Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton, played on a 2D grid of cells. Each of the cells can be 'dead' or 'alive' based on that cell's 8 neighbors.

Installation

Before you get this, you need

• C++ compiler of your choice
• SDL2
• SDL2 TFF

If you need help with setting up SDL2, you can check out this excellent tutorial.

In order to get it running, first clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/hadber/game-of-life.git

and then compile it with

g++ gol.cpp -w -lSDL2 -lSDL2_ttf -o gol

Usage

You can left-click to set a cell as 'alive' or right-click to set it as 'dead'. The game starts as paused. To unpause (or pause later), press space on your keyboard.

Demo