Tom comments on a busy week that shows the strengths of contemporary artificial life.

If you are on Facebook, join the Ape Reality group! In addition, Tom talks about interviews, updates in Noble Ape development and the end of the Noble Ape tshirt giveaway for the time being thanks to a Cafepress price increase.

Tom discusses a number of topics including avatars in book and ape form, the Greythumb blog and random moments in Noble Apes.

Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, Tom talks about the reasons he has been able to maintain the Noble Ape development and an upcoming interview.

Tom discusses the central elements of the cognitive simulation - fear and desire - and how they relate to real world societies as well as metaphorical monkeys.

Tom welcomes new folks to the podcast and talks about how you should approach the Ape Reality podcast for the first time.

Tom welcomes new folks to the podcast, talks about polygonal graphics, a new Ape Reality specific tshirt and a release of the Simulation.

Finally some productive Noble Ape tech and other unrelated debriefs

Tom talks about the ongoing True3D graphics development, renewing his IGDA membership, and artificial life academia present and future

Tom discusses OpenGL vs Ocelot, hobby equals standards and the book project