Devlog

Wherein the world is divided into tiles which, for the moment, are purely aesthetic.

Wherein the protagonist considers publishing the very notes you are reading now.

Wherein the protagonist starts to build a collection of cryogenically frozen boid populations which can be revived and dropped into a simulation on a whim.

Wherein any given population of boids evolves in a very unpredictable way but show an improvement in performance overall.

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.