Two Player Conway Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life is cellular automaton. Without the technical jargon think of it as programmers trying to emulate cell reproduction, or lets say bacteria.

For more information on Conway's Game of Life head over to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_...

The way this particular two player implementation works.

1. Players place their cells.
2. Cells grow or die based on the rules below. 1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies.
2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies.
3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

So we have the two sides competing to grow the most cells.

For more info on this program, and others like it check out www.blurrycode.com

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Entertainment

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• Conway
• Game
• of
• Life
• NBCC
• Miramichi
• C++
• Programming

[XerolOplan]

How do the different coloured cells interact? Are they iterated simultaneously or individually?

[MartinDCopp]

They all act simulatneously. The cell's colour is determined by whatever the colour is of the majority of cells surrounding it.

Just give me a shout if you'd like to check out the source.

[tarot4games]

@williamsharkey I seen a 2 player life in an old book on computer games. It did use majority rule to decide the color of new lives.

[williamsharkey]

I made a two player game of life before, somewhat similar to this. I was delighted when I figured out that the color of a new born cell did not have to be super-arbitrary, but a "majority rule" could be used.

Imagine adding "stamps paintbrushes" at the drawing round, so that you could use pre-programed forms.

And then of course, imagine if this could be played online. I know it's a ton of work to make an online game...

[lucirz]

may i see the source? im doing this for my class but my teacher is so horrible. we did not even do arrays or vectors yet and still he assigned us this problem. we all are lost. you have to use arrays for this right?

[gawa4002]

how come you always have to download these kind of games?

[qwecjc]

each step in time, a cell survives if it has 2-3 neighbors, is born if it has exactly 3 neighbors, otherwise the cell dies or remains dead

[DELTAWOLF05]

where can i download this

[robotwo]

With higher refresh rate iy looked awesome ^^ , nice tune too =3 .... 5* thanks for sharing