Conway's Game of Life
Free Game
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About Conway's Game of Life
Watch digital life evolve into beautiful and interesting sequences. Conway's Game of Life follows simple rules, but can result in unexpectedly complex patterns.
The standard format involves an infinite grid of square 'cells', with some squares initially 'alive' and the rest 'dead'. At each step and for each cell one of four things can happen, based on the number of neighbour cells that are alive at the time:
- A dead cell remains dead (default)
- Life spawns in a dead cell, when dead cell has 3 live neighbours
- A live cell survives, when the live cell has 2 or 3 live neighbours
- A live cell dies (default)
You can also set up custom rules.
Simply touch a cell to toggle its state between dead and alive. You can also drag to apply this same state to a large number of cells. Manually changing the state of a cell pauses time for a while, so that you can make all of the changes you want before the cells are automatically updated.
Once you've found an interesting configuration, you can save it for later to show to your friends.
Additional Information
This app was developed using Corona SDK.
You can pinch to zoom out, stretch to zoom in or drag two fingers to pan the screen.
You can save configurations locally to your device. Some well-known, interesting configurations are provided with the app.
The standard format involves an infinite grid of square 'cells', with some squares initially 'alive' and the rest 'dead'. At each step and for each cell one of four things can happen, based on the number of neighbour cells that are alive at the time:
- A dead cell remains dead (default)
- Life spawns in a dead cell, when dead cell has 3 live neighbours
- A live cell survives, when the live cell has 2 or 3 live neighbours
- A live cell dies (default)
You can also set up custom rules.
Simply touch a cell to toggle its state between dead and alive. You can also drag to apply this same state to a large number of cells. Manually changing the state of a cell pauses time for a while, so that you can make all of the changes you want before the cells are automatically updated.
Once you've found an interesting configuration, you can save it for later to show to your friends.
Additional Information
This app was developed using Corona SDK.
You can pinch to zoom out, stretch to zoom in or drag two fingers to pan the screen.
You can save configurations locally to your device. Some well-known, interesting configurations are provided with the app.
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Android
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Android game
Game History & Updates
What's Changed
Increased sizes of GUI elements to handle smaller devices
Increased sizes of GUI elements to handle smaller devices
More downloads Conway's Game of Life reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Conway's Game of Life reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Version update Conway's Game of Life was updated to version 1.3
More downloads Conway's Game of Life reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about Conway's Game of Life
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Please consider the option for life to wrap instead of stopping at the edge. This adds another level of fun. I wrote a version in 6502 assembly on the Atari 8 bit back in the 1980s. Been interested since it was a paper based exercise. Landscape mode for larger screens would also be welcomed.
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The customization options are very nice. I really appreciate the access to templates of structures like the Glider. I would like to recommend the option of a turn counter, and a button to advance the game forward one turn at a time, manually. I also support the idea of looping the boundary. So far great work. John would be proud!
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Easy to use Game of Life board that can be zoomed in and out. Professional look with many options, including changing the rules (very nice), predefined shapes and saving patterns.
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Perfect visualisation of a classic game. The only function I miss is scrolling. Life spreads indefinitely beyond the visible bounds. How can I move the window across the universe?
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Gutes Spiel, wenn auch Nachmache! Das "Original" gibt es ja leider nicht für Android, definitiv beste Version auf Android! Aktiver und Motivierter Entwickler welcher versucht sein Spiel zu bessern. Props to you!
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More speed in a larger field would make this much better. The selection of cells from the screen is good
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It doesn't require any permissions. F*©∆ yes.
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Great and intresting game
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10/10 would create vagina-like sculptures again
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Awesome
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Good
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Cool
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I don't really know what is the point of this game
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This game was supposed to be 2 player
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I didn't get this app.
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It looks good, and with a handful of customization options to make Life even more fun to look at, it's only mitigated by the fact that you will have to change the settings to the way you want them whenever you start. Furthermore, whenever I try to zoom in or out, I just end up creating more live tiles or killing off already live ones while I zoom
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I like the userinterface, although the algorithm seems to be very much unoptimized? Lags ALOT after zooming out.
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When i zoom out, some rows from the bottom disappear.
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Great job. Conway,s game has been used for describing mechanisms by which life has been emerged in earth about 4.5 bilion years ago.
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Friend told me about this and it's awesome. Great user interface as well.
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Sand:box is better.
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Good.
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Fun
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This game is great at theory and super fun to make formations but: - zooming out causes you to create blocks - zooming out causes the screen to try to render ALL of the on-screen empty blocks. This causes the phone to become really slow. Maybe have a look at optimising zoomed out rendering and implement dedicated zooming. The bugs above gives for an overall buggy experience.