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[m3xican]

Hi folks,
this is my current indie project, I'm working on it with 2 friends and I'm proud to announce you:



Evolution War is a turn based strategy game with strong RPG overtones. The game is set in a virtual universe in which AI bots have evolved to become independent beings in cyberspace. The bots fight for dominance in their environment to conquer their own cyber arenas and struggle to survive.

You can create your own bots, make them grow and evolve by adding new components and by upgrading and enhancing existing traits allowing for deep customization in true RPG style. Once your bot is strong enough it is ready to take on the universe in a campaign to conquer every planet in cyberspace!

The main feature of Evolution War is the evolution of the AI bots controlled by the CPU. They are procedurally generated and constantly changing, improving and evolving to continuously provide a new and exciting challenge for players as the game progresses.
The evolution of the bots will be controlled by genetic programming and other advanced AI techniques to provide a unique and individual gaming experience for each player.

Evolution War is a free game and initially will be released for Linux and Windows. If interest is shown from other OS communities then other porting options may be taken into consideration.

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[J.G. Martins]

Hey, that sounds interesting!

I wonder how not having direct control over AI behaviour will be... especially if somehow the GA can't find some decent solution!

Keep us posted!

[m3xican]

Thanks J.G. Martins,

The player keeps the full control on his bots during the game, the GA evolves just the CPU-controlled bots.

Anyway, more will come soon

[Dacke]

Sounds very interesting, indeed. But also very ambitious. Are you sure it's not insanely overambitious?

I'm not sure Announcements is the best place for this, seeing how far into the future the completed game is. Perhaps you would benefit from more interesting feedback by writing in the Devlog forum or perhaps in the Feedback forum? (But I have no idea what Announcements is supposed to be for to begin with, so never mind me )

[m3xican]

Sounds very interesting, indeed. But also very ambitious. Are you sure it's not insanely overambitious?

It's ambitious indeed
But we spent several months working on the base technology before to be sure the game can become reality, as I wrote in my last dev-log post.

I'm not sure Announcements is the best place for this, seeing how far into the future the completed game is. Perhaps you would benefit from more interesting feedback by writing in the Devlog forum or perhaps in the Feedback forum? (But I have no idea what Announcements is supposed to be for to begin with, so never mind me )

I'm not sure too, the Rules thread didn't help me, so I went for this section cause it looked the more appropriate, but if I'm wrong could some mod move the thread?

[Dacke]

I actually read that devlog post and I really hope you can pull it off. But even with an AI in place it will be a huge challenge to get things to evolve properly and make sure the player can relate to what's going on. But, hey, I'm rooting for you!

I really don't think it's "wrong" to post here. Just that you'll have a better chance at getting some real feedback elsewhere. But it all depends on what you are looking for by posting here

[m3xican]

I actually read that devlog post and I really hope you can pull it off. But even with an AI in place it will be a huge challenge to get things to evolve properly and make sure the player can relate to what's going on. But, hey, I'm rooting for you!

We really hope the same, well, we'll see
I've just read your "Conway’s Game of Bigotry" thread, now I know why you're interested in EW, basically it's like a game of life with angry bots

I really don't think it's "wrong" to post here. Just that you'll have a better chance at getting some real feedback elsewhere. But it all depends on what you are looking for by posting here

Now I see your point, but my idea is that when posting a "mere" announce like this, people can't give you a real feedback, they can only be interested or not, and it's not their fault of course, it's just they don't have enough "data" to make a feedback.
But I'm definitely going to post next important updates in the other sections you suggested.

BTW, thanks for the support