Currently packaged as jsimulate
# make sure Java is installed
# clone repo
# then...
# navigate to src directory
cd src
# compile
javac jsimulate/Main.java
# run
java jsimulate.Main- New creature: Scoopers
- Unlike Puffers, Scoopers gather food from afar and carry it back to their home
- For now, their appearance is identical to Puffers, but they do not grow, reproduce, or starve
- For now, bringing food back home has no effect
- New terrain: Homes
- All Scoopers have a home. Homes map to a family, binding Puffers and Scoopers
- If there are more Puffers than Scoopers, the extra Puffers are homeless (will change)
- For now, homes confer no protective benefits
- Significant refactoring to better utilize inheritence and polymorphism
- New behavior: Reproduction
- After a certain number of growth spurts, puffers die and produce offspring
- Number of offspring is proportional to size at time of death
- Successive generations with same ancestry will not attack one another
- Simulator UI: Input parameters
- Enter the number of puffers, food generation interval, and world size
- Press 'start' and see your world come to life!
- Performance improvements:
- Puffers now much more adept at getting around walls
- Puffers no longer run off the edge of the map when being chased
- Puffers better at charting a path away from predators when near walls and edges
- Simulator UI: Pause, resume, and (buggy) restart
- New behavior: Starvation
- Puffers that cannot find food die after a while
- New behavior: Exhaustion (temporary)
- Puffers die after a certain number of growth spurts
- Crumbled walls persist as spots on the map
- Fixes to smoothness of Puffer movement
- New Puffer attribute: Speed!
- Food provides nutrients for both size and speed
- When Puffers reach certain milestones for either, the stat will increase
- Food formed from decayed puffers will mimic the attributes of their living body
- New behavior: Predation
- When food is scare, large puffer will seek out smaller ones to attack
- Small puffers can sense when they are being chased and will try to escape
- Simulator UI: sidebar with manual start button
- Still very much in beta, but an important step towards a general-use program
- New Terrain: Walls!
- Walls form from rotten food
- Puffers cannot pass through walls
- After a long time, walls will crumble
- Simulator UI: scrollable window for large worlds
- Food now generates randomly at regular intervals
- Dead puffers will decay and become food after a while
- Multiple puffers seek out closest food
- Puffers grow in size and get better eyesight after eating enough food
- Big puffers kill small ones on contact
- Puffer seeks out nearby food
- Puffer eats food on contact
- Food distributed randomly
- Single puffer moves randomly
- Blank screen