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Code. Play. Teach. Learn. Research. Demo.

An online coding and hosting platform for everyone.

34 countries 2,153 coders 9,335 worlds 506,554 runs 3.2 million lines of code Update stats

P5 chase World
187 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 4 Aug 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Example of World with Mind on P5 plain API. No AB framework. Have to call Mind yourself. Mind mo...

Landmark Museum
119 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Christopher Dobey Ireland

Created: 4 Dec 2023
Modified: 4 Feb 2024
A walkthrough tour of the most significant landmarks in any given country. Three.js 3D World wit...

Stylish Image Ge...
372 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Daniel Pelech
Created: 23 Nov 2023
Modified: 4 Feb 2024
Convert user prompt to a set of images. Uses Sohail Ahmed's text to image API at Rapid API: http...

Lion Chase
435 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Martin Derwin
Created: 30 Nov 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Don't get caught by the lions

An online coding platform

Ancient Brain is an online coding and hosting platform for everyone.
See Introduction and List of features.

Coders: Make 3D worlds and share them with friends. Clone and edit other people's worlds. Make multi-user games and environments. Make touch mobile games. Upload your own images, music and 3D models. Embed your worlds on other sites.

Teachers: Run courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Run programming practicals in 3D graphics or 2D graphics or text, with many features designed for teachers. Safely edit and run student code.

Learners: Do courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Clone other people's worlds and change one or two lines. What's the worst that could happen?

Gamers: Play the endless game worlds the coders make. Come and browse an ever-growing archive of games.

Researchers: Upload problems, tender for solutions, test and rank them. Make hybrid AI systems from the code of multiple authors.

Getting started

You can "run" any of the 9,335 programs or "Worlds" by clicking on them. But this is also a coding site, where you can code your own Worlds. You can use this site to learn to code. Or show off your creations if you are an experienced coder.

Basically you can read more about how to get started running Worlds and coding:

Getting started

Or you can leap straight into coding with our starter tutorial:

P5 Starter tutorial

Programming course

Ancient Brain has a course in how to program from scratch.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 7.8 variant
369 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 6 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Tutorial 7.8 with music and other uploaded images, including from other users. Click on the images.

Tutorial 7.3
225 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Arrays of Objects

Tutorial 2.1
547 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Variables in p5.js (mouseX, mouseY)

Tutorial 2.5
163 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
The random() Function

Introduction to Programming

AI course

Ancient Brain has a set of AI programming exercises, with videos and notes. For use in any AI course.
You will get to modify "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Breadth-first se...
2781 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 30 Apr 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Breadth-first search with a Force-directed graph.

A star
3977 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 1 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
"A Star" algorithm to find shortest path through maze.

GA (Finnegans Wake)
999 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 2 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Genetic Algorithm to write the first line of Finnegans Wake.

Character recogn...
1804 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Jul 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Neural network to do character recognition from image database and from handwriting in real-time.

AI exercises

WebGL course

Ancient Brain has a short course in JavaScript 3D graphics ("WebGL") programming.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 18.3
63 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Light and Material

Tutorial 18.5
91 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Camera and Perspective

Tutorial 18.8
90 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
3D Custom Shapes

Tutorial 18.7
410 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Tutorial 18.7 with full canvas, resized model, sound. Texture on box is image from another user.

WebGL course

Starter Worlds for Three.js

These are the main "Starter Worlds" that use the Three.js library (which tends to give the most advanced graphics).

You can Clone and Edit all of these and change their code. Look for a section at the top called the "Tweaker's Box". This contains the easiest things to change.

Simple World
1647 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Simple World with a Mind-controlled agent, randomly-moving enemy, paint blocks with texture.

One Cube World (...
1114 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Apr 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Simple starter World (Three.js version). Built-in camera control.

MineCraft
1116 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 27 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Use keyboard to draw blocks like in MineCraft. Use arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn to draw. Can save w...

Complex World
8204 runs ♦ 5 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
World with a Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy, random maze, skybox, music.

Castle World
786 runs ♦ 4 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of how to insert 3d model into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Splas...

Zombie Death Baby
771 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Jun 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
How to make a fun touch game for mobile. Touch drag and tap objects. Mouse drag and click object...

Blank Three.js World
1506 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 20 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
A simple starter World. An Array of spheres. Painted with textures. Random motion.

Password Websock...
67 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 14 Nov 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Password version of "Websockets boxes"

Touch World
457 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 6 Jan 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
How to override default touch handling. Mobile: Touch drag moves agent, touch pinch zooms camera...

User-controlled ...
917 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 12 Feb 2017
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
3d model World. User controlled on desktop. Keyboard arrows to move. Switch to "Move with" camer...

Model World
856 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 8 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of how to insert 3d models into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Skybox.

Websockets boxes
803 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 29 Feb 2020
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of Websockets in 3D World. Click to change the boxes on the other user's machine, while the...

Random Worlds

Here are some random Worlds that have had more than 30 runs. Reload for more.

Super Mario Maze...
59 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Rishab Sidhu
Created: 20 Nov 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Super Mario Maze" by Cathal Neary

Neural Network D...
98 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Dom
Created: 22 Dec 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Character recognition neural network" by "Coding Train" project

Breadth-first se...
99 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Xin Zhang
Created: 29 Oct 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Breadth-first search (Kevin Bacon)" by "Coding Train" project

Complex World 1 ...
885 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Rob Joscelyne
Created: 4 Nov 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Complex World" by Starter user

Complex World (c...
288 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Mandar Kotnis
Created: 12 Nov 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Complex World (clone by Mandar Kotnis)" by Mandar Kotnis

Chess
60 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Mathias Bazin
Created: 24 Jul 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Chess using chess.js. Plays a random game

Game of Life (cl...
41 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Benjamin Olojo
Created: 27 Sep 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Game of Life" by P5 Editor porting project

P5 translate v. ...
38 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Extra test Ireland

Created: 21 Sep 2023
Modified: 21 Sep 2023
P5 "translate" (cumulative, relative position) versus absolute position

New World
39 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Adam Gray
Created: 8 Nov 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023

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Ancient Brain is looking for a partner to co-write a JavaScript coding book for schools, to be used worldwide. This would be a course for students in learning to code from scratch. The book and course will be integrated into the Ancient Brain site. This is an opportunity for someone looking to develop a course and textbook to partner with a site to promote it. Read more.