Wolfling run: “a method of playing the Creatures games in which the players do not intervene in the lives of their norns.” Creatures wiki.

Even though I’ve had a functional breeding system in Gastropoda for a while, it still isn’t actually done. Most common snails do not give birth to live young…and definitely not to one live young. Initially it was good to just have the snails pop out one live baby snail so that I could properly observe and test the genetics and other attributes generated for the newborn. Now, however, with that being well on track, it is time to implement…egg laying.

This post originally started out like this:

I’ve made a few more shell patterns for the snails!

I then started to descibe how the basic genetics work in the simulation (limited to pattern color). While doing so, I began to realize that it is all wrong. I went back and ripped apart some of the breeding system to get it to a slightly more realistic state. Needless to say it’s still not really correct, but at least it’s a bit closer to what could be some sort of reality. Now I have to go back and clean everything up/rewrite it.

The first commit auto-tweeted from the @gastropoda_ twitter account yesterday was actually the last commit dedicated to the Laravel port reimplementation:

I’m still on the Laravel migration. It’s going pretty well, except for last night. Last night I was porting racing.