This time the little guys are on the hunt for food and when they feed they grow in length by one unit, just like the game snake for the old mobile phones. Each ‘snake’ has a unique set of ‘DNA’ which contains the following variables :

Speed of Snake : The speed of the snake will decrease as it becomes longer and increase as it shrinks.
Starvation Time : When the snake is not eating (looking for more food) the starvation time determines how long it takes before it looses one of it’s ‘units’ and gets shorter. The starvation time is closely linked with the speed of the snake. The faster the snake, the faster it’s unit’s diminish as it uses more energy moving around. A slower snake will use less energy and thus it’s ‘Starvation time’ is considerably longer. When the snake looses it’s final unit it dies and no longer exists.
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Digestion Time : How long it takes to convert an item of food into a part of it’s body (a ‘unit’).
Pregnancy Time : When a snake reaches a length of 10 units (this will be moved to the DNA in V3) it becomes pregnant and the pregnancy time determines how long it takes before an egg is laid.

When an egg is laid the DNA of the parent snake is transferred to the offspring within the egg. A random number of offspring is produced from each snake within the confines of a minimum and maximum litter boundary. The child snakes are born at a length of 1 unit and immediately need to feed or risk starvation.

Hit ‘SPACE‘ in order to show when the next harvest of food is due, or force it come sooner. Alternatively you can feed an individual area by hitting the ‘Feed Small Area‘ button.

Embed SWF settings in top line of code.

A quick and easy way of setting the runtime properties outside of the IDE. Place this before your Class deceleration but AFTER the package bracket.
[SWF(backgroundColor="#000000", frameRate="25", width="1024", height="768")]

Self Replication V1

A simple experiement in Self Replication.

SWF : http://www.pldm.co.uk/blog/selfrep/

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VerifyError: Error #1033 Cpool entry 29 is wrong type.

Don’t panic! It’s easy to solve. You’re running your SWF in a Flash Player version lower than the one you compiled it in. For me I compiled it as a FP10 SWF but my version of Eclipse ran by default in FP9 and that’s the error it spat out. If you are using Eclipse/FDT/Flash Builder then :