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make me wonder if anyone has ever made an actual game out of game-of-life? good work. the gradually fading trails are a nice touch. clever 'abuse' of the rgb c

• train_robber 11y ago
  http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/ http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/
• vog 11y ago
  Two things on the top of my head: 1) There is a classic space shooter game whose physical engine is defined solely in terms of a cellular automaton. However, to make this work the rules are not exactly Conway's rules, and cells have more than two states (multiple colors instead of black/white). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIkQUuHoSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIkQUuHoSw 2) Strategy Game: A long time ago I developed such a concept with a friend, but we never implementated that game. The idea was to have a strategic game whose units (and their strength/weaknesses) are fully described by Conway's rules, such that new "units" are not defined by the game designers, but by the players. And dicovering new interesting Game-of-life structure may give you an advantage over your competitor. 3) However, somebody else implemented a strategy game of top of Conway's game of life. It has a very different concept than what my friend and me envisioned, though, so I guess there is room for many more different games: http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/ http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/
• vortico 11y ago
  Powder Toy http://powdertoy.co.uk http://powdertoy.co.uk
  • foota 11y ago
    That's quite the throwback, I remember playing with a simpler version of this around ten years ago now.
• fastball 11y ago
  Not sure about Conway's Game of Life, but there is a tower defense game where the enemy is modeled like cellular automata, which is kinda like that. https://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/playcwts.php https://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/playcwts.php
  • 7373737373 11y ago
    There is also Survivium: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Survivium/review.asp?c=26359 http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Survivium/review.asp?c...
• stared 11y ago
  I always chuckled at example of non-existent strip games: Conway game of life (https://xkcd.com/696/ https://xkcd.com/696/). But yes, there is an actual game out of the game of life: http://lifecompetes.com/ http://lifecompetes.com/.
• dspillett 11y ago
  I've got a couple bookmarked from when I once did a search (having had similar ideas myself). http://lifecompetes.com/ http://lifecompetes.com/ is interesting, as is http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/ http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/ (already posted by vog). The other links I saved seem to have died. None of them worked quite the way I envisaged[!] but there have been a few interesting variations on using the basic rules to make a competitive game. [!] so writing my own is still on the list of "weekend projects that might happen if hell freezes over and I find the time"!
• Faint 11y ago
  Herbs in ADOM (adom.de, a roguelike game, a bit like nethack) grow with Conway's Game of Life rules, so you want to pick herbs so as to maximize herb growth next time they grow.
  • oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
    There's a similar growth mechanism (fungus?) in Populous 2.
• singold 11y ago
  I had a game of life based game on an old win95 machine. I cant remember it exactly but there was a grid and 2 teams with 2 different cell colors. Every turn the game of life rules were applied once to "advance" in time, and in every turn you can add a square of your team and remove a square from the other team
• sp332 11y ago
  Sure, you can do Game of Life in Game of Life :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8