Bois

Simple swarm simulation using the Boids model

Bois follow simple rules:

• Separation: Don't bump into other bois
• Alignment: Follow your fellow nearbois
• Cohesion: Keep the gang together
• Escape: Don't go running out of the arena

Each Boi is has randomly generated attributes within some constraints:

• Vision: How far can they see
• Speed: How fast they can go
• Turning speed: How quickly can the turn around

Species

Predator

• Tries to go after nearby prey

Prey

• Runs away from nearest predator

Life & death

When a predator catches a prey, it gobbles it up.

Roadmap

Features

• Different Boi types - eg. predator (& gobbling) & prey, different species with distinct strategies
• Lifecycles - death & breeding
• World interaction - Eg. different biomes, weather, mountains that affect the Bois differently.
• Strategy variation - Let bois care differently about the different rules

Technical improvements

• Graphics - Some terrain, sprites, etc.
• Better data structure / algo for dealing with spatial stuff - STRTree for finding nearbois, etc.
• Interface to enable Bois as a simulation environment for others Like these
• start refactoring out things - Entity, Strategy, separate update logic from rendering, etc.
• Replace hand-rolled Vec2 with out of the box one from ggez.