Love it! I built a similar alife simulation but as a Quake 2 mod using the monsters as the agents and plants and stuff with neural nets and genetic algorithms.

Love it! I built a similar alife simulation but as a Quake 2 mod using the monsters as the agents and plants and stuff with neural nets and genetic algorithms. My piece was titled "Ecosystem: Constructing a simple self-perpetuating society of adaptable agents" [1]. This was 2003, not for school but for fun. I submitted it for an ai writing comp on ai-depot.com but the comp failed for lack of entries. I have some pics on a repo backup of the project [2]. Agreed, "nature of code" looks like fun! [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080624004102/http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/jbrownlee/other/ecosystem/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080624004102/http://www.ict.sw... [2]: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/HumanDebrisArchive?tab=readme-ov-file#quake-ai-essays https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/HumanDebrisArchive?tab=rea...