A downloadable simulation for Windows

Game of Life Playground

an interactive simulation of Conway's Game of Life.

You may draw your own shapes and patterns and examine how they evolve, based on the game's simple rules.

Controls:

ESC: quit
SPACE: pause / resume simulation
LMB: activate cell(s)
RMB: deactivate cell(s)
F: toggle fullscreen
C: clear all cells
R: randomlize cells
U: update the simulation by a single step
W, A, S, D / Arrow keys: move camera
Mouse wheel: zoom in / out

You may find a long list of implementations and variations of the Game of Life in this post.

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows
Release date	Mar 14, 2021
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings)
Author	seedgamelab
Genre	Simulation
Made with	SFML
Tags	2D

Download

Game_Of_Life_Playground__version_1.zip 96 kB

Development log

A long list of Games of Life
Mar 17, 2021

Comments

Straaberg3 years ago

Cool version of the game, and thanks for the link and mention :-)

seedgamelab3 years ago (1 edit)

Hi there, thanks!
By the way I just managed to play your version.
I really like the brushes idea, it would be nice to have more of them (for example some gliders? ), or to allow for a custom brush!