Love this one! I managed to finish after a while - the asteroids are mostly an annoyance, I'd probably enjoy a lot just the experience of playing around with the bots on their own. But what exactly is it going on? It feels like the bots behave a bit like a cellular automaton, but it's certainly not the classic Game of Life. I like their slightly erratic movements a lot, but can't pin down their rules.
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Agreed on the asteroids, without much balancing work I think they mostly just serve the purpose of ensuring you don't build a mega-massive cluster all at once. Not sure if I would keep them long-term or try to find a more compelling 'antagonist'.
Yes! They're part of a cellular automaton updating 10x per second. Iteration order is randomized so that they're not always moving in a single block, and there's a 5% chance for any given bot to move in a random direction each update, regardless of input. Glad you liked it!