Ok, so colonies are setup. They spawn pioneers and you can control some options from the GUI (took a while and had to switch from C# to Javascript, neither of which we’ve used before).

Right now the pioneers just set off in random directions. They travel for a set amount of time and at a set speed. Then when they time out, they attempt to place a new colony. If the colony is too near another colony, they simply dont place the new one.

Next task is to add the colony sizing (colonies grow as resources allow) and the integration of pioneers such that if a pioneer cannot place a colony because of its proximity to a new one, the pioneer simply integrates back into the existing colony, adding to its population. Once we get that up and running and fix up a few UI issues so that there’s a maximum population and colony cap, we’ll put up a webplayer version. Never tried that before either

Fun!

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