Coding Adventure: Boids

It's hard to evaluate this without seeing a screenshot of your game, but 360 raycasts per bot per frame for a basic 2d game is INSANE. It sounds like you are trying to query every angle in every direction for every character. This is madness. I have a 3d space game in Unity which uses raycasts for navigation. Each ship fires a maximum of 1 navigation raycast per frame with a sweep pattern. In addition there are anti collision thrusters placed around each ship which fire roughly every second in a staggered pattern to prevent ships from getting stuck In my fully 3d game, that's effectively ~1 raycast per frame per enemy. To locate hostiles, each ai character scans a runtime set of potential hostiles and does a line-of-sight query roughly once every 5 seconds. There definitely is another issue going on here with your setup that is independent of the extreme overhead in Godot. I would recommend Sebastian Langue's excellent boids video to get a sense about other strategies to deal with these types of queries: ▶ this video

Awesome work, the green terminal style is really cool. And the fact that it's just Vanilla JavaScript, HTML & CSS is a pretty cool touch. I would've produced something a tenth the style with 10x the complexity Just some ideas/suggestions: - Better colors: maybe genes can influence colors a bit? The random colors aren't that great, they're good though for making all the boids distinct. - Zooming: Scroll the mousewheel to Zoom In/Out, drag to move around - Interactive: Click on a Boid, have it be followed around using zoom! - Time controls: Not just framerate, but a % multiplier on simulation speed. - GPU Refactor: I don't think you're doing any of this yet, so maybe optimizing for a GPU-based speedup would be cool? See if you can reach 10,000 boids! Sebastian Lague's video goes into parallelization, just not in JavaScript: ▶ this video