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[Spreggo]

Okay people, here is the secret project I've been working on:

CultureSim !!

UPDATE 2-6-11:
I have rehosted this project at request, but it is no longer being developed or supported.

UPDATE 3-1-10:
Fixed lockup when choosing ideas.
Fixed tool-tips running off of stage.
Tool-tips now scroll by mouse click.
Added mountains and respective movement.
Battles are now recorded into history. Press shift and mouse over the tiles to view their history.
Added mechanism for off-shoot cultures to adopt their own color.
Made the map a little more rough.
More idea definitions.
Various small fixes.

Its a non-player toy that grows human population and handles the spread of cultural ideas.

There is history keeping, but it isn't yet fully implemented:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Winter, 116 :

The people have passed on their history records to the next generation.

Spring, 142 :

   The deity Sorcchagtuth has become Sorcteagtugi.

   Sorcteagtugi is associated with Socialism, Mercantilism, Materialism, Pragmatism, Natural Law, and Engineering.

    Sorcteagtugi takes the form of coins.

Summer, 142 :

The people have passed on their history records to the next generation.

Spring, 166 :

The people have passed on their history records to the next generation.

Summer, 167 :

   The deity Sotrteagtuth has become Sorcteagtuth.

   Sorcteagtuth is associated with Socialism, Mercantilism, Materialism, Pragmatism, Natural Law, and Mathematics.

    Sorcteagtuth takes the form of coins.

The link is a bit more detailed:
http://spreggo.com/prototypes/culturesim/Culture.html
The old link is long dead. Try this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B07KumhFJvwyN1BmQjFDSHN5NzQ
Nope, try this: http://www.mediafire.com/download/2adc523ttgu9z50/Culture_Sim.zip
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Some issues:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It gets stuck in a loop somewhere. If you wait it will keep going, but its kind of irritating when it happens a bunch of times in a row.
Atheist cultures still generate deities....
Still working on all the idea definitions...
Sometimes the human species fails totally. This is intentional, but I should make the game restart itself or something so you don't have to reload it.

Okay - I'm looking forward to suggestions and complaints.

[tasteful]

marry me

[Armok]

Nice.

Reminds me of Sim Earth.

[Nadaka]

interesting...

This is similar to a big part of the Archipelago project that I am still planned to get started on, if I can ever finish 1 or more of my other projects first. Though Archipelago will have more pirates and cannibals.

[MrWiggles]

huh, neat. I was pondering over a population and culture simulation engine for a Meme 4 X game.

[Aqizzar]

Neat little population movement simulator.  I do have two nitpicks of the engine though - the popup info appears inside the window, so markers close to the edges get their info hidden, and there should be a description for populations who don't worship anything instead of being left blank.

[Helmaroc]

Very nice! Like Armok said, reminds of Sim Earth.

[timmeh]

Very interesting to watch for a while... had three major continents, and each ended up being almost entirely owned by it's own faction, until a new one (ironically with a black background...) came through and started taking over some of the beaches, before almost all of them catching the plague and spreading it to nearly the entire world, cept some obscure little civilization off in one of the bottom corners of the world

[winner]

To me it seemed like you ran the continent smoothing one step too long and the game seems biased towards maritime culture. It's really fun to watch them colonize.

[Servant Corps]

I was going to suggest introducing religious schisms, until I saw the Blue Civilization (following the Anti-Religious Civilization) losing territory to the Orange Civilization (following the exact same Anti-Religious Religion). I'm serious. These people believe in exactly the same tenants and everything,  only Blue believes in the "god" Loti while Organe believes in the "god" Friethu.

I predict many a bloody war, before they both assimilate.

EDIT: Eh, the Orange Civilization was cowards and ran to the nearest island, where they reverted to neutrality. The Blue Civilization in the process of reconquering the Orange Civilization's territory.

EDIT2: I just realized that territory conquered by Civilization may still produce population, even if there are no civilizations. So, the remnants of the Organe Civilization that was not conquered by the Blue Civilization produced a ship unit, that colonized another island (nope, they colonized the exact same island, but with some distance from the Blues). This second city still follows the Orange Civilization. Since they are far away, they won't assimilate, and so the schismatics will live another day.

EDIT3: The Organe Civilization decided they had enough of the name "Friethu", and renamed their god to be "Math". I just checked what "Math" and "Loti" looked like...and they look like luxury goods. Stupid schismatics. Blue Civilization is dying from the plague and the Yellow Pacifist hordes, while Orange Civilization just sitting there in its colony, chilling.

EDIT4: The Orange Civilization had enough of the color Orange. They're now the Purple Civilization. This is awesome.

EDIT5: Purple have launched a reconquestia and have began taking territory from the Blues. The Blues are basically falling apart, as the Yellows seize more and more of their land. The Blues' days are numbered. ...Yet, the Purple's own "home city" is destroyed, possibly via plague.

EDIT6: The Purples have their own extensive colonial empire, but now they have to deal with a new threat: The Teals, who believe in the "god" Enini, in and exactly the same beliefs as the Purples and the Blues. 

EDIT7: OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! The Purples and the Blues now follow the exact same god, Mahei.

EDIT8: And now there is a new religious schism within both the Purples and the Blues, between the followers of Mahei (who look like luxury goods), and the followers of Friethu (who look like integers). You may remember that the schism was originally between Loti and Friethu ...so they're now back at the begining of the schism; nothing changed! Yellow is now a superpower though, so this entire dispute seem irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Religion is on the march, while atheism argues over how many angels can dance on needles.

I'm getting tired of this, and I got other homework, so I'll stop updating this post, but I got one question for Spreggo: How does religious schisms get created?

EDIT9: One last update. The Mahei religion is dead, everyone follows Frehi now. Also, the Teal civilization has been annexed by the Purples, and now follows Frehi too. The Great Schism is finally over.

[winner]

Can I see how this cool thing works? Your blog doesn't say and the civilizations seem more coherent than I would expect from chance.

[Armok]

After reading SCs post, i'm realy impresed with this app. It sounds like one of the morst realistic somulations I have ever seen of anything!

[Mephansteras]

I need to check this out. Sounds vaugely like a country simulator a wrote years ago. It kept track of rulers and ethnic groups, though, instead of culture, but you still had nations rising and falling and schisms happening within larger nations and so on.

[Servant Corps]

I need to check this out. Sounds vaugely like a country simulator a wrote years ago. It kept track of rulers and ethnic groups, though, instead of culture, but you still had nations rising and falling and schisms happening within larger nations and so on.

Do you still have it? It's not a cultural simulation, true, but I'm more of a "political sim" type of guy.

[Mephansteras]

Sadly, no, I lost that code a long time ago. It was actually in BASIC, of all things.

I am planning on making a more advanced version of it at some point, though. Probably as a test bed for some new AI code that I've been planning.