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Zeno posted a link to a really, really awesome game online. It's called Gene Pool. It's this little life sim where you set the paramaters for a group of creatures to repoduce, and then watch what happens. It's simple, but really addicting.

I have two main species living in my tank right now: The Christmas Trees and the Flitterbitters. The Christmas Trees look like trees and are red and green, hence their name. They have a main body which splits into two arms, each of which splits into four fingers. Then I have the Flitterbitters, which are green and have "wings" made of lots of body parts. I also have a minor species I like to call Bluebottle Squid, which are two and three-tentacles squid-looking creatures.

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Wow...this awesome! *throws homework away and starts playing*

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I like it, but it doesn't look like you can create species. Can you?

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i find it creepy.

I was playing it yesterday for a while. I mostly just mate them. Is that possible for cells? I thought they divided. That game's awesome... Fun game, IMO.

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Yay, this game is awesome.

My current favorite creature is Fractal-legs.

I started a new pool, and let it run overnight. But, when I woke up this morning and checked it, everything was dead.

How do I get food bits to appear?

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They'll appear on their own, but if you keep running short, go up to Pool, Tweak Ecology, and make "Food Birth Delay" lower.

EDIT: If you're trying to get things to evolve faster, increasing both Food Birth Delay and Food Birth Spread Radius makes it harder for things to get food, making natural selection work faster.

Right now I'm trying to get a particular mutation to occur. Currently, my fractal-legs are based on two; that is, they have two limbs, which split in two, and those parts split in two again. I'm trying to up that to three. I know it's possible, because I've actually had one turn into that, but his offspring didn't carry the trait.

Some of those things scare the crap out of me for some reason. They're freaky.

This whole thing is unnatural I say!

I've downloaded it, and it's really cool. I can't tell when they're mating, though, and my best swimmers keep swimming too far away and dying So I'm getting stuck with ones that can't do anything but mate. They'll probably die soon, though.

This game has desensitized me

Bah. I keep trying to breed the best swimmers, but I end up killing off everything else eventully.

Any tips? Should I do what Zenooo said and make the food delay and spread higher?

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I may have made a mistake by not interfering... my best swimmer is terrible. Most of them can barely move, btu they're all next to each other so they keep mating with others than can barely move and now nothing can move! How can natural selectio work if all of the selections suck? Maybe it'll combine two of the bad selections to make a good end result...

I'd play it but my fear against downloads prevents me.
I'm content to wait for spore: http://www.spore.com/

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Couldn't have said it better myself!

Sometimes you end up with a bunch of crappy swimmers. I usually just start over then.

My most recent pool has been pretty good, I've got two distinct species that are about equally good. Hopefully they'll cross-breed into something awesome.

Huh. I don't really breed them in any particular way, just let them mate with whoever they want, really. But I have got some really freaky looking stuff, though.

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It's interesting how much of it is luck. ANd I've noticed that usually the swimbots they say are the best swimmers actually aren't - the ones that mvoe fasest usually can';t turn well (Or at least the undeveloepd oens that move fasest) I've decided I won't interfere, though I have made it so less food will appear (As SZ suggested) and I'll see how it does.

This is an awesome game. I started with frogs because I like them all starting the same so I can see just how strange they become.

Currently I have three sectors with three different kinds of microorganisms.

1. The largest section is my basic breeding ground. Most of the normal looking frogs live moderately well here, making basic mutations. If I find an interesting one, I'll do something with it. Currently I have too interesting ones.
2. The second group is full of these tiny one-cell blobs that can hibernate indefinitely. Coming in green and yellow colors, they sit patiently forever, but can get extremely active if I disturb them.
3. A bunch of awesome orange super-long super-crazy organisms that are actually doing very well.

I wonder now this will turn out.

Edit: The original group one of basic frogs are dying out. This may leave just the Tiny Hiberators and the Long Orange Thrashers left.

I started playing last night and I've come up with 3 interesting bots: the Spiny Pineapple (a little oval-shaped, yellow segmented thing with lots of long thin green spines coming out the top), the Window Screen (when it moves, it splays out its many legs, creating a grid- really cool) and the Gummi Worm (a long wiggly one with four colors in it). I'll see if I can get pics.

It should be easy to tell which is which.

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I'm trying to get a working design on this new creature I've made. It's a long orange thing with three pairs of legs, though right now the last pair are useless. It moves pretty well, but it has trouble turning. I think if it were longer it'd be able to turn better.

Well, #1 is almost entirely died out, and #2 is still hanging out, now with a blue color. Surviving mostly by hibernating. They won't really eat or breed without my intervention, so I'm not sure what's going to happen to them.

My orange ones, for the most part, have evolved into these red and blue worm creatures... some short and some long. It appears that the shorter ones survive better.

Recently I increased the food's effeciency to give my organizisms a leg up on the pile.

And now there's a new strand... a random mutation that I nurtured and has now taken off. Green string organisms that are now going nuts with strange and awesome patterns.

I decided to start with frogs, and they're doing well. I've mostly got ones with short heads and two long legs. They mvoe fairly quickly and can turn pretty well, so they're good. Now some of them are starting to evolve to have one of their legs branch off into two smaller legs about 2/3 of the way down, but they don't seem to eb doing as well.

I also wittnessed a time of desolatgion, where babeis were having babies. it was quite odd, they just kept mating.

I've also got a nice balance of food to btos going, there's a steady opposite curve, neither going lower than 100 at any given time. So I shouldn't have to worry about that too mcuh.

EDIT: Ok, now I'm getting scared. I clicked the mutual lvoe button and saw some mating. AT that moment, one grew very large, and scared teh crap outta me. Then I moved over and mroe started doing it. Startling.

After letting them live freely for hours with optimum food conditions, and now they're thriving with over 1,000 organisms at a time, living with only 120 food.

There are two main species: smallish ones with dominant blue tentacles, and long orange-and-red centipede/snake ones.

So now I know what they can become... so now I'm wondering who would survive should food become scarce. Mass extinction time!

Well, my first pool has largely died. The Christmas Trees and the Snakes combined to form two-legged big Christmas Tree Things, but there's not a lot of food. They snakes swim very well, though. Both quickly and turning-wise.

I've started a new pool... not much interesting so far.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

This one's going well. Now I've got this whole group of "Superfrogs" and they didn't even start from frogs. They have a small head and medium legs. On each of the medium legs there are two smaller legs. They clap and medium legs together and can move and turn well. They're quicklyt becoming the dominant species (Food is sparse and things are dying left and right)

I love this game already.
My pool:

My main species right now:

I call it crazy legs. Unlike the other half of my pool, crazy legs works very well, and it is able to turn toward objects! He doesn't look half bad either.

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Do his legs go back and forth, clapping together? Those are a good species.

"Superfrogs" continue to dominate, I guess it's a very good species, as, even when mating with other species, almost all, if not all, of the Superfrog's traits remain. Not much hs changed, though red Sueprfrogs have been popping up more, and I think I saw a blue one, maybe even a yellow.

I tried to increase the number of differant swimbots by lowering the food limit for a while and then raiseing it suddenly. This leads to a mass extinction. However, crazylegs wasn't effected, and now I have a pool full of one kind of creature.

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Well, after leaving it alone for several hours in plenty of food, my microbe civilization flourished, peaking at around 1100 consistant microbes.

The dominant species, i.e. 95%, consists of many variations of a common design: Long, thick strains of alternating orange and red color (it's pretty!), with many skinny blue "feet". Here's a picture of the basic template!



After saving, I launched my mass extinct approach. With lesser food (and that food being poor quality), the wonderous beings started dying out. The hyper ones disappeared rather quickly, leaving only the sluggish ones. Unfortunately they eventually started dying out as well, and soon my pond was entirely empter.

Someday I'm gonna breed one of those suckers to look like Trogdor. That'll be awesome.

Eh, this is complicated. I can't figure out breeding very well and stuff. But I did find this one hilarious little creature...... basically, it's a little blue line that swims around all day long. But man, the only thing this guy can THINK about is sex. It's hilarious. All the time I watched him he was pursuing mates like Nobody's Business. XD

EDIT: Right now these large orange tentacled things are pretty much taking over.... the other species are dying out or something......

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