Project write on my GitLab repository in May 2025

🐑 Simple Ecosystem Simulator

A minimalist retro-style ecosystem simulation featuring reproduction, feeding, sleeping, and a day/night cycle.

Developed with LÖVE2D, this project provides a foundation for experimenting with entity behaviors in an evolving and autonomous environment.

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🎮 Project Goal

Simulate the life of creatures (sheep) in a tile-based environment (Tile), with natural behaviors such as:

• movement toward resources,
• sleep based on circadian rhythm,
• conditional reproduction (age, energy, season…),
• social bonds (following the mother or a partner),
• aging, gestation, and birth.

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🧠 Implemented Mechanics

• Day/Night cycle with a global clock (WorldClock)
• Seasons influencing reproduction
• Terrain tiles with grass that grows and can be eaten
• Sheep (Sheep) featuring:
  • needs (hunger, energy)
  • gender, age, gestation
  • herd behavior (following mother or partner)
  • sleep patterns (diurnal/nocturnal)
• HUD visualization of time and population statistics
• Visible social links between individuals (colored lines)
• Behavioral modularity through directories:
  • Behavior/: graze, move, sleep, reproduce, social
  • Entity/: world entities (Tile, Sheep)

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🚀 Running the Project

Requirements

• LÖVE2D (version 11.x recommended)

Launch

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📌 TODO / TODO / Planned Improvements

• Lifespan and death management
• Introduction of new animals (predators, prey…)
• Simple genetics (trait inheritance)
• Weather system (influence on grass growth)
• Interactive menu + clickable UI
• Data export (statistics, population logs)

🧑‍💻 Auteur

Project initiated by Jojopov, as a training ground for simulation design, natural AI logic, and clean Lua code structure.

🧾 Licence

GNU GPL3

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