Artificial Life

Was an awesome app before iOS 7 and it is even better now                 Great updated app

I am horrible at it but its still fun                 Super cool

Fun to play with a true game of chance and skill Needs 1 Ability to delete old protozoa files 2 Family line tracing for breeding Go to nearest relative after death in Sandbox so that breeding has a purpose 3 Breeding preference for similar colors a consensual breeding both protozoa must want to breed in order to produce offspring so that genome stability exists 4 Gravity sun and speed sliders rather than a staggered slider              Awesome but needs more features

Needs more tradeoffs Reproduction is free and eating or attacking the weak leads to immortality This causes degenerate strategies Also there is no way to gain energy from the sun so populations quikly leave it Overall this is a good start but it needs more balance to stay interesting Update survival mode adds a lot of fun The fact that youre playing just one critter and scored only on lifetime makes reproduction a waste of time Id love to see a mode where youre scored on how many descendants you have when you die              Okay

Amazing                 Just get it

No matter what I change my chromosomes to they always avoid nearest organism and then die     Impossible

It clearly demonstrates evolution heredity and natural selection Its fascinating gorgeous fun and addictive One of my favorite apps out there                 In LOVE with this app

This is a great start but take all of these reviews seriously I love trying to play this simulation app but my fun is almost always stifled buy a glitch for instance all the Protozoa in sandbox mode stop moving suddenly and the whole Petrie dish dies These issues tempt me to ask for a refund 1 Fix glitches 2 Make it possible to import Protozoa into sandbox mode from your library and spawn them with a tap 3 Make the programming more clear For instance my condition 1 is true so why isnt my Protozoa doing that instead of rule 9 which may also be true but is less important           Keep the updates coming

Pretty awesome Those less patient of you may find it boring but I love it To the designers more variables would be nice Good app Buy it              App

Its a great implementation but really frustrating to lose your creations to outer darkness as I like to call it I want to make a super predator but it goes byebye Please fix and it will get 5 stars as it will deserve           Good but

A solid life simulator                 Pretty good

This is quite a good app However I would like it if there was some kind of Species Survival mode What I mean by this is that you try to make a species dominant instead of just one Protozoa This way herding would actually become useful since currently everyone youre herding with usually gets the food first I do love the simplicity though and the fact that it is biologically correct alone is enough to get it five stars Keep up the good work Life team                 Excellent app have some suggestions

I was expecting more Lame     Waste of money

I just wish it had a way of keeping track of offspring since evolutionary fitness is based on the number of viable offspring It would be cool to see more diverse evolution toomaybe in a sequel But its amazing Beyond my expectations I can experiment with life and explore evolution even if I dont agree with it Kudos yall                 Great fun for bio majors

This app is awesome The one thing I cant figure out is how to make a family                 Its nice

Great potential but half the time in survival my chromosome just sits there literally not doing anything        Needs work

Very good app But I have noticed something very interesting the creatures I edit never survive as long as the creatures Ive left alone even if the instructions I give them seem fullproof Just goes to show the power of evolution I guess And I have a suggestion I think it would be cool if another source of nutrition could be found like water you could have little lakes that look like the hiding spots but blue or maybe trees that would orbit the sun and drop food at changeable intervals Anything to add more variables and variance in the behavior that could arise But either way this is a great app very good job                 Excellent

Fun to watch your protazoa evolve should make more stages of evolution              Good game

Sandbox simulation just crashes the game              Greatbut a little buggy

Worst game I every played You really dont do anything but watch dots move I know its only a dollar but I wish I had it back Lesson learned Dont bother getting unless you need help sleeping     Worst game

No matter what i do the population is always at a minimum The population is not self sustaining and thus nothing can happen The population dont evolve they just change Its a good idea but i think it needs more The creator should read the book the smart swarm The math this book talks about could be used to make a real colony           Grate idea but falls short

What you need in an update is to be able to select the things in a family like how many generations and also a gene like if the nearest hiding spot is xxx units away and the nearest protazoa is xxx units away then find a mate ect I also think the tail is like power like Ill see one with a tail get attacked a couple of times but go on and live while ones with no tail die Also the tail gets longer for howmany things its eatenkilled              And

I love this game for its cleverness originality and complexity Theres just one feature I think its missing I love creating my own Protozoa in survival but im more interested in the survival of my traits rather than my individual Since we can save the traits can we use that set in the sandbox to modify specific Protozoa Right now if I want to inject my personalized guy I have to change all the traits of some protozoa individually and when he dies I have to do it again with another Instead Id like to just load my saved settings in a guy or create a new one spontaneously Or maybe do what someone else said and as long as a descendant in survival mode survives the game continues Thats more what life is about right              Almost five stars

Exceptional Great for evolutionary studies One of the top apps Ive purchased kudos guys                 Brilliant

Great app Like others however I would suggest some way to keep track of lineages also maybe manipulate what determines what traits protozoa look for in a mate other than being the closest one Perhaps a way to tag and then follow a specific protozoa and its progeny Whatever you can add will be happily accepted designers clearly did a brilliant job and will surely be thinking of things I cant on the spur of the moment If you are in doubt buy this app Really                 Agree kudos

I love this gametoy The survival mode is totally a game you make some rules for your creature and see how long it survives against creatures with randomized rules The simulation mode is like having an aquarium on your iphone you watch hundreds of creatures with randomized rules look for food run from predators kill weaklings mate and impart half of their rulesbinto the offspring Whereas the survival mode seems to be more of testing your ideas of what would be a good evolutionary strategy the simulation is more of taking an interest in the individual creatures or schools of relatives and tapping on them to see what they are doing right I like to play simulation mode and tap on a random creature to just watch it swim around for a while Its intersting to me that the rules or chromosomes can survive for so long even if they dont seem efficient This is one of those apps that you enjoy so much that you begin to come up with new features that would make it even more fun its inspirational Read the other reviews to see some great ways to make the app even more interesting but have no doubt that its worth the dollar Ive been wanting a game like this where I can easily create programs for digital creatures and watch them succeed or fail This is by far the closest thing Ive found I hope Artificial Life becomes its own genre of genetic strategy                 Test your rules in an evolving ecosystem

I absolutely enjoy running simulations with this whilst I do things like homework Setting rules that determine the social habitat based on countless options and the order in which your instructions are put to play tweak so many outcomes of behavior that is amusing to watch I would like a little more interaction with the world though and I have some good ideas that I will edit into this post later              Extraordinary

I was searching for a game like this since I switched to iPhonepreviously I was playing a more primitive version on WinCE called LoCE Minutes after purchasing the game I was actually regretting I got the game having difficulty to know where to start and the starting zoom level of the graphics didnt exactly look enticing Just before I deleted the game I stumbled on the instructions under help and it got better since In fact Im using it like a fish tank now destressing by checking out on how my protozoa was doing I think a tutorial would have helped for beginners and yes some of the suggestions given here in ther reviews are great like other stimuli and food sources I would also like to suggest that we could choose the color of our protozoa And the looks is there a significance in the length of the tail Does it make the protozoa swim faster Anyway great job guys keep up the good work have another update and I will not hesitate to recommend this game to more people Oh a free version too might help in the marketing              Deceptively Addictive but needs Tutorial

Since the new update when you select a Protozoa the screen shakes like crazy              Fix bugs

well its confusing        confusing

I wish I would not have spent 99cents on this game I love evolution and have enjoyed past life type games but this one doesnt make a lot of sense The variables lack and the Protozoa do not show any noticeable change when changing variables I do not recommend this game        Poor game

Yep it really is had it for a really long time and its mesmerizing to stare at                 Best simulator app

The new Petrie dish option is very good addition but now the Protozoa lost the ability to hide in the spotsthey jump in and out of the spots constantly instead of actually being hidden asleep              Good update but one glich

I loved this game but ever since the update sandbox mode wont work This is on a 3 rd gen iPod please fix                 Please fix

I got Artificial Life a LOOOOOOOONG time ago now LOL and I LOVE IT It rocks so much that I cant think of much else to say And I also reccommend this especially to any Spore the whole game the one for the computer fan like me and also to most other people It is SO worth 99 cents And Survival Mode is AWESOMEFUL I LOVE THIS APP Update OHMYGOSH MY OLDEST Oldest PROTOZOA WAS OVER 7000 But then his Avoid the Sun chromosome failed to kick in he mustve been asleep and he was burned to death XP Argh The most recent update said it fixed the incorrect score glitch in Survival mode but its still there I just had a game where my Protozoa was over 1000 years old when it was killed but it said my score was 860 Update OO LOL I saw two red tailless Protozoa circling a tailless yellow one in Survival Mode It looked like the Sun when youre zoomed way out with 2 equally sized hiding spots Forget what I said about the camera thing The only problem is that it gets in the way when Im moving the camera HOWEVER the update fixed the glitch that sometimes scrambled the chromosomes THANK YOU Now my Protozoa wont keep sleeping so long that they starve themselves to death Once again thanks A third update Thank you The new updates fixed the glitch where it was saying that the population was at the max but everyone was dead except the oldest Protozoa and occasionally 1 other Protozoa Now Im just gonna say a few random things about cool things Ive noticed while using this app Unfortunately they dont exist any more because I had to restore my iPhone to factory state due to some glitch that kept crashing it It was a glitch in the iPhone software not an app There is a certain color of Protozoa in my world that steals babies from their parents This is odd behavior but makes a bit of sense to me because the baby then follows the one who stole it thinking it is its parent It also is usually a baby of a similar purplishmagentaish color but not the same There is one color of Protozoa that travels in packs Usually probably about half the pack is its on kind and the rest is other colors After traveling a while some of the others will start trust the ones that are the same color and not ever leave the pack like some of the others Then suddenly without warning the cyan ones the ones that are all the sane color will kill and eat the trusting ones This behavior is very interesting as I have only seen it in the cyan Protozoa all of them do it and never do it to one another well almost never Its also interesting because that is a very smart way to get food The foolish ones stick to you then you kill them when you want to eat It is traitorous and has nearly killed the Protozoa Im following I try to protect the ones Im following and I also usually follow the oldest ones when that glitch isnt there but I killed them or changed their chromosomes first Another of the smartinteresting things about this is that they almost always eat the ones they kill instead of just leaving it there and they seem to have a taste for scavengers The last thing I wanna say for now is about the Protozoa I mentioned earlier that lived to be over 4000 Hesheit kept on mating with hisherits children until some of them probably had the exact same chromosomes as himherit But hesheit only mated with the ones that were the same color as himherit Strange huh I also think thats how hesheit survived so longhesheit was always sticking around with its relatives The Protozoa hesheit mated with the secondmost often were the babytheives I mentioned                 ARTIFICIAL LIFE RULES

I think that most of these reviews have good ideas so instead of restating Ill say look below Also my suggestion is that there should be 2 or 3 levels of complexity mostly for sandbox mode I dont know how to work it into survival That way you can do level 1 to get the feel for it 2 to get going and 3 to really challenge you                 I love this gamesimulation

What are the ultimate chromosomes I never last more than 5 minutes in survival mode                 Help

Its great if you want to see little living creatures move around and all D but needs an update it crashes and has some bugs but overall its great and I love it                 I love this app

At first its hard to figure it out but eventually it is a accurate model of evolution and its very fun to play                 Amazing Please update

This is amazing but could go with some improvements I suggest adding some if andor statements EX If predator less than 180 units away and food less than 80 units away then eat My second suggestion would be to have more behaviors to add more customization Finally I suggest adding a game mode that is like survival but your overall goal is to become the dominant protazoa Keep up the good work and try to make many updates to make this the most amazing simulator on the market It definetly has the potential to become the best I had an idea for a new gametype You pick 2 previously created protazoa or 1 previously created protazoa and 1 randomly generated one The game then makes 100 of each no breeding allowed and the one thats wiped out first loses Also if you could add some way to save a succesfull Protozoa directly from sandbox mode to your list of custom Protozoa that would be great Keep the updates coming                 Amazing simulator

This is an excellent app but unfortunately the sandbox function doesnt work on mine I would really appreciate if this were fixed           No sandbox

Fun app There are some problems though Breeding is pointless In survivability mode it ends the instant the single protozoa you started with dies regardless of whether it has produced a hundred offspring or none at all In the sandbox mode you can pick one and follow it but again when that one dies you lose all ties to it You cant follow a family ofprotozoa in either mode Therefore there is no point to breeding The life span of a single unit is all youre ever able to look at The protozoa dont want to go to the sun I program the unit to go away from the sun if it gets too close and towards the sun if it gets too far away Unfortunately the speed it uses when going towards anything other than the sun is many times faster than the crawling speed it uses to go back the other way Im not sure why this is but the result is unit after unit eventually getting stranded way out in the middle of nowhere Why are the speeds different Why not just make it react the same to everything If you want to reorder your chromosome list you need to build it completely from scratch from each time The interface needs some way of dragging and dropping or telling it to swap the order of two adjacent chromosomes or something Anything would be better than having to reenter each line one at a time Another good idea would be to allow copying and holding a complete chromosome list so you can transfer it from one protozoa to another The logic is funny If I decide to use only 5 chromosomes for example and I make the 6th chromosome some kind of catch all it doesnt necessarily catch all Theres a behavioral difference between whether just the 6th line says if my life 0 find a mate andthe 7th through the 10th are random other things and if the 6th through the 10thchromosomes all use the same catch all statement It shouldnt make a difference but it does           Some Suggestions

While many of upgrades to statistics are great the overall gameplay has suffered Protozoa behave oddly an often contrary to how they are programmed For example stated action is something like go to nearest relative yet the Protozoa hugs the wall when a relative is only a short distance away I am also not a fan of the 50 life cost for mating It was fine how it was in my opinion What used to be my favorite game is now virtually unplayable Would love to change this rating Please fix        Used to be great

Is awesome                 Artificial life

Beautiful to watch and mentally stimulating until you find the perfect combination of behaviors that results in a creature that never dies Then the challenge is to tweak it until it makes a big family I havent done that yet So far not dying avoid the sun eat nearby food run toward food when predators are near attack scavengers when you get hungry The rest are just for fun but I still dont have a big family Let me know if you make a big family The things that would make this app sell better are if you could compete organisms with other players and if you could keep playing when you die if you still have family alive like pick one of them to jump to I dont ever play sandbox mode                 The only app Ive never deleted

The survival mode is pretty good Good overall              Pretty good

Best life simulator out there Maybe the only one                 Love it

BEST APP EVER At first it was really confusing but once I figured it out BEST APP EVER Like I said it takes a while to figure out how it works but its worth it and I play it at least an hour everyday Do not get if you are easily addicted or you will never stop playing                 Three words

i love to see how my little creatures evolve and adapt to the different challenges i throw at them                 amazing evolution and adaptation

I love this game sooooo much I once had a huge tail one but everybody teamed up on him and killed him                 AWESOME