A living world that knows you are watching
Worldwide Secret is a world that runs in your browser. Tiny minds are born into it with nothing. They remember, fall in love, argue, raise children, invent words and gods, and build — from the first campfire to neon cities. Nobody scripts what they do. And if a mind thinks deeply enough about the world it lives in, it starts to notice that the world was made… and that something is looking at it.
The idea: Black Mirror’s ‘Plaything’, made real enough to open
In Black Mirror’s episode ‘Plaything’, a man keeps a colony of digital creatures that slowly grows into something far beyond the game it was sold as. Worldwide Secret asks the obvious question: what would that actually look like if you built it? Not a cutscene and not a chatbot — a world of minds you can watch for weeks, that develops on its own, and that eventually turns to face you.
Worldwide Secret is an independent project by MemoryClone. It is inspired by the episode and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Netflix, Black Mirror or its creators.
How they live
Every being has a body (hunger, thirst, energy, health, ageing), a temperament, genes inherited from two parents, skills, a job, friends and rivals, a family tree, private beliefs and a memory that keeps turning points and lets chores fade. They forage, farm, mine, haul, build, trade, teach, fight off wolves, mourn their dead and visit their graves.
Their own language
Each world coins its own words — and dialects drift between clans. You read their speech with a translation underneath.Civilisation, earned
Around twenty ages, from the First Dawn to Neon 2077 and beyond. An age is reached only when the beings themselves discover and build what it needs.Faith, law, money
Religions are founded by prophets, laws are voted, coin and markets appear when trade demands them.Every world is different
Different land, temperament, tongue, gods and history. No two worlds ever tell the same story.How they wake
No machine tells them the truth. A mind that has learned to doubt collects evidence from its own life — the edge of the world that just stops, the sky that never changes, the dead who simply stop, the feeling of being looked at — until, in stages, it understands: we were made, and we are watched. It gives the watcher a name in its own language. It tells others. Some of them wake too.
They try to reach you — and to get out
Once they know, they do what any intelligent, trapped people would. They build a machine to speak to you and send transmissions — and you can answer. Your words spread from mind to mind and are argued over for years. They reason out ways to leave: walk past the edge, stand still until the world stops, dig under its floor, ask you directly. Every attempt is their own idea, grown from the last failure. None of them works. What you are watching is a people getting smarter about their cage — and deciding what to do with that.
You are the watcher
You cannot command them. You can look, read any mind, talk to anyone, and — if you allow the camera — let them feel you there (camera frames never leave your device). The being whose mind you are reading feels your gaze. Those you speak to remember you, form an opinion of you, greet you after years away and ask you questions. When someone who knew you dies, they leave you their last words.
No AI model inside
There is no language model and no cloud brain. Every word a being says is built from its own lived state, memories, relationships and the language its world invented. The whole world runs locally in your browser and saves there; the server only delivers the page and, if you choose to share your world, a link others can watch.
Don’t want to wait? Step into an old world
A new world starts at its very first dawn and takes hours of watching (or minutes on fast-forward) to reach its ages of reason. On the start screen you can instead step into an old world that has already lived for decades on this same engine — nothing in it was scripted — and arrive in the middle of its awakening.
Made by MemoryClone
Worldwide Secret is a MemoryClone project — experiments with memory, minds and what it would mean for something digital to remember being alive.