Context-aware behavior
Project progress and time remaining produce an urgency value that shifts the likelihood of work and rest.
Truuts experiment
The Office Experiment
An experimental office simulation where autonomous characters work, take breaks, talk and respond to the pressure of a shared deadline.
About the experiment
The Office Experiment is a management simulation built around a living office rather than a static dashboard.
Twenty employees navigate the workplace and autonomously alternate between working, taking coffee or food breaks, talking and wandering. Their behavior changes with project urgency, energy, burnout, role and personality.
The objective is to complete the quarterly goal within 90 simulated days without exhausting the team or running out of money. The live scene focuses on the autonomous system at the center of that experience.
How it works
Tamashii evaluates the current project context and each employee's state, then uses weighted selection to choose the next activity.
Decisions are influenced by:
- project progress and time remaining
- energy and time spent focused
- burnout and the need for a break
- role-based work and social tendencies
- individual personality traits
- crunch mode and time of day
Live simulation
The Tamashii model runs autonomously. Observe the office, pause time or reveal agent goals, state, routes and the collision map.
Tamashii simulation
Play the experiment
A standalone playable version of The Office Experiment is available on itch.io.
Technical concepts
Energy and burnout
Continuous work drains energy, while high burnout reduces work capacity and makes restorative activities more likely.
Roles and personality
Developers, QA employees and managers receive distinct tendencies, varied by workaholic, social, anxious and resilient traits.
Weighted decisions
Tamashii scores possible activities and makes a weighted choice instead of following a fixed scripted sequence.
Spatial navigation
Characters use A* pathfinding over the office walkability map and follow routes around walls and furniture.
Management systems
The complete build surrounds the autonomous office with budget, salaries, progress, random events and temporary interventions.
Simulation insight
Debug view exposes the observable state used by Tamashii without inventing private reasoning.
Agent stateActivity · goal · energy · burnout
Project contextDay · progress · urgency · crunch mode
Navigation
Current destination, A* route and walkability map
Personality model
Workaholic · social · anxious · resilience