Conway's Game Of Life

The Game of Life is cellular automaton created by John Conway. The rules of this zero player game can be found on wikipedia.

Controls

./game_of_life -l load_file_path -s save_file_path -c [terminal, light, grayscale]

  Move      = arrows keys or wasd
  Zoom      = scroll wheel
  Edit mode = e or space
  Edit cell = left mouse when in edit mode
  Speed up  = shift + w or shift + up arrow
  Slow down = shift + s or shift + down arrow

Build Instructions

Currently only Ubuntu 20.04 is supported.

git clone https://github.com/C-J-Cooper/athena-engine.git
cd game-of-life
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Examples

To load the examples. From the build directory:

./game_of_life -l ../resources/examples/glider_train.txt