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Conway's Life

by Frank Carney · 01/19/2007 (2:23 pm) · 4 comments

I have not been programming since before November and am really bummed out about it. I was looking through my book called "Creating Turbo C++ Games" and stumbled upon the chapter on Conway's Life algorithm. So I have started writing the life algorithm and am going to run it in a mission in Torque. This is really kind of fun. Once I get the 2D version running I am going to attempt a 3D version for the fun of it. I am writing it completely in script. I am thinking I will try some variants after reading these:
http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/22864/11101
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighLife
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton

I am wondering if this could even be good enough (fun enough) to turn into a game of some sort. Some kind of cellular puzzle solving game. At any rate I am programming again!
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I Started programming in HS and have never stopped. Now an 18 year vet of programming anything from assembler on a NES console to a nuclear waste processing system. If it can be programmed I may have tried to program it!

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Associate Andy Hawkins
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#1
01/19/2007 (3:29 pm)
Quote:"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side"

Put those little critters into an arena, give me a blaster and lets see if those bleeters can evolve...c'mon!!!!!

Quote:"Let's go, yeah, come on! Come on! Come and get it you bastards! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? #$&* you!"

...ahem

Torque Owner Frank Carney
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#2
01/19/2007 (3:42 pm)
I was thinking about using projectiles to choose which cells are live or dead at the beginning of a run...

Hey, is that second quote from a Evil Dead game/movie?

Torque Owner Clint Herron
#3
01/19/2007 (6:17 pm)
I'm pretty sure he's quoting Hudson in his final shining moment in one of my favorite E.T. movies. :)

Implementing Conway's Game of Life in TorqueScript sounds pretty cool -- I look forward to seeing it!

Associate Andy Hawkins
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#4
01/19/2007 (6:42 pm)
Yep the second quote was Hudson in Aliens... sounds like fun and Conway's Life is an awesome study of evolution. If you build on this it could be a really interesting game.