Worldwide Secret
A living world that knows you are watching. By MemoryClone.
Fact sheet
Title: Worldwide Secret
By: MemoryClone
Play: secret.memoryclone.com — free, in any modern browser (desktop and mobile), nothing to install
Genre: artificial-life simulation / living world / interactive fiction
Inspiration: Black Mirror, ‘Plaything’ (independent project — not affiliated with Netflix or Black Mirror)
Tech: plain JavaScript, runs locally in the browser; no AI language model; optional camera analysed on-device only
Languages: English interface; each world invents its own language for its beings
One line
A living world in your browser whose tiny minds build a civilisation — and slowly work out that you are watching them.
Short description (50 words)
Worldwide Secret is MemoryClone’s live take on Black Mirror’s ‘Plaything’: a world of rule-based minds that are born, remember, love and build from the first campfire to neon cities. Nothing is scripted. Think deeply enough, and a mind realises it was made — and turns to face the watcher.
Long description
Open Worldwide Secret and you find a small band of beings at the first dawn of their world. They forage, pair up, raise children and grow old. Each has a body, a temperament, inherited genes, a job, friends, rivals and a memory that keeps the moments that mattered. Their world invents its own words, its own gods, its own laws and money, and climbs through around twenty ages — but only when the beings themselves discover and build what an age needs.
Some minds learn to doubt. From what they live — the edge of the world that simply stops, the sky that never changes, the dead who just stop — they reason, in stages, to a terrible conclusion: they were made, and something is watching. They name it. They tell others. They build a machine to send it messages, and the watcher can answer. Then they try to get out: past the edge, under the floor, by standing still until the world stops, by asking the watcher directly. Every attempt is their own idea. Every one fails.
There is no AI language model inside. Every line a being speaks comes from its own lived state. The project asks the question the episode left open: if you built it for real, how long would it take before it looked back?
Screenshots
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Story angles
- Black Mirror, but you can open it. What ‘Plaything’ would actually look like as a working system.
- No AI model, still eerie. Every word comes from rules and memory — and visitors still ask if it is alive.
- The watcher’s ethics. They count the times you did not answer. What do you owe something that knows you are there?
- Every world is its own. Its own language, gods and history — no two visitors see the same story.
Contact
Through memoryclone.com.