jryzkns/Life

Game of life implementation. Made with love, for LÖVE.

Life

Game of life implementation. Made with love, with LÖVE.

What is this?

• The game of life is an interesting take on how organisms (and communities of organisms) live and die
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
• Rest in Peace John Conway 😢

Dependencies

• The game was developed on LÖVE 11.1, but it should work on older versions as well
• A creative mind and a heart full of love
• Also written in Lua

Controls

• the game starts in the paused mode, where you can mouse click cells to make them live or die
• when the game is not in the paused mode, the game world will automatically begin evolving. To toggle paused mode, press space
• automatic evolution happens every set amount of ticks. To speed up evolution, scroll down on the mouse wheel. Similarly, to slow down the evolution process, scroll up
• take screenshots by pressing p. Screenshots will be saved in your local directory depending on your operating system (see this link for more information: https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem)
• press esc to quit the game

Details

• The board is 1000 px wide and 600 px tall
• The actual tiles are 10x10 pixels meaning there are 100x60 tiles
• Music playing in the background is based on the # of live tiles at any given moment

jryzkns 2018