Jake Lodwick’s Blog

I revisited Sumas and Nubas today. Mostly I researched single-celled organisms, though I made some changes to the code as well:

• New color scheme: blue background (“water”), green nubas (“chloroplasts”), tan sumas.
• Elements are drawn more realistically: no black borders, and sumas are ellipses instead of squares.
• When a suma dies, it fades away instead of instantly vanishing.
• Nubas are 1/4 the size, instead of roughly the same size as the sumas, who eat them.

Future goals:

• Add collision detection, so two sumas cannot occupy the same space.
• Refine suma locomotion, so they have to swim toward their food instead of starting and stopping on a dime / instantly changing direction.
• Sumas should asexually reproduce when they’ve eaten enough food, instead of “playing” (spinning in a circle).
• Allow sumas to ‘team up’ into multicellular organisms.