The Bibites is now available on Steam if you would prefer to download there. Its the same version with the added benefit of steam integration, community file sharing and automatic version updates.
Welcome Everyone!
This is The Bibites
A simulation where you are able to watch evolution happen before your very eyes!
Each bibite (the small critters you see on the screen) starts off with an empty brain (they do nothing) and pretty basic genes (they all look alike).
Through random mutations, one can be spawned with a brain connection that will link two neurons and might trigger a behavior, like going forward, which will allow them to eat food, and then reproduce with the energy gained.
You have reproduction, mutations, and natural selection, which leads to ...
With time, this develops into complex behaviors, like following pheromone trails to hunt other bibites, or stockpiling food in a specific area of the map.
Present Features
- Vision
- Procedural Sprites (generating a custom sprite for each bibite from their genes)
- Self-awareness (state, health, energy, etc.)
- Pheromones (producing and sensing)
- Grabbing and Throwing stuff (pellets and other bibites)
- Materials and Digestion Simulation
- Realistic Energy System
- Neural Network Brains
- Internal organs and genetically weighted apportionment
- Speciation and lineage trees
- Statistics and graphs for analysis
- Engineering Tools to create your own bibites and scenarios
- Challenges to test your genetic / brain engineering skills
The simulation is also interactive, allowing you to YEET bibites and pellets around. You can selectively kill bibites, feed them, force the laying of eggs, and so much more.
It's also highly customizable, allowing you to test a nearly infinite number of scenarios. How will they evolve if there is no drag (no friction)? What about if moving is extremely energy-costly?
It's your job to test it all, I sure can't do it by myself.
Planned features
- Seasons/cycles/events
- DOTS based parallel computing structure (greatly improved performance)
- Sex! (Sexual reproduction, polymorphism, castes, etc.)
- Module-based systems for unbounded evolution and incredible performance
- Biomes (environmental simulation)
- Evolving ecosystems (the plants/food evolve too)
- Rocks (Movable objects)
- And much more!
THIS IS THE STANDARD AND COMPLETE VERSION OF THE GAME and will continue to be updated and supported FOR FREE with all the features of the game besides the ones specific to Steam such as Steam achievements, the Workshop, and leaderboards.
Linux Users:
There seems to be an issue with some Linux users. If the game displays issues, add the "-force-vulkan" command line parameter when launching the game.
Mac Users:
Apple needs you to run any app from the Application folder. So make sure that's where you extract the .app folder.
Join The Community:
The Bibites official website and merch store Here
Public Discord Community Here
Support:
The best way to support is to subscribe to my Patreon to provide me with reliable income . This comes with perks like access to the Bibites Patreon discord and early access to alpha versions.