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We had some pretty cool results for Project1 Here are some of them, along with an arbitrary description of same.

Meet the Flockers by Raja Bala
In a near perfect adaptation of Camus' L'Étranger you are a circle caught in a world of flocking boids. Eat your fill of the boids, but beware the red boids! They will hunt you without mercy; unless you eat the yellow power pellets: then the tables will turn!
Uses Processing.js

The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Flocking by Andrew Bender & Thomas Nagl
Use your mouse to spawn red predators who will follow your mouse at speed until their stamina runs out. Your objective: the boids. Your obstacle: the blue guardian who waits, ever present, to cull the slow or the weak.
Uses Processing.js

Rock-paper-scissors by Brandon Biagioli & Andrew Bolanowski
A satirical look at the life of revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, you create teams of rock boids, paper boids, and scissor boids. They live and die for your amusement, like in the sands of the arenas of Rome.
Uses Processing.js

Babe! Game of the year Edition by Will Buck & Josh Klein
You, a mouse-controlled shepherd, must herd a group of blue boids into their pen while the omnipresent pressure of time haunts you. A more obvious critique of modern-day Marxism there isn't.
Uses Processing

A Farewell to Flocking by Thomas Elliot & Kevin Paprocki
Like the naïve overuse of X-rays in the early 20th century, in this program you can observe the very nuts and bolts of flocking, using sliders to change the weights of each of the boid's desires. But at what cost?
Uses Processing

Zombie Flockalypse by Tom Grim & Jordon Moxon

The news reports an outbreak of a mysterious virus with the power to turn boids into green cannibalistic monsters. Then there is a burst of static, and the pillars of society crumble without a second glance. Is this how boid-society ends, with a whimper? No! For you, a steadfast (and armed) boid has the power to find the survivors, bring them to the safe room, and hunt down those "things" that even now begin their remorseless assault on the bastions of civilization.

Uses Processing

Sheep Herder by Jeff Hugo & Chris Mills
Argos (Ἄργος), the faithful dog, waited the long years until the return of Odysseus with stoicism and grace. He was the first to recognize the return of his master, disguised though wily Odysseus might have been. I can only conclude that in the interval he practiced some version of his herding game, where your barks guide the sheep to safety.
Uses Processing.js

Avoid the Boid! by Conrad Knutson & Li Qiao
Do not go gentle into that good boid. WASD keys should move your dot away. Rage, rage against the dying of your dot. Those wise men know that more boids will spawn over time, and your fate is inevitable. Rage, rage against the dying of the dot.
Uses Processing.js

Super Space Tempest: Revenge of the Boids by Brad Lang & Will McCardell
This "tempest", rather than a retelling of the bard's eponymous tale of magic and revenge, is instead a game where your guns and missiles must be used against a hostile swarm of boids. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own."
Uses Processing.js

Lizzie Boiden's Revenge by Ian Rae & Irene Shei
In a game rather similar to asteroids, you must navigate through an uncaring universe, armed only with your wits, a rough approximation of Newtonian physics, and a gun. This is not the only similarity to "Apocalypse Now."
Uses Processing.js

Wing Commander by Alex Smith & Chris Zeitler
Boxes to the left of you! Boxes to the right of you. Was there a boid dismay'd? No, for they have you, the mouse pointer, to guide them to safety.
Uses Processing.js

Super Mario Boids by Tim Swast
Go forth, young square! Avoid the boids that will draw towards you. Jump on the platforms to escape their clutches. Use your mouse to distract the fiends. Your victory will taste all the sweeter for the hardships you must endure.
Uses Processing