Cute Pixel-Art Nature-Simulation. Herbivores search for apples, predators hunt for prey! Written in P5JS using the P5.Play-Library and the Planck Physics Engine.
Animals & Tile-Set: chien_bleu. License according to chien_bleu: "Feel free to use any of those however you want!"
Kudos to chien_bleu! Pixel-Art is as much about the retro-flair as it is about minimalism. And chien_bleu's work is minimalism at it's finest! Every animal is made with a bare-bones, no-nonsense approach and yet they all are immediately recognizeable. Chapeau!🎩
The code is written in P5JS. It makes use of the P5.Play-Library. The P5.Play-Library opens up some cool possibilities, because it gives us an easy way to use the Planck Physics Engine! Planck is the physics engine used by other popular games, like Angry Birds!
- Generates the background grass-tiles🌱
- Generates the lake🏞️
- Randomly scatters a few stones🪨
- Randomly generates the trees🌳
- Randomly chooses the predators🐺 out of a pool of 5 (Bear🐻, Dog🐶, Fox🦊, Wolf🐺, Snake🐍) and places them randomly on the Map
- Randomly chooses the herbivores🐰 out of a pool of 6 (Mouse🐁, Rabbit🐰, White Rabbit🐰, Stag🦌, Raccoon🦝, Squirrel🐿️) and places them randomly on the Map
- Randomly scatters apples🍎 as food for the herbivores🐰
- Randomly chooses the water-animals out of a pool of 7 (Frog🐸, Turtle🐢, Mallard🦆, White-Black Duck🦆, Brown Duck🦆, White Duck🦆, Grey Duck🦆) and places them on a random spot on the lake
- Builds the lake-house🏠 at the lake
- Drops a chest🎁 next to the lake-house
- The trees get generated semi-randomly. There is a check so they don't stand on top of each other
- They also won't get placed inside the Lake
- All trees have a small collider, so that the animals have to walk around them
- Stones are placed randomly on the grass
- Stones don't have colliders, they are decorations only
- The food (Apples🍎) gets randomly placed on the grass
- Once an apple is eaten by a herbivore, a new apple will spawn in a random place, to replace the one eaten
- Food has a small collider. Predators ignore apples🍎 for Food. But predators can collide with the apples and cast them away!
- There are 6 different prey-animals: A Mouse🐁, a Rabbit🐰, a White Rabbit🐰, a Stag🦌, a Raccoon🦝 and a Squirrel🐿️
- All prey-animals will search for food (Apples)
- Each prey-animal will go to a different Apple 🍎, to avoid cluttering the animals
- Once a prey-animal has eaten an apple, it gets a temporary speed-boost!
- If a predator-animal gets too close, the prey-animal will stop searching for food and start avoiding the predator-animal
- If a predator-animal catches a prey-animal, it dies and a new prey-animal is spawned to replace the one that died
- There are 4 different predator-animals: A Snake🐍, a Bear🐻, a Fox🦊, a Wolf🐺 and a Dog🐶
- All pPredator-animals hunt prey-animals
- Each predator-animal will hunt a different prey-animal, to avoid cluttering the predator-animals
- When a predator-animal catches and eats a prey-animal, it too gets a temporary speed-boost!
- This means some predator-animals can become apex predators and go on long continuous feeding-frenzies!
- My favorite part of this project! 💙
- Water-Animals don't do much, but they look the cutest, the pixel-art by chien_bleu absolutely shines here!
- There are 7 different water-animals: A Frog🐸, a Turtle🐢, a Mallard🦆, a White-Black Duck, a Brown Duck, a White Duck and Grey Duck
- They spawn in a random place on the lake
- Water-Animals don't do much, they just swim around on the lake
