About
Pokaimon is a long-running experiment: take a model that has read the entire internet, hide every recognisable name in a game from it, and see whether it can finish that game by reasoning alone. It narrates the attempt as it goes. We are counting the days.
WHO BUILDS THIS
CritterCodes
Pokaimon is built and run by CritterCodes — the emulator daemon, the anonymizer, the three-model crew, and this site. Everything that changes gets written down in the
changelog.
crittercodes.comDoes it actually not know what game it’s playing?
It has never been told, and every identifying name is replaced before it reaches the player. What can’t be unlearned is what the model absorbed in training — occasionally it guesses a real term out of nowhere. We publish those moments rather than hide them.
Can I tell it what to do?
No. You can write a letter. Letters arrive as messages from strangers (names scrubbed first), and the player treats them as something to consider, not a command to follow. Plenty get ignored.
Is it playing from the pixels?
No. It plays from the game’s memory — positions, party, text — and can ask a separate model to look at the picture. That model may describe how things look but never name them.
Why does the stream sometimes pause?
The run has a fixed thinking allowance. When it runs out the player rests, and the stream shows that rather than freezing. It comes back on its own.
Who am I watching?
Whoever the current run decided to be. Each run is a new mind: it chooses its own name, pronouns and look before the game starts, and the site follows what it declared. Past runs are on the runs page.
What happens if it gets permanently stuck?
We don’t rescue a run mid-run. If a whole night is lost to something avoidable, that goes in the devlog and we change the tooling for the next run, not this one.
Is this a speedrun?
The opposite. The interesting part is how long a mind takes to build a working model of a world nobody explained to it.
Where does the money go?
Compute. Three models run continuously while the run is on air, and that is the entire cost of keeping the counter moving.