Devlog

Wherein the protagonist relates all his woes to the waterfowl oracle and receives good advice.

Wherein the boids learn to sense their own fatigue.

Wherein a boid experiences fatigue and death for the first time.

Wherein the protagonist compresses the lives of an entire generation of boids into a single image, 800x800 pixels in size.

Wherein the protagonist takes out his frustrations on innocent boids by reducing the available food.

Wherein the protagonist is reassured that when something goes wrong in a programming project, it is never the computer’s fault.

Wherein a new agent inspired by Braitenberg’s Vehicles is introduced and horrifies the protagonist with its unexpectedly bad performance.

Wherein the codebase is hacked apart and rebuilt to accommodate different types of agents.

Wherein the protagonist is so impressed with cppreference.com that he would write an ode to its example code.

Wherein the dream of serialization demands weak pointers and more code restructuring.