That's actually a quite common pattern in artificial life community (inspired by real world behaviors from insects): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy htt

That's actually a quite common pattern in artificial life community (inspired by real world behaviors from insects): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization Also Sims had some "intelligence" embedded into objects instead of the agents: http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/coverage/feature.asp?feature_id=51 http://www.gamedev.net/columns/events/coverage/feature.asp?f...