Devlog

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.

Wherein the achievements of the most impressive boids can be recorded in JSON for posterity.

Wherein boids realize they may need to compete with other types of agents in what they thought was their simulated paradise.

Wherein boids are observed to perform a strange dance worthy of narration by Sir David Attenborough.

Wherein the protagonist finds more ways to see just how poorly his populations of boids are performing.

Wherein the protagonist desires to purge his code of unnecessary pointers.

Wherein the performance of the boids is so unsatisfactory to the protagonist that he wishes to skip past most of their lives.