breakdown.md

• Have many agents interacting in interesting ways, with individual utility functions.
  • Allow live display and control over utility functions.
    • Represent Considerations and Actions
      • add these to the model
      • show them to the user
  • Give agents things/places/events to seek out
    • Allow agents to move
    • Allow agents to derive utility from...
      • ...social interaction
      • ...reducing entropy
        • by fighting fires
        • by cleaning up trash
      • ...eating
      • ...moving about
      • ...resting
  • Give agents things/places/events to avoid
    • Allow agents to...
      • ...take damage
        • From fire
        • From attacks
        • From hunger
      • ...recognize unpleasant areas
  • Give agents reasons to cooperate
    • feeding the hungry
      • giving carried food to the hungry
  • Give agents a 'frustration' feeling
    • Give agents a way to break out of unproductive patterns
      • Define "unproductivity" for actions
        • e.g., not getting closer to food to eat
  • Group those agents into factions
  • Allow agents to navigate complex environments
    • with a navmesh?
      • or a dynamic navmesh?
  • Allow live display and control over the space
    • Render the space
    • Render agents
      • Render a circle
      • Render a simple, oriented shape
      • Render an emoji to indicate the agent's state
      • Show a short trail of where they've been
    • Render objects in the world
      • Fire
        • Render a filled red circle that fades out at the edge
        • Show a fire icon at the centre
      • Food
      • Food Store
      • Trash
      • Rest areas
    • Allow moving agents via click-drag
    • Allow adding / removing objects in the space
  • Show interesting stats / graphs over time
    • Record time-series of the stats
      • Identify the stats of interest
    • Draw a graph
  • Have dynamic obstacles in the space
    • add pathfinding