Simulate beings walking, eating, drinking and mating on randomly generated terrain.

GoWorld

This repository is meant to work as a simple simulation of life. Multiple beings can move around the surface and try to survive. It is not a perfect simulation and not many (if any) laws of nature are implemented. Still a fun little project to showcase the capabilities of go.

The terrain generation is done using Perlin noise, the movement is based on Brownian motion. Everything else is pretty much randomly generated or chosen.

Dependencies

• ebiten ... a simple game library

Installation

Requirements:

• Go 1.12 or later (ebiten requirement)
• dep

Usage

Get the code:

go get -u github.com/rubinda/GoWorld

Get the dependencies:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/rubinda/GoWorld
dep ensure

Then, you can choose to either install to GOBIN:

go install cmd/goworld/goworld.go
goworld

... or build in the source folder:

go build -o GoWorld cmd/goworld/goworld.go
./GoWorld

Note: the last two commands (install or build) assume that you are positined at the root folder of this repository and that the appropriate tools and packages are installed. On macOS High Sierra nothing additional was needed, but in case of Ubuntu 20.04 xorg-dev and libgl1-mesa-dev were required)

License

See LICENSE.md