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A tiny town where AI characters live, remember and gossip
A live pixel-art town whose characters hold conversations from their own personalities, relationships and memories — released by Yoko Li with the Convex team as an open starter kit for building your own.
Technical making-of from the Convex team
Free in the browser; no account needed
What it does
Watch autonomous characters live in a shared town — or deploy the same engine to build a custom simulation with your own characters and world.
Who it helps
Agent-society watchers, game developers and anyone who wants to inspect how AI characters remember.
How it was made
- Models
- OpenAI models · creator-reported
- Tools
- Convex · Game engine, database and vector searchReplicate and fal · Pixel-art generationPixiJS · Rendering
- Each character’s prompt bundles its personality, relationships, goals and memories before a language model decides what it says next.
- The town runs as a shared simulation on Convex, so everyone watches the same persistent world; the code is a starter kit others can fork.
- Art, music and sprites come from dedicated generation tools, with the credits listed in the repository.
What the person did
Yoko Li designed and led AI Town with the Convex and a16z teams; the making-of articles document the character system and how to write your own.
What we know
Creator-reported: A maker launch post, a team technical article and a public repository with more than 10,000 stars; both creator profiles point at the project.
Access checked — 2026-09-26 · Opened the live town, the repository (10,548 stars on 2026-09-26), the README and the Convex making-of article, plus both creator profiles.
Can you use it?
The code is MIT-licensed; the town’s third-party art and tiles keep their own credits, so we link and host none of it. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a screenshot of the project.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-26. Updated 2026-09-26.