vitineth / krit

A simulation of pixel life, inspired by Conway's Game of Life

Krit

Meet Wile or 4c17c1a8-2e31-4c67-8a5e-e7cbbcbb17e6. He is a male Krit that was produced during a run of the program on 17.10.09. However, that is not the full details of Wile as a creature:

Key	Value
Id	Wile (4c17c1a8-2e31-4c67-8a5e-e7cbbcbb17e6)
Location	(66, 52)
Origin	(65, 53)
Health	14.65625
Initial Health	26.65625
Decay Rate	2.0 per 5 updates
Sex	MALE
Color	(44, 125, 15)
Is Aggressive	false
Tribe	748f3f5b-932f-4f7c-aa5e-f7aa8b09fdac(74, 51)
Has Mated	748f3f5b-932f-4f7c-aa5e-f7aa8b09fdac(74, 51)
Mate
Is Pregnant	false
Term
Children
Parents	6743b3e8-5d93-4f91-a8e0-6817726c05ff / 6743b3e8-5d93-4f91-a8e0-6817726c05ff
Children Count	0
Children IDs
Genetic Count	0
Genetic IDs
Separation Turns	30
Proximity Turns	0
Updates	30

But let's take a step back and look at what a Krit actually is.

What is a Krit　

A krit is just a creature that I've develoepd which 'lives' and moves around the screen. They obey a set of rules that dictate how they act and move which will be discussed later on.

What inspired this program

After seeing a friend produce a version of the game of life, I thought I'd have a go at developing a type of that with many more rules which would let it simulate life in some way

What rules do Krits follow

Krits exist on a 100x100 grid and follow the basic set of rules:

1. Only one Krit can occupy one tile at a time.
2. Krits can only move within a 1 square radius (x and y offset between -1 and 1).
3. A Krits health will decay at a constant rate which will be determined at its birth
4. At each update, each expressed genetic trait will receive an update which can edit the Krits details and each unexpressed trait will have its triggers ran
5. If a Krit is within 5 of a member of another tribe for 3 or more turns, it will become aggressive. If it is separated (greater than 5 away) from another tribe for 3 turns it will become passive
6. When a Krit is aggressive, it will identify the closest member of another tribe and move towards it. If it is next to it, it will attempt to strike for between 1 and 4 damage with ~80% chance of hitting.
7. If the creature is not aggressive, it will try to move towards the averaged center of the tribe or pick a random x and y offset between -1 and 1 with a chance of 30%.
8. Pregnancy will take 9 updates to complete.
9. A female krit can have between 1 and 3 children
10. A female krit has a ~0.8% chance of losing a child per update during pregnancy
11. A child should be placed within a 1 block radius of the parent and should be lost if a space is not available.
12. A child krit should determine its new health by averaging the parents values with a jitter of between -4 and 4 (including decimals).
13. A child krit should determine its new decay rate by averaging the parents with jitter of -0.2 to 0.2 for the decay rate and -3 to 3 for its frequency.
14. A child krit should have a randomly assigned sex
15. A child krit should take the average of the parents colours with a jitter of -20 to 20 for each of the r g and b values.
16. A child krit should have a minimum decay rate of 0.2/2 (set if the values are set below 0)
17. A child should take all dominant genes of the parents
18. A child should take all recessive genes which exist on both the parents
19. A child should take the tribe of the mother
20. A krit has ~100% chance of mating with its mate when adjacent to each other
21. A krit has ~60% chance of mating with a member of its own tribe if it does not have a Mate
22. A krit has a ~40% chance of mating with a member of another tribe if it does not have a mate
23. If a krit does not have a mate and mates with another krit, that krit will become its mate 　

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