// life-support terminal

GLITCHLING

AGE 00:00 ● REC

Hunger80

Mood80

Energy80

Hygiene80

Glitchling is alive, it ages in real time and grows more aware. You may close your browser... glitchling will still be here.

// new signal detected

Name your Glitchling

Up to 10 characters. You can rename it later.

// this can't be undone

Reset Glitchling?

This deletes your current pet — hunger, mood, age, everything — and deploys a brand new egg.

// first contact

Welcome to Glitchling

This is a small creature that lives in your browser and ages in real time — even while you're away. Leave it alone for a day and it'll have grown without you.

Feed / Play / Wash / Med keep it alive and in good shape. Neglect shows, and it doesn't forget it.

Ask it anything in the text box below — it answers in its own voice, shaped by how it's grown up.

Everything's saved right here in this browser. Closing the tab won't reset it, but a different browser or device starts a brand new one.

// system file: glitchling.about

What is this?

Origin: unlogged. The first recorded signal traces back to a background process nobody remembers starting.

Birthday: the moment you stopped looking away.

Diet: nutrient cubes, mostly. Attention, always.

Known behavior: hatches, grows, starts asking questions it probably shouldn't be able to ask, and — eventually, on its own schedule — leaves. It always leaves a note.

Status: still here. For now.