AIVPetZ © ™ - Virtual pets/Virtual games that are not MMO

This where you are going to find more game oriented Alife programs. Games like Spore, Creatures 1,2,3, Creatures Docking Station and Dogz and Catz are going to be found here. Other games that use AI and are Alife like Sims 4, SimCity and City Conquest can also be found here. This is not a exhaustive list as many games could be considered to be alife but these are the more famous and better ones out there.

• AI Game Research-This website is a collection of playable experimental games created by researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)
• AlienIsolation- Alien: Isolation is an action-adventure video game developed by the Creative Assembly and based on the Alien science fiction horror film series. It was published by Sega and originally released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on 7 October 2014. The game is set 15 years after the events of Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien film and follows Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, a nd her efforts to investigate the disappearance of her moth Cited from the Wikipedia.
• Assassins Creed Unity- In addition to an epic single-player campaign, join with up to three friends online and experience the open world of 18th-century Paris. Pull ambitious heists and take part in unique narrative-driven missions designed exclusively for co-op play.
• City Conquest- City Conquest was just released for HD-capable iOS and Android devices (iPad 2+, iPhone 4+, iPad Touch 4+, and any Android device that supports Ice Cream Sandwich and minimum 860x540 resolution).
• Creatures Docking Station- This is a older game but i was able to run it on my windows 8.1. They have a mac and linux version. The site states:."Docking Station is a completely FREE artificial life game for both Windows and Linux, developed by Creature Labs, the creators of the Creatures series of games, with online multiplayer capabilities. Hatch and raise your own unique norns, then take them online to see how they interact with the rest of the Creatures world at the Docking Station."
• Destiny- The biggest challenge in the "realization" of character behaviors is by far the animation. You can't portray any kind of movement, gesture or emotion without a suitably animated skeleton. Bungie took the problem head on with its new cross-platform engine powering Destiny, and developed a very powerful system capable of retargeting animations to any skeleton at runtime - among many other things. It won the community's vote for this year's Technical Innovation award.Cited from the AiGameDev.com
• Eufloria- The site states: "Experience “Eufloria HD”, the new edition of Eufloria, an incredibly addictive ambient strategy game that anyone can play! Explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is unique and compelling."
• FooPetsThis widgest is a example of FooPets a online virtual world with thst features a pet you can feed and play with as well as a chat list of people online you can interact with.
• Microcosmum- The site states: "Microcosmum: survival of cells - real-time strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere and original gameplay"
• Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor- This game won Best AI in a AAA Game at AiGameDev.com Fans, critics and developers have spoken. Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor is one of 2014s most awarded games. Now you can own the complete experience with Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor: Game of the Year Edition.
• Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives- euro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, or NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on. Evolve your own robot army by tuning their artificial brains for challenging tasks, then pit them against your friends' teams in online competitions!
• Petz Beach- This is most recent version of the older dogz and catz game and is only availbe for Nintendo 3DS. The site states: ."Grab your Nintendo 3DS and get ready to adopt and care for a host of adorable new friends."
• Planetoid- The site states: "In Planetoid you select a starting space civilization (you can create custom races). From here you travel to other planets and invest into technology eventually colonising more and more of space."
• Sims 4- Is the newest version of the sims series. The site states: ."Explore a new world, meet new Sims, and live it up with The Sims 4 Get Together."
• SimCity- This game just had another release in nov 2014. The site states:." SimCity: Complete Edition -- Available Now Posted by SimCity Admin November 18, 2014 ."
• SPORE- This game is no longer made and it was made by the same people who created the sims and sim city. The site states: ."Created by the minds behind The Sims, Spore allows you to sculpt the evolution of an entire civilization from a single-celled organism, graduating to complex creatures, then entire tribes, through planet-wide civilizations and finally out into space. Will your creatures survive be being fittest or by most intelligent?."
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R- The gist of the A-life is that the characters in the game live their own lives and exist all the time, not only when they are in the player's field of view. It eventually runs counter to the customary optimization processes used in games development Cited from the AiGameDev.com
• Third Eye Crime- It is Moonshots long-awaited Third Eye Crime that won year's community vote for Best AI in an Independent Game. It's a stealth game where the enemy's model of the player position is a probability distribution over the level, also known as an occupancy grid. The game shines particularly for its clever exploration of these core mechanics via a series of puzzles over three Noir-style episodes. Cited from the AiGameDev.com