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nematode farm — a web game where the opponent AI is an actual simulation of the nervous system of C. elegans

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  1. gpl
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    C. elegans is a simple enough organism that its entire nervous system can be accurately simulated, for example here. Using that fact, someone has made a simple worm herding game where the worm AI...

    C. elegans is a simple enough organism that its entire nervous system can be accurately simulated, for example here. Using that fact, someone has made a simple worm herding game where the worm AI is a biologically accurate simulation of the C. elegans worm nervous system. Github here for more details.

    11 votes
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    cfabbro
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    (since I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing until I read that)

    Objective

    Assuming the role of the mighty Teal Worm, your objective as a player is to push all the wandering red and blue worms into their respective pens before the timer runs down.

    Compete with your friends! Compete with yourself! Just chill out and watch the damn worms! It's all up to you.

    (since I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing until I read that)

    8 votes
    1. RheingoldRiver
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      wow that control scheme is incredibly difficult to intuit (at least for me)

      wow that control scheme is incredibly difficult to intuit (at least for me)

      6 votes
  3. chocobean
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    Needs keyboard to play :/ Tomorrow then!

    Needs keyboard to play :/

    Tomorrow then!

    3 votes
  4. guf
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    This was kinda fun to play. I think it would be a nice project to build a similar game (pushing worms or other organism into their pens) but with multiplayer.

    This was kinda fun to play. I think it would be a nice project to build a similar game (pushing worms or other organism into their pens) but with multiplayer.