Cloak, Dagger and DNA

1995 · strategy · Windows · MS-DOS · Windows 3.x · Oidian Systems

Cloak, Dagger and DNA, Shareware version 1.0. By Oidian Systems. From Game Head Monthly January 1996 Videogame Shareware Disc, on archive.org. Dated from copyright date. "This is a multi-player strategy game combined with a genetic algorithm engine. Any combination of human and computer players can play a game. Computer players can be individually programmed or collectively evolved using genetic algorithms. The computer players are evolved not during a game, but over the course of playing many thousands of games with each other. The evolution engine keeps a pool of computer player genes (programs), which it pits against each other in four-game tournaments. It rewards the more successful genes by allowing them to combine as parents of new programs which replace the less successful genes. With this game, your computer opponents can literally improve on your computer while you run it." Appears to play fine in Windows 10 using WineVDM, though not extensively tested.