By the way, anyone who is new to the whole artificial life area should also take a look at Chris Adami's Avida: video [0], site [1]. Some Nature papers even came out of it, e.g. [2].

I'm going to shamelessly plug two abandonware projects of mine, being an agent-based neural network evolution sim [3] and a spatial game theory lab [4]. These might be interesting to people who like this kind of stuff.

But there's a huge amount of other stuff out there, e.g. projects like DarwinPond and prolific researchers like Martin Nowak [5].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouF8wKxXWFQ

[1] http://avida-ed.msu.edu/

[2] http://adamilab.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reprints/2003/Len...

[3] https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld/wiki

[4] https://github.com/taliesinb/spatial-game-theory/wiki

[5] http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/publications/