Story and basic commands are coming along.  One of these days I’m going to learn to not write like a teenager, but today is not that day.

You can exile people from the island…

There are regular capitalists, and then there are evil capitalists. Here, I exiled the sole evil capitalist from the island.

You can also exile individuals, or broader groups. One time I exiled all males from the island, but there were a couple transgender folks – biological males identifying as female – that weren’t exiled. They had children and decades later the population had rebounded.

You can also do some awful things, like “exile all orphans”. I mean, how evil do you have to be to do that.

What group would you want to exile?

The game gets slow around a population of 5000 or so. This is because the couple-matching algorithm is O(n^2). Luckily the game is going to be a far lower population, so this won’t be a problem.

Next, I plan to give the player more choices, namely tax policy (no tax? flat tax? progressive tax? estate tax?). Plus a few random choices or events, like “Community Chest” in Monopoly. What else should I add? There could be different goals, from being selfish by owning the entire island and controlling wealth, to being benevolent by eliminating poverty or inequality.

Right now it only runs on command line Mac OS X. If I have time, I’ll export to WebGL via Emscripten.