Devlog
2024
HUD, SimRunner, and Boid Energy
·2422 words·12 mins
Wherein a boid experiences fatigue and death for the first time.
Image of Boid Movement. Energy and Selection
·969 words·5 mins
Wherein the protagonist compresses the lives of an entire generation of boids into a single image, 800x800 pixels in size.
Better Results from Less Food
·79 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist takes out his frustrations on innocent boids by reducing the available food.
BraitenBoid Troubleshooting
·3024 words·15 mins
Wherein the protagonist is reassured that when something goes wrong in a programming project, it is never the computer’s fault.
Introducing the BraitenBoid
·553 words·3 mins
Wherein a new agent inspired by Braitenberg’s Vehicles is introduced and horrifies the protagonist with its unexpectedly bad performance.
IAgents it is
·98 words·1 min
Wherein the codebase is hacked apart and rebuilt to accommodate different types of agents.
IEntityListener
·1232 words·6 mins
Wherein the protagonist is so impressed with cppreference.com that he would write an ode to its example code.
More Cerealization
·611 words·3 mins
Wherein the dream of serialization demands weak pointers and more code restructuring.
Cereal Demands Smart Pointers
·296 words·2 mins
Wherein the achievements of the most impressive boids can be recorded in JSON for posterity.
Braitenberg Vehicles
·1015 words·5 mins
Wherein boids realize they may need to compete with other types of agents in what they thought was their simulated paradise.