Game of Life

About

This project is a C++ implementation of the Game of Life by John Horton Conway Wikipedia article on "Game of Life".

This project was created for a coding challenge/assignment by Buutti Education.

Building and launching the game

You need to compile the game to run it. You need the following programs to build and run it on a Linux-system:

• g++
• pkg-config
• libsdl2-dev
• libsdl2-gfx-dev

You can install them with:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install -y g++ pkg-config libsdl2-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev

Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/rootElmo/Game-of-Life

Build the program by going into the src folder and use g++:

$ cd src/
$ g++ -o ../build/game-of-life game.h logic.cpp main.cpp rendering.cpp `pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl2 SDL2_gfx`

If you want to make modifications to the game, you can build it using the above command again!

Now if everything went OK, you can access the build folder and run the game:

$ cd ../build
$ ./game-of-life

This method has been tested with a fresh Xubuntu 18.04 virtual machine.

Playing the game

At first the game presents you with a blank screen with a grid. You can set the cells either "alive" (white) or "dead" (black). You can now manipulate the game with the following inputs:

• R - resets all cells to initial state
• Space - starts automatic iteration of generations. Automatic iteration can be turned off by pressing space again, or by pressing R
• Right arrow key - iterate through generations one by one

Documentation/details

You can read more about the game and how it works here!

References

1. Wikipedia - Game of Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

2. Tsoding - Profun (using SDL, rendering logic) https://github.com/tsoding/profun/tree/master/procedural // Link to video later

3. Dulhan Jayalath - GameOfLife (Game logic) https://github.com/armytricks/GameOfLife // Link to video later

Created by Elmo Rohula 2021