Explorations

Dec 7th 2005 – Ants

I want to set it up so neither population ever dies out, they just compete for land and sheep.

This might work:

http://www.austingriffith.com/aibattle/insects.php?humanbrain=Vincent&orcbrain=Sherman

Dec 7th 2005 – Evasion

I’d like to start using that NumberOfFriendsInRadar variable. Jeff had a bot that would evade and then gather and attack,

Enter: Vincent with this rule:

If a Vincent is in trouble, it runs home shouting. If others hear the shouting, they come help:

Vincent absolutely kills the DumbHunter.

Let’s run an official battle against Sherman:

Sherman got rolled. I think we have a winner.

Dec 6th 2005 – Obstacles

Object avoidance tests can now be run….

Dec 4th 2005 – Defense!

So far, all the brains I have designed have been pretty aggressive. I’d like to look at how defensive brains will perform.

So I designed Larry. Larry has a few simple rules:

The important rule:

They hang out at home…

Until an enemy comes in:

With this method, they have more fighters because it is on their home turf:

Watch how Larry can certainly fight off DumbHunter, but then never goes out and attacks his castle: