README.md

bazaarBot

A simple agent-based free market simulator engine.

This engine consists of various "Agents" trading commodities, with emergent free-floating prices that rise and fall according to the laws of supply and demand.

The eventual goal is to create an open-source "Economics engine" for games and simulations, much like contemporary open-source "Physics engines."

Based on "Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games" by Jonathon Doran and Ian Parberry.

Source: Procedural Content Generation

Building the example project

1. Read this: Getting Started with OpenFL
2. Install Haxe and OpenFL and everything according to the above instructions
3. Install the hscript library (a dependency of bazaarBot): haxelib install hscript
4. Clone this repo somewhere on your hard-drive, let's call that path/to/bazaarbot
5. On the command line type haxelib dev bazaarbot path/to/bazaarbot to add bazaarbot as a Haxe library.
6. Open a command-line, navigate to path/to/bazaarbot/examples/doran_and_parberry
7. Run lime build flash to compile for flash
8. Run lime build windows to compile for cpp/windows (or lime build mac or lime build linux, etc)
9. Run lime build html5 to compile for html5
10. Binary executables will appear in the Export/ folder
11. Substitute lime test instead of lime build if you want to build AND immediately run the result.