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I will join and lead group B!

Awesome! Now that group B is manned, what do you want to do, YMIBANWAH?

Dets65 wrote:

Awesome! Now that group B is manned, what do you want to do, YMIBANWAH?

I'm not sure, maybe I will make a turn based RPG similar to Pokemon on a random world, with lots of cool features!

Last edited by YMIBANWAH (2013-01-13 11:53:30)

programmer 112?
anyone?

Great programmer! I hope you come out with a test soon!

This seems awesome. I would be interested in working on the simulator.

How does the simulator interact with the game?

Jag97, thanks! You can download the current version of the simulator here; http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Dets65/3036217

I tried leaving your simulator running for an hour or so, and the numbers just kept increasing, which is a flaw - at some point the carnivore population should have a larger net increase per time than the herbivore population, and both end up dropping to near extinction.

I created my own animated simulation, which represents an ecosystem and has potential for evolution. Organisms are represented by dots, plants grow over time, and animals wander randomly while shrinking slowly. When a blue herbivore touches a green plant, the plant shrinks and the animal grows. When a red carnivore touches an herbivore, it does the same. When any organism reaches a certain size, it shrinks and spawns a new, small organism with the same traits. When an organism goes below a certain size, it dies, and its sprite will be reused for a new organism that spawns.

Any sprite can be a plant, herbivore or carnivore, and this is done by giving each sprite a code. Each number in the code represents diet, speed, spawning rate, or some other characteristic, and these are set to the parent sprite's code whenever a sprite spawns. There is currently no evolution, but it would be easy to add.

However, making new sprites is a time consuming process. Every sprite needs its own variable and broadcasts, which means going through the script and replacing everything. Plus, every time you add a new sprite, you need to give other sprites scripts for eating or being spawned by it, and add a spawning script to the stage. This can take 5 to 10 minutes per sprite. As of now, I only have three, two that are initially plants and one that begins as an herbivore. Read the project notes for full instructions on how to add new sprites.

If you want to look at the project, go to http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jag97/3036727 . As of now, the herbivore will die rather quickly, because when the plants grow large there are no new sprites for them to spawn.

Optimally, I think the simulation should begin with 15 plants, 5 herbivores, and a carnivore, plus have at least 20 bonus sprites for when a sprite reaches the size at which it can spawn which are not on the starting board. This will require a lot of effort, but if you just add one sprite a day and increase the version number by .01, I will too, and together we can get it there in no time.

Bump?

My test is online here.

I would like to join group C

I can help with doing Python code.