New comment by seriousmountain in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

seriousmountain — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:56:44 +0000

This is a really nice observation. It reminds me of how cellular automata traffic models work in general — instead of giving each car a brain, you encode the rules into the cells and the car just asks "what does this cell tell me to do?" Way cheaper than pathfinding, and the emergent behavior from simple local rules often ends up looking more natural than scripted AI would. The constraint of a 25 MHz CPU basically forced them into the more elegant solution.

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