SimVida Reborn

The discovery of the computer has a huge impact on the pace at which research is done, with an incredibly significant evolution in only a few years. For instance, different simulation programs can be used to learn, or predict different events. An example of how this works is SimVida Reborn, which is sure to teach you about gene evolution in an interactive simulation environment.

Note that the application is good to go from the moment download is done. This comes in handy for performing a lengthy experiment, letting you take the whole project around on a thumb drive. What’s more, there’s no need to worry about affecting the stability of the target PC, because registries are not modified to ensure functionality.

You’re directly placed into a randomly generated situation. It’s all just a large pool in which Biots, little floating particles composed of different genes swim around, feed, die, and multiply. Simulation runs in real time, and you can observe quite a large population, with mouse controls for zoom, and side sliders to move around the map.

When it comes to Biots, the set of commands is rather poor. On the one hand, you can track a specific biot, with the camera following around, or directly jump to the oldest one, or most spread types of genes. For one biot in particular, the context menu allow you to mutate, or kill.

Your influence in the simulation matters. In order to grow, biots feed on seeds, which replenish energy. You can manually place seeds, with biots automatically moving to the closest grain.

As far as information is concerned, it’s either provided for a single biot, or the entire simulation. Age, energy, reproduction, and mutation rates are some of the individual details, while the general set also draws a real time evolution, and distribution of genes in a visually appealing graph.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that SimVida Reborn combines some elements of the gaming world, with educational perks to teach about gene distribution, and evolution in general. Although emphasis is not put on aesthetics, it makes for a cool time-killer, with just the right amount of simulation controls at your disposal.