Evolve Island

An island-building visual front-end over the Evolve incremental engine — same mechanics, new eyes.

build 2026-10-14T20:40:56Z

Try it

spike The Island → Live 3D island driven by the real engine. Resource HUD, hideable rows, and the original interface available in a side drawer so it is actually playable. reference Classic Evolve → The unmodified upstream game, built from vendored source. Our benchmark for "same mechanics".

Where the project stands

Upstream engine vendored (MPL-2.0) and building locally — 264 ms bundle
Engine bridge proven: live state readable, actions callable, zero console errors
CDN dependencies vendored (upstream's six unpkg scripts are blocked in CI)
GitHub Pages deploy on every push to the working branch
Extensible model + icon registries — category defaults cover everything today
Build/buy interactions in our own UI (currently via the drawer)
Per-structure bespoke models, replacing category defaults over time
Tech-stack sign-off — see docs/DECISIONS.md

Your call

The architecture question is written up as ADR-001 in docs/DECISIONS.md, with three options and a recommendation. Session 1 built on the recommended one (engine untouched, graphics on top) because it was the only one that could be proven cheaply — but it is reversible, and nothing is committed until you weigh in. Drop notes anywhere in docs/IDEAS.md; that file is yours.

Engine © Peter Motschmann, MPL-2.0 — vendored unmodified in engine/. Island front-end in src/. Progress tracked in docs/ROADMAP.md.