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17.03.07

More on Conway’s Life

Posted in conway's life, everything, games, projects, shmups at 1:19 pm by the2bears

Kenta Cho has some contributions regarding my post, Collision Detection in Conway’s Life.

He offers a couple of examples that he’s done, two games that have both incorporated Conway’s Life. The first example, L.A. (built with Processing), was written a few years ago. Your ship follows your mouse, which also controls the direction you’re facing. The left button fires, red bullets from the front that destroy cells, and green bullets from behind that create cells.

L.A.

Another game, I believe created just recently (in which case Mr. Cho continues to amaze at how fast he realizes an idea :) ), is L.A.2. This game is similar to what I have been discussing, utilizing gliders as the shots from your ship. Hold ‘Z‘ down and the glider moves through its lifecycle. Release ‘Z‘ and it is destroyed, along with any cells it has contaminated. Which is a very interesting idea, that I had not considered. Any cells generated from the glider are contaminated, and they then propagate the contamination even further. I think it works quite well.

L.A.2

Also mentioned is Liquid War, though I haven’t had the chance to try it out yet. Primarily a Linux game there are also Windows builds available for playing.

Some very interesting stuff from Mr. Cho, once again, and I’m enthusiastic about getting some playable demonstrations done soon.

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5 Comments »

  1. ABA said,

    March 17, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    Hi,
    I also tried to implement a player’s ship consists of cells of a glider as you mentioned, but I couldn’t find out a proper way to do that. I’m looking forward to playing your demo.

  2. the2bears said,

    March 17, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Thank-you very much… I’m honoured. And now I feel under a lot of pressure :)

    Bill

  3. rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-18 said,

    March 18, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    [...] the2bears.com » More on Conway’s Life (tags: http://www.the2bears.com 2007 blog_post processing conway jogo_da_vida gameai) [...]

  4. the2bears.com » L.A.2 Update said,

    March 31, 2007 at 9:45 am

    [...] Kenta Cho has updated L.A.2. Scoring has been added, as well as ships remaining. Expect the source as soon as sound is added. Previous post here. [...]

  5. The Independent Gaming Source said,

    April 2, 2007 at 8:52 am

    [...] 2. Kenta Cho releases L.A.2 [...]

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