Game of life

This is a sample implementation of the game of life in go using faiface/pixel 2D game library (https://github.com/faiface/pixel).

Features:

• Graphical User Interface with different colors representing the cell state and condition
  • : Dead - the conditions don't allow a reproduction of a new cell in the next state
  • : Dead - a new cell will be reproduced in the next state
  • : Live Cell - not in danger
  • : Live Cell - Overpopulated - will die in the next state
  • : Live Cell - Underpopulated - will die in the next state
• Customizable width, height, cell size, and framerate (see Usage)
• A new random board is populated at every run

Running the game

To run the game run make run in the root directory of the repo.

Usage

  -cellSize int
    	The pixel size of each cell (default 30)
  -frameRate duration
    	The framerate in milliseconds (default 500ms)
  -height float
    	The pixel size of the height of the grid (default 300)
  -width float
    	The pixel size of the width of the grid (default 600)