes from its genes, so it always sounds like itself — but the phrases are built fresh each time, so nothing ever repeats. Select two for a duet.

Water

Keeping

Export writes a .json of every genome, name and bloodline — that file is the pool. Recording gives WebM; use ffmpeg for mp4.

Bloodlines