Evolution - Learning Creatures 4+
Simulate learning creatures
Keiwan Donyagard
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- £1.99
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Description
Use joints, bones and muscles to build creatures that are only limited by your imagination. Watch how the combination of neural networks and an evolutionary algorithm can enable your creatures to learn and improve at their given tasks all on their own.
The tasks include running, jumping, climbing and flying. Can you design the ultimate creature that is good at all of the tasks?
The latest update allows you to easily share your simulation saves and creature designs with your friends.
Note that this is more of a simulation than a game. There are no real objectives. But there is a lot to learn if you are interested in the basics of machine learning and neural networks. You can even look at the source code if you want.
There is also a Mac & PC version available for download and a browser version for you to try out on the main project website (keiwan.itch.io/evolution).
What’s New
Version 3.1.0
- Added wings and a flying task
- Define a fitness penalty if certain joints touch the ground
- Assign IDs to muscles that should expand and contract at the same time
- Exiting a simulation will now load its creature design into the editor
- Bug fixes
- Stability improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Brilliantly clever and educational but an issue:
I love this game, it’s a great way to lean AI machine learning, but when i create a new ‘creature’, sometimes when on the ‘running’ option, the max horizontal distance is jot recorded properly, for example my creature will easily hit 90 metres every iteration, but for some reason the horizontal distance from start’ stat is still stuck on 60 metres when it should be 90. Not sure what’s causing this, maybe that distance is calculated based on an average of all iterations??? But still, it should accurately show the max distance of the best performing iteration, not the average.
Good game and suggestions
Very fun to watch your marvellous creations flail about and slowly learn how to walk.
One suggestion is that you could run the app in the background (unless it’s already a feature and I don’t know about it) so you don’t have to watch your creature evolve for hours at a time. Instead you can play another app or something while you wait for it to progress.
Good but...
This game is a very addictive game and it always teaches me something new but I have tried almost everything in the game a so I think think that the game should have different features like a feature were you can make sea animals and sky animals this could make the game much more unpredictable adding excitement.
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Information
- Provider
- Keiwan Donyagard
- Size
- 58.2 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 Keiwan Donyagard
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.