- [screwlisp proposes kittens](../..)
# Back of envelope game logic
Having [drafted counting sensors](../../lispgames/plant-sensors) I think we can just finish up game logic with a typecase basically. I have a little bit of time after planning for [Kent Pitman's interview tomorrow](../../show/urgent-kent-pitman-interview) (where he will read an unpublished essay live and share finding out about Ted Nelson /after/ writing his own Cross Referencing Editor Facility in England).

Here is my back-of-the-envelope draft of the game mechanic to implement.

## Basic mechanic

1. Call action on grid
2. randomly choose an entity from the grid's entityfile
3. Update that entity
- Plant has some chance to propagate
- - Checks sensors for plants
- - Propagates away from plants
- Insect tries to eat plants
- - Checks sensors for plants
- - spawns = moves towards plants
- - Eats a plant iff plant
- - - (Or has some probability of dying)
- Bird needs to eat and sleep
- - if hungry > tired
- - - tries to eat an insect iff insect
- - - - else chance of dying
- - - spawns ('moves' towards insects)
- - - low chance /not/ to remove the current position
- - - - i.e. the bird who moved away left an egg=new bird
- - else
- - - tries to sleep iff plant
- - - - else chance of dying
- - - else spawns (moves) towards plant
- - - - no chance of leaving an egg iff -plant

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.someodd.zip. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.