/gameoflife

Conway's Game of Life implemented in go

Primary LanguageGo

UnclassedPenguin Game of Life in Go

Reasoning

I have been practicing my go lately, and so I decided to make Conway's Game of Life.

Thanks to The Coding Train for the complicated (at least for me) math to do the wrap around world.

Try it Out

To try it out yourself, make sure your go environment is set up, then:

$ go install github.com/unclassedpenguin/gameoflife@latest

Then simply run:

$ gameoflife

Create Custom arrays

I created the tool.go to create custom starts. run tool.go $ go run tool.go. it starts with a blank screen. click on cells to enable them, or click again to disable them. When finished, hit s to save. It will ask for a file name, and then hit enter, and it will save filename with a .txt extension in the current folder. To run it, run the main program with -f and the file name. $ go run main.go -f gameoflife.txt then press 2. Press 2 at anytime to restart.

To-Do:

  • Combine tool.go into main program.
  • tool.go - Add a help pop up when press h.
  • Handle panic if while running terminal size changes and it tries to go out of range of the array.
  • Maybe add a history of what the starting array was, so you can repeat it?
  • tool.go - Add ability on save to enter a name of file to save.
    • This is kind of clunky. Its really cluttered and not very elegant. Can it be refactored?
  • Add ability to edit starts with the tool. So load an already created file into the tool, and edit it...Simple enough, ya?
  • Add ability to start with a custom array instead of random...So you can draw interesting patterns and see them working.
  • Need to add flags.
    • One for a file to read, if you are going to do custom ones. Which will be an array of arrays.
    • One to show generation.