That's REALLY nice. I'm currently working on a similar project myself, except that it involves dragons and the primary apps (which are distrubuted code as well, "lairs") aren't in Perl but I may be writing a bunch of functional helper scripts around it in perl for cleaning data files and displaying statistics on the web in Perl.

What sort of interface does your virtual environemnt have? Is it graphical? Does it allow for web-interactivity?

Where'd you come up with this project, I really like the idea. My dragons are yet just starting out fledgling and I'm even going to start trying my way into geneticly-programmed AI (to study emergent behavior.)

Anyway, I could babble on forever on these sorts of subjects so I'm going to close up with just saying that I'm very impressed to see someone out there with that sort of imagination putting something to work like that, especially in perl.

Amerist A'Toll.
May GEM's light shine upon thee!