Creatures Caves

A freaking GameMaker-like agent creator. CAOS can read and write raw text files. That way you could make a database of basic, commonly used scripts, such as being eaten and causing a stimulus. Maybe even script pieces which are called within the script. As I said, you know way better what I talk about when you know the GameMaker. The database, being based on raw texts, even could be expanded on demand!

I am not entirely sure about the details, since this is sick hardcore CAOS I only bothered very little with, but I think you can modify scripts in the scriptorium. I know for sure that you can read them out and even write them to a file, I am just not sure about how much they can be modified.

For that purpose though, I would recommend to research how SCRP reacts when called within another script. SCRX definitiely can be called in other scripts, but where would SCRP take the input from? Once this is figured out you could, theoretically, write scripts of agents right inside the game. The ways of making an actual text editor inside the game are kind of limited, but it would open up the path for automated generation.

Combining CAOS' ability to read text files and the ability the write scripts, you already had most of the things you needed. Create a blank action script, import the actions you needed and you are done. Example: select "eat script". Select "stimulate with 'eaten fruit'". Add some medicine. Kill yourself. Script done.

Using it's ability to actually write scripts from the scriptorium into a file (which definitely exists, since I used them myself before) you could create a whole cosfile. Alternatively, you could spare the path over the scriptorium and just paste from file to file directly. You could make whole, stable cosfiles using that way. It would be hard and complex, but absolutely possible.

Lastly: C3/DS has a built-in compiler. That's right! You do not need PRAYbuilder, easyPRAY, Monk or all those other tools! Using the right CAOS command in the console, you could compile agents just using the console itself!

Now let's combine all the things I listed up! We can write cosfiles. Using that knowledge, it is an easy thing to write PRAY files (which are just raw texts as well) once we figured out a way to detect dependencies like sprites or sounds just from the scripts. Now we have an artifical cosfile and an artificial PRAY file. All we need to do now is compiling. Use the PRAY file to pack the cosfile into a cute little downloadable chunk. Hey! We can do that! The game can compile on it's own! BAM! Agent creation in creatures!

Of course this would be one behemoth of a project, probably even making the gardenbox blush. As always I'd like to say that I merely point out what is possible, not what is easy.

C-3PO: Oh my goodness! Shut me down. Machines building machines. How perverse.