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Engage, learn, and evolve as students take charge of a group of charismatic ducks and embark on an extraordinary evolutionary journey. Witness natural selection in action, adapt to changing environments, and uncover fascinating complexities through an engaging and interactive gameplay experience.

Dawn of the Duck is a single-player game and simulation developed for the Evolutionary Psychology course to teach concepts of evolution.

The project is broken up into 2 parts

• An Experiment Mode where the students set parameters like life span, mutation rate, body size and agility. The simulation will run with the set parameters until the duck population has died out or a set objective is met.
• A Play Mode where the students can make decisions at certain points to influence the evolutionary process of the ducks. Similar to the simulation mode, students set parameters before the game commences. At junctures during the game, students will be asked to select a number of evolved ducks to proceed with the game.

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