Microtopia

What if you were the brain of an ant colony? In Microtopia, you guide a swarm of robotic ants using pheromone trails. You automate their paths, fine-tune their routines, and feed the queen. Every line you draw is a choice, every work rhythm a life trajectory. What starts as management soon turns into biomechanical world-building.

Microtopia places you inside the hive mind of a synthetic colony. You gather resources, produce goods, and raise new queens who take flight to found new settlements. The goal is reproduction. Each ant has a role: collecting, building, feeding, exploring. The environment responds to your actions. You may exhaust it or cultivate a fragile equilibrium. Growth is never neutral.

This project invites us to take a different perspective on efficiency, reproduction, and control – to see them in terms not of domination but of a dance of dependencies. Each cycle is vulnerable; each pattern is temporary. Where does an organism end and the world begin?