Comments on: Zombie Infection Simulator

By: What the Internet Likes « The Life of an English Major

What the Internet Likes « The Life of an English Major — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:34:43 +0000

[...] no. No. The rest of my science posts languish in the bottom of the bargain bin, while, by far, my Zombie Simulator-related posts are the proud runners up, having garnered 10,466 [...]

By: asymptote

asymptote — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:10:23 +0000

See, if I’d thought of that beforehand, I wouldn’t have had to fix anything…damn.

Yeah. That’s Richard. He cleans my gutters, so I keep him around

By: THERE ARE SO MANY COINCIDENCES :D

THERE ARE SO MANY COINCIDENCES :D — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:49:10 +0000

with your downwards migration problem, did you know that like 70% of all animals have a tendancy to migrate south?
And to the one person who sometimes doesn’t get infected? He/She is the one who is immune i love a good coincidence

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:22:56 +0000

This alot of fun. But the fighters seem a bit, eh.. how do I word this… Non fighters. They are more of a leader than a fighter. But they are still pretty cool. I love it when I saw 20 panicked, 8 fighters, and 4 norms in a tiny little room. It was hilarious. But other than that realy annoying downwards migration, very impressive social dynamics. Zombies should be hard to kill, and fighters hard to kill, while panicked and norms are average.

By: asymptote

asymptote — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:31:29 +0000

That, my friend, is an EXCELLENT idea! I think I could probably stick in some code to adjust a few key probabilities without much trouble and let the agent behavior evolve.

You may just have made my day!

By: Joseph G. Mitzen

Joseph G. Mitzen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:10:05 +0000

That sounds like a challenge for genetic algorithms…

By: asymptote

asymptote — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:24:19 +0000

Yeah…the simulator’s always had some balance issues. In the later versions, the zombies all get killed absurdly fast. I haven’t really hit a good balance yet.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:37 +0000

I think it’s great and all, but every time a pack of humans and a couple fighters meet up with even one zombie, they all die.. Come on, they can’t defend off ONE zombie?

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:44:21 +0000

its awesome.

By: Tucker

Tucker — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:24:27 +0000

You should add a white “hero character” but other than that it’s good

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:13:54 +0000

Also: people exiting from the south reappear in the north. about 200 or so lead by fighters retreated to ‘helms’ and everyone is running! I like it very much! thanks for making this.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:11:44 +0000

Wow, I tried it with 1000 people and I saw a fighter, leading I think about a dozen or more citizens, heading north west toward what I call ‘Helm’s Deep’

Wickidy cool!

By: asymptote

asymptote — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:25:20 +0000

That’s a good point, but every time I’ve tried to incorporate walls into the simulator, they haven’t behaved properly. For some reason, the people kept getting stuck to them. That’s why I didn’t include them, and kept the boundaries wrap-around.

By: Dak Rockson

Dak Rockson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:41:31 +0000

I meant like the sides of the screen,not actual walls.

By: Dak Rockson

Dak Rockson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:40:47 +0000

HEy I dont want to be one of those pessimists, but I love the zombie infection games, and tthis one is great, but the only thing I dont like about it, is that when people hit a wall, they come out the opposite wall, which I find takes away from the game, say if the zombies are all on one side, and the humans are on the other, they are just to easy to get to, and I find that frusterating. I am voicing my opinion, but I am probably gonna get flamed

By: asymptote

asymptote — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:35:10 +0000

It might have been. Being little more than a hobbyist, I didn’t do any kind of bug-hunting whatsoever, except when it came to really obvious bugs.

By: legoless

legoless — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:59:34 +0000

Wow, awesome.
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When I tried it the first time with only 50 people, everyone was turned into a zombie except one normal human who remained standing in the same spot. No zombie came after it. Was that a bug?

By: asymptote

asymptote — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:34:15 +0000

It’s out now, actually. You can run it (or download it) here:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/community/Zombie_Infection_2

By: harrison

harrison — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:29:27 +0000

when is it going to be out it looks so awsome!!!!!!!!

By: asymptote

asymptote — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:40:29 +0000

You can find it right here:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/community/Zombie_Infection_2

I think you have to have Java installed for the applet to run.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:39:24 +0000

is it possible to get it yet. this looks really fun and i want to play it.

By: asymptote

asymptote — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:05:17 +0000

Thanks for the comment!

What I’ve observed is that, generally, the survivors clump for a while, but just before “extinction,” they tend to lose all organization and get driven madly in all directions, since, the way I programmed it, “panicked” people jiggle about randomly at high speed.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:42:28 +0000

hey, nice work. the thing that fascinated me the most in the original zombie game was the effect of the grouping of the zombies, kinda like a hive, I am legend style. do the survivors actually clump together or is that just by chance on that test? and the thing that pissed me off with the original one was that it was too small and it wasn’t an application that I could put on my computer. good luck!

By: asymptote

asymptote — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:36:46 +0000

Thanks very much! I haven’t really been working on the simulator for the last week or so, but I’m hoping to get around to finishing the revisions and debugging sometime in the near future. Be sure to check back, because eventually I hope to make this available for download or Internet use, as I did with my heart simulation.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:23:34 +0000

that is so cool, I saw the other zombie simulation and was fascinated with it for a while, but i became quickly bored with the lack of the formation of any kind of society. I’ve been praying that somebody would create something like this and it seems that day has come. Can’t wait to see the finished product, good luck with your work!