thanks man! I was wondering why, if I give a creature multiple legs, it usually ends up only using one. It seems that it finds that one leg works better if the others are off the ground, but it isn’t trying to synchronize leg movements. I think, instead of making one muscle work at its best before moving on, that after a genetic leap forward on one muscle, it should move on to the other muscles and try to develop them evenly. maybe make the first random guess for the next muscle be the same as what worked on the previous muscle… I could go on, but I’ll stop here because I know I can get annoying when I blather on about ifs and maybes. Seriously though, nice work!

When it generates an instruction set, the instruction set is for all the muscles. So it develops all muscles at the same time… Something I want to add in a future version is the ability to define muscle “groups”, that is, multiple muscles that trigger at the same time and are essentially linked together.

sounds like it’ll be good. I’ve been trying to get Box2D working for a couple weeks now. I see that’s what you used for your physics engine. I completely understand if you would rather not, but I’d really like to look inside your program. Maybe if you have an outdated version with bare bones AI, could I look at it?

Alright. Like I said, I completely understand and I’d probably do the same. It’ll just take me a bit longer to figure out how to do it, but you’ve peaked my interest and I’m gonna see if I can handle my own genetic algorithms.

Verilywoah, the main reason is because a sponsor would find a game that is open source less attractive for them to sponsor in the first place, because not all versions of the game would be under the control of the developer, and thus, there would most likely be versions of the game floating around the net without the sponsor’s branding in place. And, on all the sponsorships I have so far, the terms are such that I can’t release the source. You got me thinking though, that it would be pretty cool to open source a small, unsponsored, project just to help other devs get their feet wet. No promises, but I might do something like that someday.