Game Of Life

This is a repository containing a cellular automaton implementation inspired by John Conway's Game of Life

Dependencies

• Python 3.6.5
• SDL 2.0.10
• Pygame 2.0.0.dev6

Installation

1. Download the project folder using git clone
2. Run main.py using python3.6 (3.7 not supported)

Description

This is a zero player game based on the theory of Cellular Automaton. The game provides 6 different evolution methods for the world with different rates of growth and patterns. The player can give an initial design of white (alive) cells and proceed to see the evolution or directly start with a random grid (probability of initial populations varies for ease in visualisation)

Implementation

The game consists of 3 major scenes - intro.py, modes.py and game.py each containing the game loop for displaying the relevant screen with the necessary utilities. Then there are 2 scripts that handle the actual evolution of the world in evolution.py and rules.py. There are also 4 helper scripts containing the global variables and the rendering of text and images and it is all tied down using main.py.