Conway's Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac OS

The game of life is a well known cellular automata where only 2 state of cells comes into play, and with just a few rules demonstrates itself that, based on the initial conditions, it generates a lot of mesmerizing patterns throughout the game field. This game was created by the mathematician John Conway back in 1970, 50 years ago, as a result, a lot of math lovers have tried to visualize it.

It's what it says on the tin, Conway's Game Of Life done in 'garden' form.

1. With more features than ever, this version of Conway's Game of Life is surely the best.
2. Conway's Game of Life. This project implements well known Conway's Game of Life. Note that this implementation uses Periodic Boundary Conditions to simulate a field of an infinite size, i.e. Each boundary is connected to the opposite boundary. This makes algorithm a bit more complex to implement but it mimics better the intent of this game.

Done in a rush for Ludum Dare 46: Keep It Alive

Controls: The hackerman mac os.

Left mouse - plant and remove crops.

R - Reset the stage.

Goals:

There is no 'win' state (though there's definitely a way to lose). Collect as many berries as you can while trying to avoid 'wasting' crops.

Crops are only 'wasted' if you pick them up when they are 'dead'. Crops can be revived if there are enough live plants near them.

Berries will only form if Conway's plant can sustain in place for 3 days or longer.

Tips:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Examples_of_patterns

Unknown survival mac os. ^ this wikipedia might come in handy ;)

Known bugs:

- Dead plants will reset to first stage when coming back alive.

'Improvements Needed' :

- A resizable grid and some options around live/dead plants would have been fun. :(

- Sound would have been nice.. :(

Additional resources used:
Super Mario 2 font https://www.dafont.com/super-mario-bros-2.font

Notes: This was pretty rushed due to having roughly only 20 hours of the 48 hour jam to make a thing.. it shows.

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Explore a garden with the arrow keys and tend it as you like. Mole mash mac os. Hold X to reset.

Based on Conway's Game of Life.

Conways Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac Os Download

Entry for TweetTweetJam 4 made with PICO-8. This is the entire source code:

Install instructions

Conways Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac Os X

Tips:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Examples_of_patterns

Unknown survival mac os. ^ this wikipedia might come in handy ;)

Known bugs:

- Dead plants will reset to first stage when coming back alive.

'Improvements Needed' :

- A resizable grid and some options around live/dead plants would have been fun. :(

- Sound would have been nice.. :(

Additional resources used:
Super Mario 2 font https://www.dafont.com/super-mario-bros-2.font

Notes: This was pretty rushed due to having roughly only 20 hours of the 48 hour jam to make a thing.. it shows.

Conways Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac Os Update

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Explore a garden with the arrow keys and tend it as you like. Mole mash mac os. Hold X to reset.

Based on Conway's Game of Life.

Conways Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac Os Download

Entry for TweetTweetJam 4 made with PICO-8. This is the entire source code:

Install instructions

Conways Garden Of Life (oakreef) Mac Os X

.p8 and .p8.png files require PICO-8 fantasy console to run.

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I really enjoyed wandering around the garden trying to coax the plants to grow into interesting shapes.