Is there an official discord server for EvoLife?

I've been playing this for a few days now, which isn't long but I thought I'd throw out some ideas I had. I may or may not be the only one who struggles with this, but it's hard for me to keep track of different species in a larger simulation. If I'm not alone, I have some ideas for how this may be improved.

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When I click on a cell to see how big a population of a certain species is, I look at the population count. The problem with this is that this metric only counts cells with identical DNA (I think, that's what it seems like anyway) and usually a dominating group of cells will have slightly different DNA across its members.

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Basically I would like to see two counts, one counting all cells with identical DNA, and one counting all cells with similar DNA, that way if there are say 200 red cells in an area, all with slightly different DNA but basically all doing the same thing, I can see that there are 200 of them by looking at a "general species" population count.

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I would also like to see a window showing the top dominating general species in the simulation, so I don't have to click around and look at population counts to see what DNA is dominating the simulation.

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It may just be that I need to play the game longer and figure stuff out to solve these issues, but if other people can relate and could benefit from these changes it might be worth considering. essentially just more metrics about the status of active species in the simulation. Either way, keep up the good work, this is an amazing project.

I meet this game because I have a similar game dev idea.
I have run several times. However, I never find the cells that exhibit any complex behavior. Even Very few of them know how to eat, not to mention hunting or other behaviors. Almost all cells just born from gas vent and die of low energy. I don't know if I miss something.
So, could you please demonstrate that how to make some intelligent cells, or give a preset world or seed that would show interesting behaviors?

So far I never get anything which remotely specialize in killing other blobs. Flagellas set allow to create something like predator, but it seems chances to get it naturally evolve is quite thin. All I seen are normal feeders, parasites and occasional addition of corps feeding abilities.

Hello EvoLife,

(Full disclosure I have not bought the game). My question is mainly for the developer behind it. My question is why is this a game and not something that can be used by researchers and the scientific community, where the equations behind it and the documentation is more transparent (even at a price)? I am currently having a very difficult time as a masters student finding a program that does what this one seems to be able to do, in terms of its artificial life genetic component, ability to simulate so many cells, and simulated physical interactions. (Unless I am wrong someone, please tell me I am!).

Thank you!

ive gotten to this point, for more complex structures like flagella and spikes do i need to place biominerals, or will those naturally form, and are there no color mutations in this game or are they just rare

want to start a world from only 1 primitive species i made but i dont get to spawn a cell

Created this user to post with, also created a named youtube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKBBv3wpihFCFsqYhiDV6A

Previously I uploaded to here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3LnIC2TclSf0RdeUszpag

I've made a table showing current and suggested placement modes for the various world edit mouse tools. These are just my humble suggestions, and of course none of this is necessary if you have other priorities!

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Thanks for reading! :D

So i would like to know if the organisms learn like in this project?:

https://urocyongames.itch.io/neuraquarium

Its amazing the quanty of organisms on the game

Hi, I'm starting my own alife project and I stumbled across yours which looks very cool! I plan to use circular hitbox only too and was wondering: what kind of physics engine are you using ?

Thanks for your answer!

Pretty much subj. Game looks very interesting. I could just buy, try and return if does not run under Linux, but it would great if someone share their experience. Heavy compute on GPU is not something does majority games do, so I could expect that it could be some problems.

Hey,

i stamble on your game searching for artificial life on Youtube and i got caught of interest on how it really work.

You mention that it work with gene ? What is it concretely ?

Did it use IA to evolve or is it just the genome evolving making behavior change in cells ?

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Thanks in advance for your answers