Rust-oids

I’ve just given a name to my Rust A-Life experiments and released them as a project at Rust-oids

Rust-oids

This project started as a test bed for gfx-rs and rust_box2d wrapper. It gradually evolved to a sandbox emulator for little artificial things which were, possibly aptly, renamed “rust-oids”. I’m now looking into breeding/genetic algorithms and possibly simple neural networks.

Eventually I plan to plug in some sort of gameplay and release as a free game. Strictly evening/weekend toy project: don’t hold your breath.

Feedback welcome, feel free to submit issues to the GitHub repo

Prerequisites

I’ve only built on Ubuntu GNU/Linux but I’ve got reports of successful builds on Mac OS + Homebrew. Aside from the full Rust toolchain, the following packages are required:

• libbox2d-dev
• libfreetype6-dev

How to play

• Left mouse click: create bioid.
• Left mouse drag: drop some balls.
• Right mouse click, drag: move light.
• B: set background tone
• L: change light intensity