Show HN: Swarm World – local LLM creatures living in a little tile world
This is a hobby project: a small tile world where every creature is a local language model. A creature only knows what its body senses, written out as text ("You see: a boulder 4 steps northwest; a campfire (burning) 5 steps east ... Others: Loam 2 steps southeast, carrying a stone knife"). It acts by stating an intention, and the world decides whether that works. There are 34 verbs, things like gather, craft, give, teach, dig and climb. I been watching these swarms happen and I wanted
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2026-11-04 18:30:32.860Z
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Source account: This is a hobby project: a small tile world where every creature is a local language model. A creature only knows what its body senses, written out as text ("You see: a boulder 4 steps northwest; a campfire (burning) 5 steps east ... Others: Loam 2 steps southeast, carrying a stone knife"). It acts by stating an intention, and the world decides whether that works. There are 34 verbs, things like gather, craft, give, teach, dig and climb. I been watching these swarms happen and I wanted
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