reality-engine

Chronos Engine, also called Reality Engine, is an open-source temporal simulation platform that treats time as the primary interactive dimension. Unlike conventional world simulators that focus on static spatial environments, it models causality as a multidimensional lattice of interlinked moments where every decision generates branching consequences across centuries or millennia. Built on a proprietary Temporal Graph Network (TGN), the engine represents time as a continuous, elastic fabric, with events emerging from agent goals, resource constraints, and environmental stochasticity rather than a fixed schedule. It's designed for researchers, storytellers, game developers, and futurists who want to model alternate histories, future scenarios, and cause-effect cascades across deep time. Key capabilities include agent-based societal modeling with hierarchical cognition (coalitions, governments, religions) and cultural meme propagation via network contagion. The engine handles causal diffraction—splitting timelines into independent threads—and retrocausal analysis to pinpoint the earliest divergence leading to a specific outcome. Temporal compression and expansion let you speed through centuries or zoom into millisecond-level crises. It supports output in over 40 languages with cultural context adaptation (names, titles, units, calendars), including right-to-left and CJK support. Resource and energy economics track depletion, efficiency, and collapse cycles. The engine scales from a laptop running micro-simulations of a village over a decade to distributed clusters modeling planetary civilizations over ten thousand years. It's currently in experimental stage: no GUI, no commercial support, no 3D spatial simulation, and requires coding expertise. It's hosted on GitHub with 121 stars and 352 commits, available free under an open-source license. For narrative-driven projects and cause-effect analysis, it's a powerful tool—but it's not for production-ready applications.