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Evolution Simulators
    #8533804 - 06/17/08 02:12 PM (2 months, 18 days ago)

Know any good ones?

I'm thinking about writing one.  I have seen Darwin Pond but I don't like the creatures.  Ideally I would like everything in the environment, including the creatures, to be made up of a number of unique 'particles' with special properties that affect their behaviour with other particle types.  Each creature would have one special BRAIN particle with a more complex DNA-type code (a simple program) controlling its frame-by-frame interaction with other particle types.

What I dislike about the few sims I have seen, is that the underlying code behaviour of the individual parts is too complex to make the resulting system interesting.  I want to develop something simpler at the base level which is capable of producing something complex.

If anybody with more expertise knows some of the major pitfalls of designing this kind of system I would love to hear them before I dig myself into a project I can't finish.  Or just some cool ones written by other people to play with.

Thanks


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: sam420]
    #8533887 - 06/17/08 02:35 PM (2 months, 18 days ago)

Ha, I think I might have found the dogs bollocks of evolution simulators right after posting that :smile:

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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: sam420]
    #8543812 - 06/20/08 09:45 AM (2 months, 15 days ago)

hows that gonna help anybody?


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: zembla]
    #8543968 - 06/20/08 10:51 AM (2 months, 15 days ago)

Heard of Spore? that looks like a cool game..


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: sam420]
    #8547725 - 06/21/08 02:41 PM (2 months, 14 days ago)

Write a virus that copies snippets of code it finds and incorporates it randomly into the code of its offspring.

Then, release on the net.


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: Wiccan_Seeker]
    #8548962 - 06/21/08 09:49 PM (2 months, 13 days ago)

haha,,,Oh my god my puter gave me HERP's


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: entheomandotcom]
    #8549336 - 06/22/08 12:46 AM (2 months, 13 days ago)

what are you talking about?  Evolution simulators?  Why do you (want to) mess with that?  I can't see it being remotely accurate, are they?  I've never heard of them...except just now and what I'm putting together from this...


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Re: Evolution Simulators [Re: undergrounder]
    #8558772 - 06/24/08 03:22 PM (2 months, 11 days ago)

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undergrounder said:
Heard of Spore? that looks like a cool game..



Looks like an EPIC game.  I can't wait.  Good to know someone else is look forward to it.


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