When scripting character types, pay attention to when particular pragmas and conditionals are called and how often they are called. This has a profound effect on character behaviors.

Agents are initialized (or re-initialized) each time:

• STAGE: "SETUP" is clicked
• STAGE: "SAVE" is clicked
• "RESET STAGE" is clicked.
• Script is submitted from Script Editor (and Main is not in SETUP)

When an agent is initialized it runs the following scripts:

1. # PROGRAM DEFINE
2. # PROGRAM INIT
3. Instance Editor Properties / aka instance spec initScript

Note that # PROGRAM UPDATE is NOT run yet. So any scripts in there will not fire.

When "START ROUND" is pressed, the following scripts will fire.

(Depending on the EVENT, # PROGRAM EVENT may or may not fire before # PROGRAM UPDATE.)

• # PROGRAM EVENT onEvent Start [[..]] -- Called once on "GO"
• # PROGRAM EVENT onEvent Tick [[..]] -- Called every second
• # PROGRAM UPDATE -- Called each loop (30 times a second)
• # PROGRAM UPDATE when xxx touches yyy [[ .. ]] -- Called each loop (30 times a second) whenever xxx touches yyy
• # PROGRAM UPDATE when xxx touches yyy [[ every 1 [[...]] -- Called every second whenever xxx touches yyy

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• bunny.json
• Bee.json (fly = 0-3, walk = 4-5)
• hive.json
• Flower.json (yellow = 0, orange = 1, blue = 2)
• Fish.json (sated = 0, hungry = 1, dead = 2)
• algae.json
• lightbeam.json

• setProp x -200
• setProp y 100
• featureCall Movement setDirection 90
• addProp energyLevel Number 50
• propCall energyLevel sub 1
• featureCall Movement setMovementType 'wander' 1