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Ancient Brain
Code. Play. Teach. Learn. Research. Demo.

Our goal: To become one of the most fun places in the world to code.

16 countries 1,410 coders 2,552 worlds 163,343 runs 0.9 million lines of code Update stats

Final Pool
851 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Ian Gilligan Ireland

Created: 1 Mar 2019
Modified: 13 Aug 2019
Pool Predictor for CA326

Flickr World
152 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 12 Aug 2018
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Demo of "Web page" API. Just use JS to make a web page. This page gets images from Flickr using ...

FLESHMAN PLAYS G...
4443 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Sean Hutchinson
Created: 21 Oct 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

Catch the flag
4200 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Meabh Horan
Created: 16 Nov 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

An online coding platform

Ancient Brain is an online coding and hosting platform for everyone.
See About and List of features.

Coders: Make 3D worlds and share them with friends. Clone and edit other people's worlds. Make touch mobile games. Embed your worlds on other sites.

Teachers: Run courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Run programming practicals in 3D or 2D or text, with many features designed for teachers. Safely edit and run student code.

Learners: Do courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Clone other people's worlds and change one or two lines. What's the worst that could happen?

Gamers: Play the endless game worlds the coders make. Come and browse an ever-growing archive of games.

Researchers: Upload problems, tender for solutions, test and rank them. Make hybrid AI systems from the code of multiple authors.

Enough talk. Show me a video!

OK, here is a high-level introduction.
This does not assume you have ever coded, or ever heard of JavaScript graphics (what is behind this site).

How to code

You can "run" any of the programs or "Worlds" by clicking on them. But this is also a coding site, where you can code your own Worlds. You can use this site to learn to code. Or show off your creations if you are an experienced coder.

Click below to learn how to code on this site. Basically, there is a choice of "libraries" that you can use.

How to code

Skip the intro, let us decide the library, and go straight to the starter tutorial (with videos):

Show me the Starter tutorial

Programming course

Ancient Brain has a course in how to program from scratch.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 2.5
37 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 4 Sep 2018
The random() Function

Tutorial 2.1
241 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 4 Sep 2018
Variables in p5.js (mouseX, mouseY)

Tutorial 7.8 variant
221 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 6 Sep 2018
Modified: 11 Sep 2018
Tutorial 7.8 with music and other uploaded images, including from other users. Click on the images.

Tutorial 7.3
97 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Sep 2018
Modified: 5 Sep 2018
Arrays of Objects

Introduction to Programming

AI course

Ancient Brain has a set of AI programming exercises, with videos and notes. For use in any AI course.
You will get to modify "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

A star
658 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 1 May 2019
Modified: 15 Dec 2019
"A Star" algorithm to find shortest path through maze.

GA (Finnegans Wake)
394 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 2 May 2019
Modified: 15 Dec 2019
Genetic Algorithm to write the first line of Finnegans Wake.

Breadth-first se...
539 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 30 Apr 2019
Modified: 15 Dec 2019
Breadth-first search with a Force-directed graph.

Character recogn...
428 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Jul 2019
Modified: 15 Dec 2019
Neural network to do character recognition from image database and from handwriting in real-time.

AI exercises

WebGL course

Ancient Brain has a short course in JavaScript 3D graphics ("WebGL") programming.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 18.8
21 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 9 Sep 2018
3D Custom Shapes

Tutorial 18.7
276 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 11 Sep 2018
Tutorial 18.7 with full canvas, resized model, sound. Texture on box is image from another user.

Tutorial 18.3
12 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 9 Sep 2018
Light and Material

Tutorial 18.5
38 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 2 Jun 2019
Camera and Perspective

WebGL course

Starter Worlds for Three.js

These are the main "Starter Worlds" that use the Three.js library (which tends to give the most advanced graphics).

You can Clone and Edit all of these and change their code. Look for a section at the top called the "Tweaker's Box". This contains the easiest things to change.

Model World
582 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 8 Nov 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Demo of how to insert 3d models into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Skybox.

User-controlled ...
464 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 12 Feb 2017
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
3d model World. User controlled on desktop. Keyboard arrows to move. Switch to "Move with" camer...

Zombie Death Baby
439 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Jun 2018
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
How to make a fun touch game for mobile. Touch drag and tap objects. Mouse drag and click object...

Touch World
304 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 6 Jan 2018
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
How to override default touch handling. Mobile: Touch drag moves agent, touch pinch zooms camera...

Blank Three.js World
918 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 20 Nov 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
A simple starter World. An Array of spheres. Painted with textures. Random motion.

Simple World
1208 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Simple World with a Mind-controlled agent, randomly-moving enemy, paint blocks with texture.

Castle World
507 runs ♦ 4 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Nov 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Demo of how to insert 3d model into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Splas...

Complex World
3533 runs ♦ 3 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
World with a Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy, random maze, skybox, music.

Websockets boxes
111 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 29 Feb 2020
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Demo of Websockets in 3D World. Click to change the boxes on the other user's machine, while the...

One Cube World (...
760 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Apr 2018
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Simple starter World (Three.js version). Cube of random color. Built-in camera control.

MineCraft
658 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 27 Nov 2016
Modified: 13 Mar 2020
Use keyboard to draw blocks like in MineCraft. Use arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn to draw. Can save w...

Random Worlds

Here are some random Worlds that have had more than 10 runs. Reload for more.

lillisl2 0.2 Poo...
30 runs ♦ 1 like
By lillisl2
Created: 1 Feb 2019
Modified: 1 Feb 2019
Clone of "0.1 Pool Predictor Prototype" by Ian Gilligan

Ghost Bomb World
95 runs ♦ 1 like
By Husam Aldean Afana
Created: 9 Dec 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

New World
22 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Ger Gleeson
Created: 4 Dec 2019
Modified: 4 Dec 2019

ConvnetJS Charac...
102 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Dillan de Langen
Created: 11 Dec 2019
Modified: 22 Dec 2019

Binary tree (clo...
16 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Adrian Sweeney
Created: 12 Oct 2019
Modified: 12 Oct 2019
Clone of "Binary tree" by "Coding Train" project

One Cube World P...
29 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Bernard
Created: 6 Oct 2019
Modified: 13 Oct 2019
First P5 world

One Cube World (...
25 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Lu19
Created: 5 Oct 2019
Modified: 5 Oct 2019
Clone of "One Cube World (P5)" by Starter user

Deliverable Week 7&8
56 runs ♦ 0 likes
By cam
Created: 11 Nov 2018
Modified: 13 Nov 2018
Christmas Themed Pacman

joes Cloned Comp...
29 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Joe Humphreys
Created: 29 Oct 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

Cells
89 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Enhanced France

Created: 27 Jun 2018
Modified: 27 Jun 2018
'Cells' is an animation that displays 4 team of cells trying to infect each other, until total d...

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