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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.

17 countries 1,468 coders 2,668 worlds 166,386 runs 0.9 million lines of code Update stats

Sampler
77 runs ♦ 1 like
By Enhanced France

Created: 19 Jul 2018
Modified: 19 Jul 2018
Upload sounds, play them, automate them. Saving data works.

Design Your Own ...
4327 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Jack O'Connor Ireland

Created: 18 Feb 2019
Modified: 12 Mar 2019
Design Your Own Room Escape Game

Chess : Mind v...
124 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Enhanced France

Created: 7 Aug 2018
Modified: 10 May 2019
Your mind plays against "Simple AI - Depth 1" with a little bit of random added so the games are...

Sheepdog3(Submis...
635 runs ♦ 3 likes
By Neil Geoghegan
Created: 8 Dec 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

An online coding platform

Ancient Brain is an online coding and hosting platform for everyone.
See Intro 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 7.8 variant
233 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
113 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

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

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

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

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

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

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.

GA (Finnegans Wake)
430 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...
584 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...
475 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.

A star
723 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tutorial 18.7
288 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.

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.

MineCraft
668 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 27 Nov 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Use keyboard to draw blocks like in MineCraft. Use arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn to draw. Can save w...

Touch World
309 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 6 Jan 2018
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
How to override default touch handling. Mobile: Touch drag moves agent, touch pinch zooms camera...

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

Created: 12 Feb 2017
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
3d model World. User controlled on desktop. Keyboard arrows to move. Switch to "Move with" camer...

Castle World
519 runs ♦ 4 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Nov 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Demo of how to insert 3d model into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Splas...

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

Created: 20 Nov 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
A simple starter World. An Array of spheres. Painted with textures. Random motion.

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

Created: 11 Apr 2018
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Simple starter World (Three.js version). Cube of random color. Built-in camera control.

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

Created: 11 Jun 2018
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
How to make a fun touch game for mobile. Touch drag and tap objects. Mouse drag and click object...

Simple World
1223 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Simple World with a Mind-controlled agent, randomly-moving enemy, paint blocks with texture.

Websockets boxes
149 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 29 Feb 2020
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Demo of Websockets in 3D World. Click to change the boxes on the other user's machine, while the...

Model World
595 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 8 Nov 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
Demo of how to insert 3d models into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Skybox.

Complex World
3581 runs ♦ 3 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 18 Sep 2020
World with a Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy, random maze, skybox, music.

Random Worlds

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

tokodorimercury
20 runs ♦ 0 likes
By DIT Festival of ...
Created: 7 Jun 2019
Modified: 7 Jun 2019
Clone of "One Cube World (P5)" by Starter user

Character recogn...
23 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Harpreet Singh
Created: 21 Dec 2019
Modified: 22 Dec 2019
Clone of "Character recognition neural network" by "Coding Train" project

block
29 runs ♦ 1 like
By James Humphrys
Created: 25 May 2018
Modified: 25 May 2018
its a block

Cloned pacman mo...
24 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Ray Walshe
Created: 27 Oct 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

A star (clone by...
49 runs ♦ 0 likes
By p birdwood
Created: 10 Sep 2020
Modified: 10 Sep 2020
Clone of "A star" by "Coding Train" project

Spooky Skeleton ...
338 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Cillian Rice
Created: 16 Nov 2016
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

Breadth-first se...
130 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Karl Murphy
Created: 11 Oct 2019
Modified: 11 Oct 2019
Clone of "Breadth-first search (Kevin Bacon)" by "Coding Train" project

Comments, Types ...
14 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Cameron HJ1 1
Created: 20 May 2019
Modified: 20 May 2019
Clone of "Comments, Types & Variables World" by Alex Murphy

One Cube World (...
24 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Mathieee
Created: 13 Jun 2019
Modified: 13 Jun 2019
Clone of "One Cube World (Three.js)" by Starter user

Cloned Complex World
15 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Teaching Worlds
Created: 10 Dec 2017
Modified: 10 Feb 2018

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If you are interested in writing a programming course, textbook or tutorial videos, Ancient Brain is looking for partners. We will work with you, and integrate your course into the site. This is an opportunity for someone looking to develop a course or textbook to partner with a site to support it and promote it.