Poll: Natural selection/ evolution games

[Mr Companion]

So I have being playing this game called Darwain pond that I really enjoy, where you create (or sometimes only watch) a virtual ecosystem whereupon creatures physiscal traits transfer to their young until there is inevitably one near omnipotent race of super basterds that eat all the local recorces until all other life dies out.
In any case I have really being trying hard to look for another good eco sim game.

PS: If you say Spore you are an absolute idiot.

 

[mrfusspot]

What's wrong with Spore? Its a video game with evolution as a big theme? Sure, its not too great, but it still fits the criteria.

EVO: Search for Eden (SNES) and Seventh Cross: Evolution(DC) are two good ones I can think of.

 

[Marter]

SimLife may be something that interests you. It's quite old now, being made around 1994 I believe, but it may have the element that you are looking for.

 

[GloatingSwine]

What's wrong with Spore? Its a video game with evolution as a big theme? Sure, its not too great, but it still fits the criteria.

It's nothing like evolution by natural selection?

Darwin Pond is about the only game that is. There's Conway's Life game, but that's based on it's own abstract rules, and is more of a toy than a game.

 

[PurpleSky]

There is a war3 map called bug evolution.

Don't know if it suits your needs though.The map is pretty awesome,you make your bug colony,evolve,and eventually go battle.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

But Spore is a game that has evolution in it does it not? Or does raising a creature from fetus to full-grown adult not count as evolution in your book.

 

[Jandau]

But Spore is a game that has evolution in it does it not? Or does raising a creature from fetus to full-grown adult not count as evolution in your book.

Raising a creature is raising a creature. It has nothing to do with evolution.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

But Spore is a game that has evolution in it does it not? Or does raising a creature from fetus to full-grown adult not count as evolution in your book.

Certainly doesn't count as a good game though.

Spore had amazing potential and it was pissed away by committee decisions to turn it into a piddling minigame collection.

 

[Ranorak]

Spore has as much in common with actual evolution as I have in common with Jimmy Hendrix.

No sane scientist is going to tell you that evolution can make your offspring spawn with 4 new legs and a whole different body shape.

 

[Mr Companion]

Spore has as much in common with actual evolution as I have in common with Jimmy Hendrix.

No sane scientist is going to tell you that evolution can make your offspring spawn with 4 new legs and a whole different body shape.

I am glad some people understand what I am getting at. Slapping things onto a creature in order for it to kill things better is not even slightly evolution. So a point to you, I am glad to say.

 

[Crimson_Dragoon]

Spore is intelligent design, not evolution and natural selection. It involves a higher being (the player) directly changing the species over time, as opposed to the random addition of traits that may spread throughout a population if they increase fitness.

Mind you, it lead to a pretty fun creature creation, so I don't fault Spore for going that route. I was, however, not pleased with how much they pushed that "this is evolution," when any biologist could tell you its not.

As for actual evolution games, I'm afraid I can't think of any off the top of my head.