Thursday, 7 January 2010

Life Sim Game by Me






Hi,

Just thought I'd talk this week about a life simulator game that I've made. It simulates the conditions in which cells must survive. It is basically a toy, as it has no end goals or conditions, you just get to play with it, however it is quite interesting, as the cells can be created at will by pressing the "C" key and then you watch them flourish. Their size is directly related to how many times that they have mated, however, if they are too sparsely spread they will die of loneliness. They also cannot survive a single tool which I added, called "Fire". At the moment the purpose of this application was an experiment into some AI type areas to be honest, however, it is quite impressive to watch it in action, due to the sheer speed of the mating of these cells.

Fire can be spread to different cells, which makes this tool a chain reaction weapon, which can be used to test the hardiness of the cells which you have created. It is surprising how fast that the cells actually recover their lost numbers after a wave of fire through their numbers. Anyways, the images posted will show the rest. This application only took me a few hours to be honest, but it is quite interesting in terms of the "Psychology" of the AI of the Cells. Thanks for reading, I should have another post up quite soon about any other applications which I have been developing over Christmas and New Year.

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