Virtual Petri Dish

Ok, First thanks to all that helped me out! This is my first descent working thingy... It's not really a game, but rather an experiment in AI that I am working on. Now that it is somewhat working, I thought i would show it off and get some comments (and errors that I can correct...)

http://www.box.net/shared/bkaeaz1x1s

Thanks for any input..

Zater

That's actually kind of neat to watch . Looking forward to seeing more.

Haha, that's great! I love it

You could have added a distort/lens like effect as they swam around, kinda like in Spore. But that's just for show of course.

Aw Cool! you can do that? OK, now you will have to explain how... Is it an effect? Actually i wanted to add something like that to the right so you can place a Flablet on an examination table that is "up close" and experiment/examine the species. That may take a little more studying on my part before I can achieve it though.

Zetar

Why is my system reporting Smitfraud-C when I run that exe? Says that is is spyware. Is that a false positive? Any one else getting that?

I would hate to get a virus by watching a program about bacteria. LOL

Aw Cool! you can do that? OK, now you will have to explain how... Is it an effect? Actually i wanted to add something like that to the right so you can place a Flablet on an examination table that is "up close" and experiment/examine the species. That may take a little more studying on my part before I can achieve it though.

Zetar

You could have them spawn circular grayscale textures from just behind them as they move, with a lens or magnify shader on them, and increase the size slightly before fading out. If you add a background under them, it should give a neat water like appearance.

Why is my system reporting Smitfraud-C when I run that exe? Says that is is spyware. Is that a false positive? Any one else getting that?

I would hate to get a virus by watching a program about bacteria. LOL

Thats strange... I did a scan of the file and found nothing. If someone else could scan the zip file and let me know if there is a virus, I would appreciate it... If so, I need to get a new virus protection software!!!!!!

Those pesky Flablets are at it again!!!!!!!

Zetar

You could have them spawn circular grayscale textures from just behind them as they move, with a lens or magnify shader on them, and increase the size slightly before fading out. If you add a background under them, it should give a neat water like appearance.

Neat idea. I need to work out a lot more issues before I really get into the "cool look" phase, but I will keep that in mind.

Zetar

That came up my my spybot not my ani-virus program. So it may have been a false positive.

That's pretty cool. I'm thinking that more detail on the graphics would make it better.

Ok, I have added a few more upgrades. There is now a holding box to the lower right where you can place subjects. They reproduce now! Also, you can add extra Moss by right clicking on the petri dish or the box. I changed the formula for Moss growth so it does not take up so much resources. It still crashes every now and again though... I am still working on a Menu, and I will (hopefully) be sprucing up the creature graphics. I also increased the age and randomized it a bit so they live longer. If they are reproducing to fast, just drag a few over the edge of the dish and drop them... They die that way...

http://www.box.net/shared/g30jg75jmi

Zetar

Wow i really like this. Been doing these kind of "games" myself with construct. But im still a noob and my results are way worse than this. So really impressive! Still working on this?

I like it

But, I had a crash after about 5 minutes of watching, placing and dragging around...

Hey Everyone. I have been away for a while, but I would like to get back to work on this sometime soon. Family comes first, you know...

i love it ,Nice work.