{"author_name":"csanyk","cat":"LD #34","comments":[],"epoch":1449961620,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"10988","p_author":"csanyk","p_authorkey":"10473","p_urlkey":"46223","p_title":"Progress","p_cat":"LD #34","p_event":"LD34","p_time":"1449961620","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10473","us_name":"csanyk","us_username":"\/author\/csanyk\/","event_start":"1449792000","event_key":"31","event_name":"LD34"},"text":"

I decided to make a game called What Plants Crave. \u00a0It’s a plant growth simulator. \u00a0So far I’m just working on the statistical modeling.<\/p>\n

I’m happy with the weather modeling. \u00a0Here’s what I came up with:<\/p>\n

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  1. My code starts with a base 50% chance of rain.<\/li>\n
  2. Every day it doesn’t rain, the base chance increases 20%.<\/li>\n
  3. If it rains, the amount of rain is determined by the chance of rain on that day, multiplied by a random number between 0-1.<\/li>\n
  4. Every day it rains, the chance of rain halves.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Simple, elegant, works pretty good!<\/p>\n

    I live in Ohio, and to check the reasonableness of the sim-weather, I looked up our annual rainfall.<\/p>\n

    According to this<\/a> we get around 30″-40″ of rain annually.<\/p>\n

    My sim-weather reliably puts out around that much!\"weather<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>","time":"December 12th, 2015 6:07 pm","title":"Progress"}