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I think this will work

I had a moment just now that greatly reassured me with this game's design. I just finished implementing the basic enemy logic - shooting, dying, and finally moving. The game, as I mentioned, is about randomly generated enemies that evolve with genetics (i.e. the ones that do well get to reproduce and make new enemies).

After several of the enemies bobbed around shooting me, all of a sudden one popped out of the spawner, dove to within 20 pixels of me, and starting circling and bobbing really fast. It proceeded to destroy my face.

Here are some pictures, but I think I need a video or demo to really show it off.

A big fat enemy

Enemies can have three types of weapons - lasers, bullets, and missiles