j0hn30n/world-js

A brief history of humankind in Javascript simulation game

World JS: History Simulation

World JS is an attempt to show you a brief history of humankind via a simulation game.

This project was inspired from what I have learned from A Brief History of Humankind by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari.

Developer Guidelines

Getting Started

Read this wiki page about how it works before you do anything else.

• Code conventions
• Change log
• Benchmark

Modules

• World JS: Create a world where people live and reproduce.
• Core: Define a world and manage its main loop.
• Tile: Divide a world into tiles. Each tile holds references to all seeds (objects) that currently stay in it.
• Event: Register behaviors to take effect when an event occurs.
• Seed (base class), Male and Female (extend Seed): Define an object that will be added to a world to live and interact with other objects.
• World History: Create culture of a world.
• Statistic: Track statistic data of a world.
• Rules: Define rules that will affect a world and all of its living creatures.
• Knowledge: Add IQ to humans so they can learn knowledge to survive.
• Language: Define language of a world.
• Knowledge.data: Define all knowledge data of a world.
• Presentation
• Guide: Queue up messages that will be displayed on the main screen.
• Interface: Bind a world and its properties to UI. Define some basic UI interactions.
• Story: Initialize a world and define the History Simulation story.

Sample code

Require World JS

// Create a new world
var world = new WorldJS();

// Add the world to a HTML wrapper
world.init('world-wrapper-id');

// Add 50 random people to the world
world.addSeeds(50, {
    types: [world.Male, world.Female]
});

// Start the world
world.start();

// Add another woman to the world
world.addSeed(world.Female, {age: 25});

License

Copyright An Vo @an_voz, 2013-2014.

Licensed under MIT.