Conway's Game of Life

A simple implemention of Conway's Game of Life in python and pygame-ce

Installation

First you need to clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/XCarCedo/conway-game-of-life.git
cd conway-game-of-life

Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then run main.py

python main.py

Features

• Toggle running process by pressing space
• Clear the board by pressing c
• Save/load your board state by ctrl+s/ctrl+running
• Pass command line arguments to customize the board and other things

Command-line Arguments

Conway's Game of Life

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FPS, --fps FPS     The locked framerate of display window (0 for no limits)
  -s SCREEN_SIZE, --screen-size SCREEN_SIZE
                        The size of display screen
  -etm EVOULATE_TIMER_MS, --evoulate-timer-ms EVOULATE_TIMER_MS
                        The time between each evoulate progress
  -cs CELL_SIZE, --cell-size CELL_SIZE
                        The size of each cell (automatically divides the display based on this value)

Screenshots

Known Bugs and Issues

• The program memory usage goes up about 2-5mb every time loading a new state by ctrl+r and this keeps adding up until the program closed
• Edges don't work correctly sometimes edge cells on right side glitch to left side

Contributing

This project isn't perfect there are still problems that i'm aware of, so Issues/PR are welcome!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.