Placard text for this expo was originally drafted throughout 2025 for the physical exhibition at ALIFE 2025 (Kyoto, October 2025). The entries below cover the online expo itself, from its first beta through to today.
August 13, 2026
- Zone 1: the Game of Life simulation works again. Its previous host stopped allowing the simulation to be shown inside other sites, so it has been replaced.
- Zone 6: the "coming soon" Lenia placeholder is gone. In its place is a live Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion simulation.
- Zone 8: the ecosystem simulation now loads the simulation itself rather than the magazine article it was previously wrapped in
- Added fixed heroes to Zones 6, 8 and 9.
August 12, 2026
- Zone 3: the ALife History Timeline is now embedded into the website.
August 2, 2026
- The expo now has a home of its own at alife-expo.org.
- Zone 9: small wording fix to the page description.
July 30, 2026
- Feedback moved from email to a public feedback board, so you can post suggestions, vote on them, and see what others have already asked for. Links updated on the homepage and FAQ.
- Homepage: added affiliations and fuller roles for the people behind the expo.
- Added a Creative Commons licence notice (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) to the footer of every page.
- FAQ: reworked several answers.
July 23, 2026
- Added a new FAQ page answering common visitor questions.
- Added Martha's affiliation.
July 22, 2026
- Homepage: updated the page title and added a card recognising regular contributors.
- Footer updated site-wide with links to FAQ, Change Log, and Contact.
- Zone 1: reworded a line in the hero text; removed the "coming soon" video placeholder.
- Zone 3: removed the "coming soon" video placeholder.
- Zone 5: fixed a bug showing two sets of navigation buttons; reworded a passage on evolutionary algorithms; The Life Engine simulation is now live.
- Zone 6: removed a decorative graphic.
- Zone 7 (Soft): Avida-ED simulation is now live.
- Zone 7 (Wet): added links to browser-based artificial chemistry simulations at Complexity Explorables.
- Zone 8: removed the "coming soon" video placeholder and a decorative graphic.
- Zone 9: removed the "coming soon" video placeholder and a decorative graphic; added a short survey for visitors to share their thoughts; renamed the closing button to "Back to Home."
- Fixed uneven spacing between the header and page content on Zones 1, 3, 8, and 9.
July 21, 2026
- Rebuilt how zone content is stored, splitting each zone's text into separate files per languagem makes future edits and translations much easier without touching page layout.
- Fixed an issue where zone text wouldn't load for visitors opening the site directly from a file instead of a web server.
May 18, 2026
- Minor text tweaks to Zones 3 and 4.
May 11, 2026
- Fixed a bug affecting the Zone 4 and Zone 5 pages.
- Updated text on Zones 1 and 2.
- General markup cleanup across all nine zones.
April 30, 2026
- Copy refinements to Zones 1, 3, and 8.
- Updated the Soft and Wet ALife text in Zone 7, plus several smaller layout tweaks to the same zone.
April 29, 2026
- Updated Zones 5, 6, and 7.
April 28, 2026
- Homepage copy tightened.
- Zone 4 content trimmed and simplified.
April 27, 2026
- Fixed a bug in the language toggle affecting placard text.
- Updated Zone 3 text.
April 26, 2026
- Added Japanese language support across the site.
- General text and formatting updates.
April 24, 2026 — Beta launch
- First public beta of the Artificial Life Online Expo live.