Well, I’ve put about an hour of work in so far (not much), but it’s starting to look like a good ol’ fashioned “Oh crap, this game concept isn’t actually fun” jam. I was kind of envisaging a lot more pillaging and stuff, but it turns out that AI are hard to program. I just need some organisms that will eat and fight, but my “move randomly unless you see something – if you see something, kill it!” seems to be poorly implemented and not really a good strategy. Also, the bottom of the food-chain is hard to make. I mean, everything’s gotta eat, so everything’s gotta be able to kill it, but it has to be abundant… so… I’m going to have to figure out how to make it reproduce…<\/p>\n
Ugh, who would’ve thought that biology was so complicated. I wonder if I can somehow evolve the whole game field into a starting state – it worked on Earth didn’t it? Also, on an unrelated note, I just made life a whole lot happier: when animals don’t fight, they reproduce like mad!<\/p>\n
(Of course, brushes with failure are how I know I’m doing it right! You don’t get into trouble without taking risks.)<\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2012 6:32 pm","title":"The Less You Eat, The More You Reproduce"}