Note: Early pre-release, under major construction
Code base is presently experimental and definitely subject to change.
A simulation of evolution, mutation, and survival for single-celled organisms. Every cell's sole purpose is to gain enough energy from its environment to undergo division. Cells are guided by their genes, with each gene offering unique advantages in environment.
Inspired by project Biogenesis.
Under Construction
- Cell / Gene Editor
- World Editor
- Custom gene creator
- Competetive online site that stores user-profiles/worlds.
- Users can share their worlds and records.
- Site-wide world that will inject organisms created by random users in a constant, competitive, spectator environment.
- Scoreboard for categories like, "most offspring", "longest-lived", "most infected", "most killed", "most eaten", and several more.
Cells will be driven with the sole purpose of reproduction. Each gene, of which there are currently 8, will provide a unique benefit, attribute bonus, or means of absorbing energy from the environment. Once a cell has enough energy, it will divide without intervention.
Cells can have between 2 and 16 genes, each of which has a length factor. The length factor will determine the effectiveness of that gene. Multiple duplicate genes are possible, with the total length being added together for cumulative effectiveness.
Cells will eventually be given seek and avoid behaviors for predator/prey, seeking out food/decay in the environment, and finding empty space to undergo reproduction. For now movement is random.
- Green - Photosynthesis
- Red - Predator Behavior / Attacking other cells
- Black (currently purple) - Scavenger / Eats dead and decaying cells and matter
- Gray - Infectious / Infects cells it contacts to replicate virally
- Cyan - Gives cells the ability to move in their environment
- White - Kills on contact
- Blue - Defensive barrier, cannot be harmed or infected
- Yellow - Increases fertility.
Each cell's first gene, a.k.a. base gene, determines the overall color of the cell. Each unique gene a cell has is represented as a smaller colored bubble inside the walls of the cell. Size is representative of average length for that gene type.
Under Construction
Right now this frankly isn't even a consideration, though it is tested on current versions of both Chrome 80.x and Firefox 72.x as of (2/01/2020). It's not expected to support Microsoft browsers but then neither should you be expected to use them.
- Switch from p5 to pure HTML5 Canvas
- Implement most gene expressions
- Build editors
- Contemplate the meaning of life
- Steering behaviors
- Frontend
- Backend See project details, there's plenty missing there too
- React
- JavaScript
- Webpack
- Babel
- NodeJS
- SASS
- (future) GraphQL
- (future) Apollo
- (future) MongoDB
- matterjs
- poly-decomp
- react, react-dom, react-router
- shortid
- simplex-noise
- lodash.clonedeep
- p5, react-p5-wrapper (development only)
- CCapture (development only)
- PRNG (xmur3, xoshiro128)
- Org/Cell
- Gene Expressions
- Org Environments
- matter.js wrapper