- Repository
- jvpts11/agents-exe
- Status
- The ground and the fauna are alive; the people are next
- On the desktop
- Open agents.exe
Everything is written in Polaron — the worldgen, the 3D renderer, the simulation — with no engine underneath it. The only thing borrowed is OpenGL itself, through Polaron-OpenGL, which is also Polaron. That is half the point: the game is the language’s stress test, and every hole it walks into gets fixed in the compiler rather than worked around in the game.
Rivers cut the plain, herds graze it, and the forest holds the ridge.
The ground
A world of 2560×1440 cells is searched for rather than rolled: it is generated, measured against criteria such as one continent instead of fourteen islands, and rejected if it fails. Tectonic plates give the relief, climate follows the relief, rivers follow the climate, biomes follow both, and forests and ore bodies follow the biomes.
The fauna
About fifteen thousand animals live on it, seventeen species described by real numbers: how fast, how shy, how long they live, how many run together, what ground they can live on. Nothing above that is scripted:
- a herd thinks and a beast follows, which is a few thousand decisions driving fifteen thousand moves rather than fifteen thousand decisions;
- flight is one comparison against how shy the animal is, and running costs stamina;
- the hunt has no chase routine at all: prey flees in bursts, a pack walks and does not tire, and the animal that falls behind is the animal that gets caught;
- a species can end, permanently, and the world says which of five things did it.