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Have you never played Spore? :)

It was pretty good at this. Great fun for experimenting with locomotion.

Evolutionary pressure was never baked into the final game - it was all intelligent design. This was a missed opportunity, in my opinion.

Spore share a surprisingly similar trajectory to No Man's Sky. Overpromised, underdelivered. Hey, I guess that's just like AI!

That's true, but it did figure out the locomotion for you no matter what way you designed it. I ran into very few creatures that couldn't move.

It's pretty primitive if you go back and play it, but the locomotion system is something I haven't seen in any other game.