# Project to replicate systems ideas

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-to-replicate-systems-ideas/4036>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [October 23, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-to-replicate-systems-ideas/4036 "2020-10-23T10:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mickfuzz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/mickfuzz/32/419_2.png) [@mickfuzz](https://forum.makecode.com/u/mickfuzz)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-to-replicate-systems-ideas/4036/1 "2020-10-23T10:59:57Z")

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I’ve got a project to try to replicate some Systems Thinking ideas in Make Code.

Here’s one game called Triangles

> **[Triangles — A simple game for a Complex subject](https://medium.com/@chrisvmcd/triangles-a-simple-game-for-a-complex-subject-353484687855)**
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> My goto game to illustrate interdependence, connectivity and complexity is called Triangles. It’s a slight derivative of the Triangles…

I hoping to code something like the following in Arcade MakeCode

6 players spawned -  
1 is user controlled - others computer controlled  
Each selects two other players at random  
Sprites then move to try to maintain equidistance from those 2 other players

Triangles -  
test with 1 user controlled and 2 computer controlled here (using follow)

> **[Chasing donut](https://arcade.makecode.com/90830-54888-95119-71876)**
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> Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.

I may be on a high road to nowhere but would love to know how it might be best to approach this problem.

Any suggestions welcome - and I’m open to doing this in JS if there are limits to blocks.

Thanks  
Mick

If this seems impossible there are other systems stories/ archetypes here - that may be easier to approach.

> **[Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 12 Recurring Systems Archetypes](https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-thinkers-the-12-recurring-systems-archetypes-2e2c8ae8fc99)**
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> Archetypes are recurring patterns of behavior that give insights into the structures that drive systems. They offer a way of deciphering…
