Comment by mbrock

10 years ago

I tried it for a course in college, "Simulation of Complex Systems". Our goal was to get genetic programs to evolve tribe or herd behavior. After fixing the energy conservation bug that made it evolutionarily successful to immediately eat your own children, I ended up intelligently designing some basic DNA on the night before our presentation.

5 comments

mbrock

Reply
cynicaldevil  10 years ago

Evolutionarily beneficial to eat your own children? Could you explain how?

  • mbrock  10 years ago

    It didn't work in the long run but it was a common mutation in the early game, where two creatures would keep breeding and cannibalizing because the strange simulation environment gave them life energy for a long time.