I'm a really late arrival to this neurological sandbox. I discovered it purely by accident when looking for a sandbox game like Powdertoy (yes, those are two different genres). It's fantastic and I'm glad to hear it will still be around despite finalization at 1.0. I also am happy to hear a possible Version 2.0 is planned in the years to come. It's nice to get a peek behind the scenes at what makes me do the things I do without thought, like maintaining balance while walking, instantly pulling my hand back after touching a hot stove and so on.
What is the difference between the downloadable and the website in terms of functionality?
I hadn't heard of Powdertoy before, what a fascinating game 👀 love sandboxes like that.
Yay, I'm glad it's got you thinking about what might actually be going on to allow us to move through the world. That's spot-on for what my intention has been with this.
The downloadable version lets you save creatures locally instead of on the cloud, has likely better performance, access to moddable files like being able to program your own ion channels, and a few niche utilities like being able to record and save neuron activity to file.