Strands

An ecosystem simulator in early development written in Go using g3n engine.

Install Dependencies

To install g3n engine's dependencies for your platform, see the Dependencies section of the README. (Don't worry about the Installation section)

How to build and run:

git clone https://github.com/cbeimers113/strands.git
cd strands

go build . && ./strands
or
go run main.go

History

Check out the Releases page for the versions listed below!

Changelog

v0.2.1 - Bugfixes & GUI Enhancements

• Increase GUI scale
• Improve player icon in top bar
• Maximize by default
• Fullscreen/windowed option in config
• Fix memory leak bug between opening saves
• Reset position on new sim
• Fix autosave bug/persistent plants issue
• Toggle info panel for chemical quantities in top right
• Notifications appear in bottom left
• Topbar instead of info panel
• Space & control to go vertically up and down
• Limit how far from map we can go
• Tab to play/pause

v0.2.0 - Application & Engine Features

• Spin the camera slowly when in menu
• GUI style improvements
• Notifications
  • Notifications fade out
  • Notify when save is saved or loaded
  • Notify when new sim is created
  • Notify when save is deleted
  • Notify when config saved
  • Notify when a seed is planted
• Add logo to menu
• Button to create a fresh sim
• Save player camera position and rotation in saves
• Icon
• Embed textures for static builds
• Config file is in %APPDATA%/Roaming
• Version number tracked in .version
• Optionally save the state of the simulation to the disk between games
• Keyboard controller for typing input
• Save and load game files
• Delete a save
• Popup system
  • Prevent overwriting save (exclude autosave)
  • Notify when save can't be loaded
  • Ask if user is sure before opening/deleting a save or exiting game
• Use a nerdfont

v0.1.0 - General Enhancements:

• Settings menu to edit config
• Configurable day length and tick speed
• Configurable mouse sensitivity and player movement
• Controls section of info screen is togglable
• Right click tile to open context menu, plant a seed from context menu
• In-game clock & day-night cycle
• Refactored Views in the gui package
• Refactor entities as Entity interface

v0.0.8

• Refactored project structure
• New JSON-based config system
• Smoother player controls
• Golang version update to v1.21.5

v0.0.7

• Fixes issues with water simulation
• Adds a simulation pausing feature
• Updates README

v0.0.6

• Plants spawn at random position on tiles with variations in colour
• Rewritten entity framework
• Better "looking at" highlighting (use wireframe instead of messing with texture color)
• Tiles have fertility value between 0 and 1 that determines how likely it is to support a plant
• Fixes a bug with the hexagon mesh that impacted relative entity positioning
• Adds water to the world and basic water physics (water spreading)
• Several small minor improvements

v0.0.5

• Adds a WAILA (what am I looking at?) section to the HUD
• Adds a framework for dynamic elements in the atmosphere (gasses and liquids, may extend to powders in future)
• Improves the GUI framework
• Removes water as a tile type
• Improved cursor

v0.0.4

• Refines player mouse movement
• Adds a menus system
• Adds a main/pause menu, togglable with esc
• Adds an infotext panel in the top left corner (may evolve into HUD)

v0.0.3

• This patch replaces the default orbital controller with a more intuitive custom player controller framework.

v0.0.2

• Changes tiles to hexagons, increases the map size and quality, and makes the map 3D

v0.0.1

• The first working version that generates a simple tilemap and allows the user to move around the world and spawn plants on tiles.