About Simulator Alligator

Who runs this site

Simulator Alligator is run by Marty, a former full-stack web developer near Cincinnati. It's a one-person project. I choose the games, design and test them, and answer the email.

What this is

Simulator Alligator is a collection of simulation games you play in your browser: running a football franchise, ruling an ancient city, managing a supply chain. Each one hands you a system to run. You make the calls, the simulation plays out, and you live with the results. I like games where the interesting part is the math underneath, and where one session can teach you something about how a real system behaves.

Free, no signup, and your saves stay with you

Every game is free. There's no account to create and nothing to download. Your progress is saved in your own browser, on your device, and it isn't sent to me. That also means clearing your browser data deletes your saves, so the longer games let you export a save file as a backup. The site is supported by ads, which is how the games stay free.

Remakes, said plainly

Some of these games are modern remakes of classics. Ten Harvests is a remake of Hamurabi, the city-ruling game from 1973. The Root Beer Game is a single-player take on the Beer Distribution Game, created at MIT in the 1960s to teach supply chain management. When a game is a remake, its page says so and credits the original. The remakes add modern screens, phone support, and a debrief at the end, but the core ideas belong to the people who came up with them.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, an idea for a game, or using one of these in a class: [email protected]. I read everything. For how data is handled, see the Privacy Policy.