Ant colony simulation

WIP games, tools & toy projects
#21

That would be great. I’d love to play this as an applet or webstart. Which method is best probably depends on what framework/libraries you’re using. Sorry if you mentioned that already!

#22

No I haven’t mentioned that yet :slight_smile: It’s running on LWJGL. I looked into libgdx this afternoon, mentions desktop/android integration, if it does applets too that would be perfect

#23

gdx does not do applets. it does html5 via gwt and webgl.

#24

Unless I’m misunderstanding something, you can use LwjglApplet to launch libGDX games as an applet. You can also launch them as webstarts. Here’s a little game I made that uses both, if an example would help: http://staticvoidgames.com/play/?game=AvalancheRider

#25

LibGDX has its own native bits, but if you shipped those over, sure, I imagine it could work. It just doesn’t go out of its way to help you package applets or anything.

#26

Yeah, it works fine. And it’s extremely easy, too. Here is all the code I needed:


public class MyGameApplet extends LwjglApplet
{
	public MyGameApplet()
	{
		super(new MyGame(), false);
	}
} 

public class MyGame extends Game implements ApplicationListener {  
//...

And it works fine. You just have to export it as a runnable jar (which grabs everything for you) and I believe sign the jar, and you’re set!

#27

Updated links at top /info, plus APK. Still need to figure out how to get HTML version (libgdx) to work.

#28

New version on the desktop jar link. Finally getting behind-the-scenes code working good, and can move on to fleshing out the game.

Still having a big issue with performance on mobile devices. GPU is fine, but CPU struggles at about 100 ants (I want it to handle at least 500).

==================== Updates =================

  • Antlion added

    • Winged version wanders looking for suitable spot for egg
    • (Currently egg grows instantly into larva, for testing)
    • Winged flys away, leaving larva and trap
    • Ants that fall in are eaten

  • UI improvements

    • Job assignment window
    • Caste assignment window

========== Current priorities =================

  • Finish UI
  • Find bottle-neck in simulation causing slowdown on mobiles

And then there are sound effects, scenarios, saving progress, other tiny details that need to be fixed… Dang, how do ya’ll finish a game? :o

#29

New version on the desktop jar link. Finally getting behind-the-scenes code working good, and can move on to fleshing out the game.

Still having a big issue with performance on mobile devices. GPU is fine, but CPU struggles at about 100 ants (I want it to handle at least 500).

==================== Updates =================

  • Antlion added

    • Winged version wanders looking for suitable spot for egg
    • (Currently egg grows instantly into larva, for testing)
    • Winged flys away, leaving larva and trap
    • Ants that fall in are eaten

  • UI improvements

    • Job assignment window
    • Caste assignment window

========== Current priorities =================

  • Finish UI
  • Find bottle-neck in simulation causing slowdown on mobiles

And then there are sound effects, scenarios, saving progress, other tiny details that need to be fixed… Dang, how do ya’ll finish a game? :o

#30

Is this project dead? It was shaping up quite nicely.

#31

Is this project dead? It was shaping up quite nicely.

#32

It was interesting! Played a little.

#33

It was interesting! Played a little.