ai-town

Why we included this project

AI Town turns the Generative Agents research paper into a working, deployable TypeScript project, where most simulators in this space stay in Python. Instead of a single chatbot, you get a village of characters, each with their own memories and goals, chatting with one another while a simulation engine manages shared state and transactions underneath. It is a practical reference if you want to see how agent memory, reflection, and social behavior fit together in real code, or a head start on a game-like world where autonomous characters interact. Because it works with Ollama for local inference as well as cloud LLMs, you can run a small demo end to end without sending everything to a hosted API. It is a starter kit, not a finished product, so expect to extend the characters and their behavior yourself, but the documentation is solid enough that a small team can get something running quickly.