Conway's Game of Life

by smv

What is this?

The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
Read more here.
I just made it in C for fun. Web version here.

How to play?

Controls

• Holding space pauses the game while releasing it resumes. When held:
  • click/drag to add cell(s)
  • shift + click/drag to remove tiles
  • right arrow key to move ahead by one frame

Custom rules

Pressing shift will toggle the rules bar.
The rules can be something like l3=0 m4=1 =6=0 for example

• l means less than, r means more than and = means, well, equal to.
• The number just after defines the number of cells.
• The number at the end defines if a cell should be alive or dead if true. So l3=0 translates to if less than 3 neighbours, cell should be dead

How to build?

make build

Run using

npm run dev

Or serve . using a web server of your choice. Or try the web version directly here :P