{"author_name":"scoopsy","cat":"LD #24","comments":[{"author_name":"disperse","time":"August 24, 2012 10:46 pm","epoch":1345866360,"text":"This is surprisingly similar to my design so far. Mine is a bit less abstract but the idea of traveling through a graph and collecting resources is the same.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1345858140,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"54069","p_author":"scoopsy","p_authorkey":"10538","p_urlkey":"89772","p_title":"Riot Control","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345858140","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10538","us_name":"scoopsy","us_username":"scoopsy","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

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After a couple of hours of thinking and drinking, I\u2019ve finally hit upon an idea that I think is feasible and interesting for the Ludum Dare theme \u201cEvolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a mild\u00a0ochlophobe<\/a>, which means I have difficulty with large, densely populated crowd. As such, reading the research paper\u00a0Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster<\/a>\u00a0was terrifying and it has remained lodged in my mind ever since.<\/p>\n

All of this is a long winded way of saying I\u2019ve had crowds on my mind lately. So when Evolution was announced, a thousand ideas came and went (\u201cLemmings + Genetic Algorithms!\u201d, \u201cTemple of Doom and Speciation!\u201d) until I settled on something interesting, but also simple enough I stand a chance of implementing it in a weekend: selecting paths through a city for rioters such that they pick up new and diverse elements from the city while avoiding cops and opposing elements.<\/p>\n

Still vague and high level, but the idea will be to trace a path through the lines of a Voronoi diagram (which should theoretically resemble the winding streets of an old European city) so that a cloud of dots can traverse it and \u201cabsorb\u201d some of the elements of the Voronoi polygons it walks adjacent to.<\/p>\n

It makes sense in my brain at least!<\/p>\n

-SP<\/p>","time":"August 24th, 2012 8:29 pm","title":"Riot Control"}