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.
This interests me
