Devlog
2024
IEntityListener
·1232 words·6 mins
Wherein the protagonist is so impressed with cppreference.com that he would write an ode to its example code.
More Cerealization
·611 words·3 mins
Wherein the dream of serialization demands weak pointers and more code restructuring.
Cereal Demands Smart Pointers
·296 words·2 mins
Wherein the achievements of the most impressive boids can be recorded in JSON for posterity.
Braitenberg Vehicles
·1015 words·5 mins
Wherein boids realize they may need to compete with other types of agents in what they thought was their simulated paradise.
Semicolon After Class Definition
·604 words·3 mins
Wherein boids are observed to perform a strange dance worthy of narration by Sir David Attenborough.
Evolution Log
·401 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist finds more ways to see just how poorly his populations of boids are performing.
References Instead of Pointers
·86 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist desires to purge his code of unnecessary pointers.
Fast Forward
·622 words·3 mins
Wherein the performance of the boids is so unsatisfactory to the protagonist that he wishes to skip past most of their lives.
Press 'M' to Mutate, Select, and Repopulate
·601 words·3 mins
Wherein several generations of natural selection yields boids that still mostly go in circles but occasionally steer toward food.
Command-Line Implementation
·184 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist is surprised by a strange comparison result in C++, as if he’s never seen that before in Javascript.