Be My Bird

August 17th, 2009 11 Comments »

1. Ranoka Says:
   August 17th, 2009 at 8:30 am

   I really like that, I got the bird to collect the flowers on it’s own, seems to get confused quite easily though. Needed to make adjustments while it’s doing the thing and not after otherwise it messes it up.

   Might have a go at implementing something like this myself, any tips on how to go about it / good articles to read? Might be fun to make a slightly more complex situation, maybe with a predator or competitor.

2. Andy Schatz Says:
   August 17th, 2009 at 8:33 am

   Doing a competitor is next on my list of things to do actually! It’s based on neural networks… there’s lots of good literature on the web, but be careful, much of it is overly math heavy.

3. Yerica Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pm

   Uhm, what are the controls?

4. Yerica Says:
   August 21st, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   Because I keep press the + and – buttons on my keyboard and nothing happens D8

5. Snares Penguin Says:
   September 11th, 2009 at 11:59 am

   Andy, why is this game soooooo hard????

6. Andy Schatz Says:
   September 11th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   To be honest, it was an experiment, not a finished product. In my opinion, it doesn’t really work that well, it’s not that fun, esp because of the neural network building stuff. Neural networks are usually intentionally too complex for a human to understand, so asking a human to build one doesn’t make sense.

   In any case, I built it as a way to take a break from Dinosauria and get my juices flowing again.

7. Snares Penguin Says:
   October 7th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

   yeah, your Neural Juices!!! lol Snares made a funny.

8. Sylverone Says:
   January 22nd, 2010 at 1:16 pm

   Actually, I’ve been quite enjoying this. I’m interested in neural nets, but I’m not a programmer yet, and I’m not ready to wade through the math. This is proving somewhat helpful for increasing my conceptual framework.

   Believe it or not, the other day I was actually looking for a game/toy like this that would let me build neural nets with click-and-drag. Yours is the only one I’ve found. Do you know of any others, or programs that might be fun to toy around with?

   Anyway, thanks a lot!

9. Andy Schatz Says:
   January 22nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm

   I don’t know of any others, though you might try taking a look at Democracy and Democracy 2. They are both driven by neural nets as well.

10. Sylverone Says:
    January 23rd, 2010 at 1:09 am

    Thanks, I’ll check those out.

11. Sylverone Says:
    January 24th, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Also, I’d like to point out a bug that can cause bad lag. I was curious, so I ventured to try and make a recursive neural net – that is, I connected one of my neurons to another neuron, which connected to a third, which connected back to the first. Well, apparently making loops is a no-no, because the game began to lag my browser when I entered training mode. I was forced to control-alt-delete and force-close the browser.

    Also, what is that “asd” node/message that pops up at the beginning sometimes?

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