Set the interaction
Choose two colors—or a color and Void—and select Destroy, Paint, Stop, or Breed as the active law.
Experimental project
MOBLSystems puzzle prototype
You do not control the game world directly. You control its laws—then watch a field of particles collide, change, multiply, and reshape the territory around them.
Free browser prototype · Designed for current desktop Chrome · Landscape display recommended
MOBL / SIMULATION SNAPSHOT
The experiment
Control laws,
not pieces.
MOBL is a real-time systems puzzle played on a 30×30 field. Red, green, and blue balls move independently, cooling the cells beneath them. Your goal is to capture all 900 cells without allowing any color population to disappear.
Instead of steering a ball or clicking the field, you choose which colors a global law affects. Collisions can destroy balls, repaint them, stop them, or breed new ones. Progress comes from understanding the consequences and creating the conditions the field needs.
Observe the system
The law applies automatically when its conditions occur. Every intervention changes the populations and the future of the field.
Capture the territory
Cool and secure every cell while keeping all three colored populations alive. The white ball is always working against stability.
History and credits
An independent experiment built on an original idea.
The original MOBL was created by K-D Lab in 1998 from a game concept by Andrey “KranK” Kuzmin. It received the Grand Prix at the 1998 ENIX Game Software Contest for its original game idea.
This experimental prototype recreates the later 1999 Workshop Of Success implementation. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by K-D Lab.
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