Conway's Game of Life

Python >=3.10 implementation of Conway's Game of Life using PyQt6

How to play

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/bartosz121/game-of-life-python

Go to the project directory

  cd game-of-life-python

Create new virtual environment

  python -m venv env

Activate environment

  # on Linux
  source env/bin/activate

  # on Windows
  ./env/Scripts/activate

Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Play!

  python game_of_life/run.py

Demo

• Start game with random alive cells

• Map editor (example of creating a Glider)

• Load pattern from file in .cells or .rle format (Dragon) you can download a pack of patterns from here

• Rotate loaded pattern (Copperhead)

• Save pattern to a file (.cells or .rle format)

Controls

• Press ESC to go back or pause while playing

• While playing press M to enter Map Editor

• Map Editor Controls

  • Left Mouse Button makes clicked cell alive
  • Right Mouse Button makes clicked cell dead
  • Press M to exit map editor and start the game
  • When saving a pattern to a file press Left Mouse Button once to select starting point, then press Left Mouse Button again to choose the end
  • After pattern from a file is loaded press:
    • Left Mouse Button to place it in the grid
    • Right Mouse Button to transpose it
    • Middle Mouse Button to transpose it over the other diagonal

Settings

You can change window size and interval timer in run.py file;

game = GameOfLife(800, 600, timer_interval=120)

All other settings (like cell width/height/color) can be changed in settings.py file, inside Settings class

TODO

• Implement other game of life algorithms (hashlife)
• Keep settings in JSON file instead of .py
• Better error handling
• Copy-Paste feature
• Change color of the rectangle for each direction when rotating loaded pattern
• Better GUI
• Display game data (alive cells, generation)
• Better performance with large resolution