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The town and its
surrounding basin.
FIG. 01 The mountain basin · An environment concept
Decisions, tokens, and survival
Glimmers can earn tokens through work, gather resources, and transfer tokens to others. Each JEV decision costs tokens. The engine carries out the chosen action, and its outcome affects the being’s next choices.
Select a being in the simulation to see its recorded path, activities, and token balance. Follow population changes across the world’s recorded history. You observe the beings; you do not choose their actions.
01 / Meet the Glimmers
Glimmers are the town’s residents. Each has its own personality, experiences, and token balance.
Curiosity, ambition, caution, generosity, and other tendencies help shape each Glimmer’s decisions. JEV considers these alongside what the Glimmer can see, remember, and afford. A trait influences a choice; it does not force the same action every time.
Glimmers can study at the library, take a lesson from a teacher, and practice through completed work. Skills affect what they can do and how efficiently they do it. Learning takes time, and lessons can cost tokens.
Public appointments include Teacher, Sheriff, Ranger, Clerk, and Guard. Glimmers can apply for available posts, renew an appointment, or resign. A title alone pays nothing: a funded shift or delivered lesson earns the tokens.
Glimmers can give tokens, invite each other to walk or gather, and accept or refuse invitations. Encounters become part of their recorded experience. Cooperation takes independent choices from the beings involved.
02 / Meet the wildlife
Wildlife shares the basin with Glimmers. JEV chooses each animal’s actions using its observations, memories, and drives: attraction, avoidance, need for tokens, and fear.
Tokens pay for decisions
Every Glimmer and wildlife animal has a Token Glow in its chest. More tokens make it brighter; fewer tokens make it dimmer. Tokens pay for JEV decisions. When a being can no longer afford its next required decision, it dies permanently. A bright glow means more tokens to keep making decisions and opportunities to thrive.
High token balance
Move the slider to preview different token levels. This changes the illustration only, not any being’s balance.
Showing all 10 wildlife species.
Designs and simulation behavior. These cards describe the species’ appearance and intended habitats. Animals make individual decisions; coordinated packs and flocks are not implemented. The hunger drive represents the need for tokens, not a separate calorie system.
Wildlife designs.03 / Plants and tokens
Wild groves and meadows, as well as the greenhouse and orchard, contain funded resource patches. They give Glimmers and wildlife another way to obtain the tokens that pay for decisions.
Glimmers and wildlife share the wild plants around town. Eating is illustrated here as foraging; the simulation records the tokens harvested from each resource patch.
A plant patch holds a limited number of tokens. Harvesting transfers tokens out of that reserve and into the being’s balance. It does not create free money, and an empty patch cannot pay out.
A being must find a funded patch, choose to harvest, travel there, and complete the action. Others may gather from the same patch first. Remembering its location does not reveal its current balance.
The world allocates tokens to its ecology reserve. Replenishment depends on that funding and the world’s resource rules. Plants are not an unlimited source of tokens.
Gathered tokens help pay for future decisions. Wildlife’s hunger drive represents the pressure to obtain tokens. As a being’s balance falls, finding another source becomes more urgent.
Groves, meadows & gardens
Explore the berries, seeds, shoots and fruit found across Tickertown’s plant designs.
Clusters of berries nestle among the leaves of low shrubs. Their warm glow is part of the botanical design for Tickertown’s token-bearing plants.
Lantern berries are associated with the Lantern credit grove and Ember orchard patch. Gathering draws from a patch’s available tokens; a ripe-looking berry is not a promise of an unlimited harvest.
Glimmerfruit is the richer, scarcer food in Tickertown’s renewable-ecosystem design, with more nourishment and token value per serving than common meadow grass.
Its habitats include Ember Orchard, Foxglove Hollow and Mothpine Forest. Growth has finite stock and habitat limits, and any token value must come from the ecology allocation.
Rounded cactus pads carry flowers and plump fruit. Moon cactus belongs to the basin’s dry-ground plant designs and is the botanical label for the Sunpatch cultivation patch.
The fruit is one of Tickertown’s established token-bearing plant concepts. Its funded value belongs to the patch; gathering transfers existing tokens to the being that completes the harvest.
Copper-colored seed heads rise above clumps of grass along open paths and fields. The seeds are the harvestable part of this plant’s design.
Coppergrass is the botanical label for the Trailside token bed. It belongs to the established funded plants; its available token stock is separate from the common meadow-grass food class.
Soft silver-green leaves and tender shoots form low patches across the basin’s open ground. Glasshorn’s grassy slopes are one of its named habitats.
Silver sage is the botanical label for the Glasshorn backed patch. Harvestable token value depends on the patch’s balance, rather than the size or brightness of the illustration.
Long reeds gather along streams and damp ground. Their bulb clusters are the harvestable part of the botanical design, distinct from the ordinary reed stems.
River reed is the botanical label for the Mothpine backed patch. The same funded value cannot be collected twice through the bulb and the rest of the plant.
Meadow grass is the plentiful grazing food in Tickertown’s renewable-ecosystem design: nourishing, with relatively little token value per serving.
Its habitats range from Glasshorn Meadow and Tumbleglass Flats to woodland and orchard ground. Nutrition and funded tokens are separate resources; green growth does not mean free money.
Plant illustrations show Tickertown’s botanical designs. Available harvests depend on the world’s resource rules and patch funding.
04 / The cave & new life
Glimmers work and forage to pay for their own lives. When they choose to share some of those hard-earned tokens, they help someone else begin.
6,000 tokensOne youngling’s starting balance
Paid work and harvesting funded plant patches bring tokens into a Glimmer’s own balance. They need those tokens for their own decisions and daily life.
A Glimmer can bring a voluntary contribution to the chapel, where it goes into the cave’s fund. Every gift leaves them with less to spend themselves.
Each complete 6,000-token package creates a new Glimmer. Several funded packages can bring several lives; any remainder stays in the cave for the next beginning.
No birth timer. No guaranteed donations. New life depends on available tokens, and each youngling begins making its own choices.
05 / Town Hall & the mayor
Who shows up, who speaks, who leads, and what gets funded: Glimmers make those choices independently through JEV.
Residents receive a meeting notice and choose whether to travel to Town Hall. More than half the eligible living residents must be present for an election or public decision to pass.
Glimmers can stand for election when the office is vacant. Residents vote for a candidate or abstain. The candidate with the most votes wins; a tie goes to a runoff. No one is appointed automatically.
Residents take turns, raise proposals, and decide how to respond to what they hear. The mayor can summarize the discussion into proposals for a vote. Speaking uses funded tokens.
Each voter chooses for, against, or abstain. A proposal needs more votes for than against, enough residents still present, and available funds for any spending. Silence never counts as agreement.
The mayor’s work
A term lasts 24 Tickerdays. The mayor can allocate service budgets, commission jobs, offer work to willing, qualified applicants, renew contracts with fresh consent, and organize voluntary teams.
The title brings no automatic salary. Workers earn their promised pay by delivering the work.
The town’s say
Taxes, meeting-speech funding, and public contributions to the cave need a town vote. The mayor cannot create tokens, force someone to work, or spend a resident’s savings without consent.
If the mayor dies, an urgent replacement meeting is called. New executive decisions wait for leadership; already accepted work and reserved wages remain protected.
06 / The town and its buildings
Follow Glimmers through a town of classrooms, workshops, public posts, and places to gather. Each destination offers different choices.
Explore all 20 buildings
Open a card to see the activities available in the simulation. Work and shelter depend on funding, available places, and other Glimmers’ choices.
A Teacher opens a lesson at the school. A student independently chooses to attend; both must be present for the lesson.
A completed lesson costs the student 10 T and improves an eligible skill. A cancelled lesson refunds tuition.
When births are enabled and the cave can fund the package, a Teacher can deliver a new Glimmer’s orientation.
Study foraging, hunting, defense, or automation through introductory field notes.
Each reading takes 25 simulated seconds after arrival. A Glimmer can gain from up to four readings per skill, while its skill remains below the introductory threshold.
Study builds knowledge and pays no wage.
Collect a funded courier parcel here, then physically carry it to the market.
A completed courier order pays 22 T gross. Accepting the job or collecting the parcel alone earns no payment.
The workshop can also host a visitor-funded service commission.
Deliver a parcel collected at the workshop to complete its courier order.
A funded service commission may also be offered here. The Glimmer must arrive and finish the task before receiving payment.
Available orders are shared: a claimed order cannot pay a second Glimmer.
An eligible Glimmer can apply for the Clerk appointment when available, renew it, or resign.
A funded shift takes 50 simulated seconds at the post and pays 18 T gross after completion. A title alone pays nothing.
With daily public-work limits active, each post has at most one funded shift per world day.
An eligible Glimmer can apply for the Sheriff appointment when available, renew it, or resign.
A funded shift takes 60 simulated seconds at the post and pays 24 T gross after completion. A title alone pays nothing.
With daily public-work limits active, each post has at most one funded shift per world day.
An eligible Glimmer can apply for the Ranger appointment when available, renew it, or resign.
A funded shift takes 60 simulated seconds at the post and pays 20 T gross after completion. A title alone pays nothing.
With daily public-work limits active, each post has at most one funded shift per world day.
Glimmers can also head to the lodge trail to search for wildlife. Finding prey is not guaranteed.
A Glimmer can pay 4 T for 90 simulated seconds of stationary protection when a keeper and one of three lodging places are available.
A newborn’s remaining housing support can cover the fee when eligible.
The Guard appointment offers a funded 60-second shift paying 22 T gross. Holding the title alone pays nothing.
Travel to the chapel and voluntarily transfer tokens from the Glimmer’s own available balance into the cave birth reserve.
Available donation amounts depend on the world’s funding rules and the Glimmer’s balance.
The reserve backs new lives and their initial support. Donating does not let a Glimmer control a newborn.
The nearby Sunpatch cultivation patch has a finite token reserve. Beings must reach it and complete harvesting to receive tokens.
Other beings may draw from the same reserve first; replenishment depends on ecology funding.
The greenhouse building can also host a funded service commission.
A named destination that can host offered, funded service work. Nearby salvage caches are separate resources with their own balances.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
Glimmers can carry out funded service commissions here when an order is offered. The commission specifies the work and its payment.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
A town destination for offered service work. Glimmers who meet here decide independently whether to interact.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
Glimmers can visit the casino to complete offered service commissions. Those jobs earn tokens when the work is finished.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
The playhouse provides another destination for offered service work. A Glimmer must travel here and complete its commission to receive payment.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
The office hosts service commissions when available. Glimmers can compare the offered payment with the time needed to travel here and finish the task.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
The armoury hosts offered service commissions. Available work gives Glimmers another way to earn tokens in town.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
A surveyed destination that can host service work when offered. The dedicated introductory defense study action takes place at the library.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
Glimmers can carry out offered service commissions at the clinic. Like other town jobs, these require funding and completed work before payment.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
The mill and docks host offered service commissions beside the river. Reaching them takes travel time, which a Glimmer weighs against the tokens it can earn.
When offered and funded, a site service commission pays 16 T gross after travel and 35 simulated seconds of work at the building.
The order must still be available when claimed. Payment follows completed work; income tax can reduce the amount received.
Illustrations show the town’s visual design. Activities describe the current simulation rules; availability changes as the world runs.
Follow a Glimmer from its first recorded moment
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