Comments on: Asymptote’s Zombie Infection Simulator — Version 2.0

By: Nexgen545 also nenkar

Nexgen545 also nenkar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:08:31 +0000

hey um im not good with programing or anything but i think i might know a way to get rid of the south-moving gremlin you know how civis follow fighters just make fighters able to kill zombs more efectivly and a higher chance to become fighters then civis will follow the fighters and fighters dont go down screen

By: Darth

Darth — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:52:54 +0000

If I may make a recommendation, I feel that a button to spawn panicking humans and fighter humans would be a nice edition, as I’ve often found myself resetting the simulation trying to get a bunch of a panicky people, a fighter or two but no zombies.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:27:12 +0000

Not knowing that a zombie-model already exists in NetLogo, I programmed one myself. Although my approach is different to yours, you might be interested.

You can find my model here:
http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0250890/netlogo/

Would be glad to know what you think of it.

By: Addefemumough

Addefemumough — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:32:56 +0000

Great post / Will come back again soon!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:35:25 +0000

you should make a 3.0,but add features,like have you played zombie 4? or the incredible zombie machine,sorry i am working on a flash game with a big simulator but im usin flash 8 so.. yah
any way play zombie 4 and try using their…engine..

By: asymptote

asymptote — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:59:04 +0000

Yeah, I figured that the problem probably had something to do with the random-number generator. I did try to do a kind of double-randomization, but that didn’t help.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:50:25 +0000

The downwards movement has to do with the flocking behaviour, there seems to be something wrong with the mean heading command – maybe the pseudo-random number generator is a bit less than random. Perhaps world wrap around should be disabled – but it caused a pileup when I tried it after some editing.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:47:07 +0000

The downwards movement has to do with the flocking behaviour, there seems to be something wrong with the mean heading command – maybe the pseudo-random number generator is a bit less than random.

By: Genghis Philip

Genghis Philip — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:12:21 +0000

Nicely done, nicely done.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:36 +0000

nice work!

By: asymptote

asymptote — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:52:11 +0000

I’ll do what I can, but being only a part-time computer geek, I’m not sure that I’ve got the skill to convert it to an .exe.

I elected not to make the zombies slower than the humans, since the “zombie virus” I’ve always imagined is more like rabies than the viruses you see in the movies: It doesn’t make people shambling idiots, just paranoid and very aggressive.

As for the zombie targeting system, it’s very simple: NetLogo comes pre-built with a method called “towards,” which just returns the angle towards any particular agent. What the zombies do is pick a random human within (I think) a 5-square radius and set their heading (using the “towards” function) to that of that chosen human.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:01:56 +0000

hey, do you think it would be possible to make it into an .exe? otherwise great work. Do the are the zombies slower than the humans? How does the zombie targeting system work?