The-Life-Game

The Game of Life is an implementation of the cellular automaton designed by the British mathematician John Horton Conway.

Rules

• A dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors will live.

• A living cell with 2 or 3 living neighbors will remain alive.

• If a cell has less than 2 living neighbors it will die of loneliness.

• If a cell has more than 3 living neighbors it will die of overpopulation.

Installation

• clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/Mitchell-Mirano/The-Life-Game.git

• Install python virtual environment

  python3 -m venv env

• Activate the virtual environment

  source env/bin/activate

• Install the dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the game

  python main.py

Usage

In the game window press the pause key and draw the initial population of cells with the mouse.

• If you click on a cell it will live.
• If you anti-click on a live cell this cell will die.

Optional

In the .conf file you can modify the following game parameters

• window size
• cells number
• background color