Day & Night
B3678/S34678
Symmetric — dark and light behave alike; blobs breathe.
Cellular automata · 1-bit · running now
Chaos Engineer
Chaos is your canvas, and you are the engineer. Eight cellular-automaton rules on a virtual Flipper Zero — the real device C sim, compiled to WebAssembly, driven on the same 128×64 screen and five-button pad.
01Play it here
The twin below is the real thing: flipper/chaos_core.c compiled straight to WebAssembly, driven on the same 128×64 screen and five-button pad you hold on the device. The console beside it is web-only telemetry — cycle rules, edit cells, watch the population breathe.
CHAOS ENGINEER
No maths degree required
02Learn by doing
Four tiny decisions teach the whole game: what a cell's neighbourhood is, when a cell survives, when one is born, and why every rule feels different.
≈ 60seconds
03What is a cellular automaton
A grid of cells, each alive or dead, all stepping forward together by one simple local rule. No cell sees the whole board — yet gliders crawl, mazes grow and blobs breathe.
Cells and neighbourhoods. Each cell watches its eight touching neighbours — the Moore neighbourhood. Every step, all cells update at once from the same rule, reading only that little ring around them.
Birth and survival (B/S). A rule is written B3/S23: a dead cell is born when its live-neighbour count is in B; a live cell survives when its count is in S. Change those digits and a whole universe changes with them.
04The eight rules
Chaos Engineer ships eight hand-picked rules. Cycle them live with Left / Right — each reseeds the field so you watch it come alive.
Conway's Life
B3/S23
The classic. Gliders, blinkers, still lifes — endless.
HighLife
B36/S23
Life plus a replicator that copies itself.
Seeds
B2/S
Nothing survives, yet it detonates outward.
Diamoeba
B35678/S5678
Ragged diamonds with churning edges.
2×2
B36/S125
Blocks beget blocks — order that keeps its grain.
Maze
B3/S12345
Dense corridors — a maze that draws itself.
Replicator
B1357/S1357
Odd-parity: every seed reproduces into copies.
05On the Flipper & get it
The twin above is flipper/chaos_core.c in WebAssembly. The same C ships as a single .fap for the real device — sideload it and run, no companion app, no network.
Run mode
◄ ► | Previous / next rule (reseeds) |
▲ ▼ | Faster / slower |
OK | Enter Edit mode |
OK hold | Reseed the field |
Back | Exit |
Edit mode
◄ ► ▲ ▼ | Move the cursor |
OK | Toggle the cell under the cursor |
OK hold | Single-step the simulation |
Back | Back to Run mode |
On the web twin, use the on-screen d-pad or your keyboard — arrows, Enter/Space = OK, Esc/Backspace = Back. Hold OK for the long-press action.
Get the FAP
CI builds the app for both firmware SDK channels on every push to main and publishes each .fap to a rolling GitHub release.
Step 1
Grab the FAP
Pick release to match stock firmware, dev for the bleeding edge. Both track main.
Step 2
Sideload with qFlipper
Open qFlipper, browse the SD card, and drop chaosengineer.fap into apps/Games.
Step 3
Launch
On the Flipper: Apps → Games → Chaos Engineer. Chaos is your canvas.