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-Explanation-

Conway's Game of Life is a set of rules that can be applied to a grid to create a cellular automaton. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its starting state.

Conway's Game of Life rules are as follows:

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Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.

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Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.

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Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.

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Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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-Formations-

Here are some interesting examples of what you can make with said rules

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Examples of interesting growth patterns

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Examples of Oscillators

(objects that experience some form of growth whilst staying in place)

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Spaceships

(objects that move into a direction)

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Gosper glider gun

(formation that shoots out gliders indefinitely)

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-Code-

Here I'll be showing some of the code that was used in this project.

The main game(excluding the menu screen) uses only 2 scripts, a gameMaster and a tileManager for each individual tile

-The gameMaster-

-The tileManager-

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If you would like to play my version of GOL,

you can download the game

I had a lot of fun making this project and it provided me with a fun and challenging task. And I learned a lot from it in the end.

If you're interested in Conway's GOL(or perhaps you would like to try it yourself), you can view the Wikipedia page about Game of Life