I'd certainly be interested in playing this, especially online. I'm envisioning a system where you upload your genome, and the system automatically puts it in b

I'd certainly be interested in playing this, especially online. I'm envisioning a system where you upload your genome, and the system automatically puts it in battles against a random selection of others. Some sort of ranking algorithm is used to create a leaderboard. You can also choose to watch a battle between any two or more genomes you like. To avoid gaming the scoreboard that would probably need to not count towards their score, or only once a day or something. >As a side note, it seems to me that (unless cells can be aware of their comrades' positions) global position needs to be availible in order to build walls, which is damn cool. I don't think so. All global position tells you is "how far away are the boundaries of the map?" Unless there's something I'm missing, you can get everything else just by keeping track of "offset from where I started". As another side note, restricting messages to integers seems pointless, since arbitrary information can be uniquely encoded as an integer given enough ingenuity. It's a problem that would get solved once and then just irritates people instead of actually constraining solutions. (I assume python integers are only bounded by available memory space.) Limiting them to n-bit integers, where n = 4 or 8 for example, would be more pointful, but again I think it would probably only make a particular behaviour harder to implement, not significantly limit the set of behaviours that are possible to implement.