Smiling Zombies is a vigorous clash of zombies and smilies.
Zombify every single smiley and form your own tribe of zombies. The smilies look like innocent harmless cuties, but they might turn out to be beastly. Don't let them endear your with their cuteness.
When you start the program and click your right mouse button, the evolution begins.
Want to pause the evolution? Click the right mouse button once again.
Zombies is an immensely important part of this world, but aside from them there is also such species as smilies. They incessantly consume plants, consume each other, procreate and evolve. Remember, only the fittest species survives.
The smilies have the following properties:
- Speed
- Vision distance: how far the smiley can see
- Energy:
eating plants/smilies augments the energy;
higher vision distance/speed => higher energy consumption;
zero energy means the cessation of smiley's life - Procreation threshold: how much energy is required for the smiley to procreate
- Food preference: whether the smiley prefers to eat plants or other smilies
The descendants inherit the properties of their predecessor with a small deviation.
The smilies which have black eyes and black mouth are the smart smilies. Their algorithm of finding food is more advanced.
The zombies are the descendants of the zombie boss. The zombies boss is what is controlled by you.
When a zombie boss collides with a smiley, the smiley turns into a zombie.
Subsequently, this new member of the family of zombies can zombify other smilies.
Instead of energy, normal zombies and the zombie boss have health (the health of the zombie boss can be seen in the top right corner). Both normal zombies and the zombie boss receive health zombifying smilies.
Both normal zombies and the zombie boss lose health colliding with the plants. In addition, the zombie boss does lose health on vision distance and speed.
Plants are merely stationary objects which can be eaten by smilies and trodden by normal zombies and the zombie boss, but smilies receive energy, whereas normal zombies and the zombie boss lose health.
- The zombie boss follows your mouse cursor
- Click your right mouse button to pause/resume the game
- Click your left mouse button to put the zombie boss to sleep and see the entire evolution field. Click it again in order to waken it
- Click your mouse wheel to switch between the scales on the right-hand panel
- Scroll your mouse wheel to change the value of the active scale
- exit: exiting the program
- new game: starting a new game
- ?: calling the window with the help
- The drop-down list beneath the Which creature properties to display title: selecting the properties which have to be displayed