go-life

Terminal based Conway's Game of Life. Implemented in Go.

Features

Run on your terminal!
Insert pattern from presets
Color themes
Mouse editing

Install

Binary

Go to release page and download.

$ wget https://github.com/sachaos/go-life/releases/download/v0.4.0/go-life_darwin_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/go-life
$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/go-life

Manually Build

You need go version 1.11.

$ git clone https://github.com/sachaos/go-life.git
$ make install

How to use

Start

$ go-life

Set pattern & theme

$ go-life --theme Ocean --pattern glider-gun

Load pattern

Load from STDIN

$ curl http://www.conwaylife.com/patterns/glider.rle | go-life --file -

Load from file

$ go-life --theme Ocean --file ./glider.lif

Help

$ go-life --help

Keymap

SPC: stop
Enter: step
c: clear
r: random
h: hide this message & status
p: switch preset
t: switch theme
LeftClick: switch state
RightClick: insert preset