THE POND IS DRYING
Consume what remains now, or preserve it for those who come next.
Is survival about the present or the future?
TROUBLE
Something is always going wrong.
Trouble is the engine of the universe. Every crisis creates a problem, a choice and a consequence.
Taxonomy
Four kinds of trouble.
01
SCARCITY
There isn't enough food, space, energy or time.
Who gets to continue?
02
IDENTITY
Evolution, mutation, memory and division challenge what an organism believes itself to be.
When you change, are you still you?
03
PREDATION
Every organism is somebody else's food, threat or opportunity.
Can survival be moral?
04
ONTOLOGICAL
The rules themselves begin to break. Reality, observation and the nature of the universe become uncertain.
What happens when the world knows you are looking?
Featured troubles
Case files from the drop.
4 troubles shown
THE THING THAT EATS BACK
Not everything that looks like food wants to be eaten.
How well do you really understand your world?
THE SPLIT
A creature divides, but both halves remember being one.
Where does one life end and another begin?
THE CENSUS
Something appears to be counting the organisms in the microverse.
Why would the universe need a record of you?