the-life-engine-rust

A port of emergent garden's The Life Engine

This port is not feature complete, but the proof of concept here exists!

Currently missing:

• The ability to save and load simulations
• The ability to change the rules of the simulation
• The ability to change the size of the simulation
• Walls, food placement, custom organism placement
• simulation speed
• correct AI behavior
• organism ability to rotate

Instructions to build this simulation

Install Rust

Install rust using this link.

If on Linux

install the dependencies for bevy:

The commands for ubuntu are

sudo apt-get install g++ pkg-config libx11-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev libxkbcommon-x11-0

After your dependencies are installed, restart your shell.

• if you get the error error: failed to run custom build command for libudev-sys v0.1.4, it means that libudev-dev cannot be found. this can be resolved by restarting your computer if restarting your shell does not address this issue.

If on Windows

install the [dependencies for bevy as described in the bevy quickstart]:

After installing OS dependencies

rustup default nightly
cargo run --release

Troubleshooting

Message @adamime on discord for help!