James Conway's The Game Of Life

[Eagle]

I posted this in the gaming forum, but nobody visits the gaming forum, so here it is again...

I'm sure all you programmers out there have made this game at one time or another. Here is my version. I'm still working on some more features, like continuous stepping, random fill and I want to make it dynamic so you can choose your grid size. Thats why there is a bunch of empty space there, I actually have components there that are invisible and not functioning yet. Your going to need the VB6 SP5 Runtime files as this is in Visual Basic since I dont know how to make Windows apps in C++.... yet. Anyway, enjoy.

 

[Lachp30]

Hey, great game Eagle

 

[Eagle]

Glad you like it. Technically it isnt a game though, its just called the game of life.

There are different things you can do. I added the save feature so you can share your colony ideas with people.

Challenge:
Try to find as many colonies as you can that never die, like this one.

 

[Eagle]

Challenge: Try to find as many completely imortal colony where there are never any births and never any deaths as you can. Like this one...

 

[mesman00]

i don't get it and am way to lazy to read the rules. but its still cool

 

[Eagle]

There are 4 rules for goodness sake, how long can it possible take you to read them.

 

[Eagle]

Just some background here, this game was originally in a newspaper (computers didnt exist so you had to do all the death and birth calculations on your own) when James Conway first released it, it was an instant hit. It has such simple rules and yet it gets so complicated. Conway, revieved mail on different combinations of colonies for years afterward.

Simply put, its a fractal algorithim.

 

[DuDe]

Yeah, I remember doing this one in my first year of CS studies in the uni. Not hard to implement, but the outcome is cool.