SubTerra
Modern Ant Colony Simulation Built with Bevy ECS
Challenge
Classic ant colony simulations are either oversimplified browser toys or academic papers. No modern game captures the depth of SimAnt with today's rendering and simulation capabilities.
Solution
Engineered a full ECS-based simulation in Rust using Bevy, where thousands of ants exhibit emergent behavior through pheromone trails, resource gathering, and colony defense. Parallel systems spread the work across multi-core CPUs to keep the simulation running in real time at scale.
Results
- Thousands of simultaneous entities at 60 FPS
- Emergent colony behavior via pheromone system
- Parallel ECS systems for maximum CPU utilization
- WebAssembly build for browser deployment
System Architecture
Data-oriented ECS architecture with parallel system execution and WGPU rendering pipeline
Data-oriented ECS architecture with parallel system execution and WGPU rendering pipeline
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