Game of Life

Conway's game of life written in C++ using SFML library.

Screenshots

Features

• Zooming (scroll with your mouse)
• Moving around (move the mouse while pressing the mouse scroll)
• Pausing (hit escape or click the GUI pause button)
• Placing cells (hold/click left mouse button)
• Removing cells (hold/click right mouse button)

Optimizations

Used optimizations:

• Cell culling (render only visible cells) (chunk culling should replace this in the future)
• Vertex array (sending data to the GPU in single draw call)
• Logic is calculated on separate thread
• VertexArray building is on separate thread
• VertexArray is rebuilt only when necessary

How to build

Clone the project with submodules by running git clone https://github.com/rxn7/game_of_life --recurse_submodules
Configure the project by running ./configure.sh
Build and run the debug version by running ./debug.sh
Build and run the release version by running ./release.sh

To do

• Chunk system
• Infinite world
• Game settings (GUI)