[HN Gopher] A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game o... ___________________________________________________________________ A competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life Author : Use Score : 65 points Date : 2022-08-20 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lifecompetes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (lifecompetes.com) | JoeDaDude wrote: | There was a game-of-life board game created way back when, The | Immigration Game, which has since been implemented in Golly. | | https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129088/immigration-game | tomrod wrote: | Fun! | | My name keeps changing though. | phito wrote: | That's neat. But don't read the chatbox. | arcastroe wrote: | When the Microsoft Store first came out, I remember they went | around college campuses offering $100 per each app submitted to | the store. This multiplayer version of Conway's game of life is | one of the first apps I implemented and cashed in. I had | previously participated in a hackathon that had us implement this | version of Game of Life, and I thought it'd make a good app. | Sadly, it looks like it's been removed from the store by now. | | P.S. The Microsoft representative didn't seem to have much | confidence in the quality of apps submitted. He sold it to us by | saying that it was just for growth and that they were trying to | catch up to the Apple store, which had already had its period of | growth with "useless Fart apps". He even offered a "whack-a-mole" | style template game that you could re-theme with different images | and submit for $100. | candiddevmike wrote: | Microsoft has a history of being laser focused on petty things | like number of apps or how naming it the Xbox 2 would make it | inferior to the PlayStation 3. If they had instead focused that | energy towards quality, who knows what might happen. | Malazath wrote: | As a consumer (SO's perspective) even as a PS-biased player, | she feels as if the Xbox 360's naming was enough to | potentially sway her. | | Maybe there's a reason, even if we're not fans. | kleer001 wrote: | ooh, that's fun! though it'd be more fun to know the rules, esp | about when users cells collide | rawling wrote: | There is a rules tab! | | And the code looks to be here: | https://github.com/drewblaisdell/conway/blob/master/core/gri... | | It's 8 years old! | Someone wrote: | It seems the rules and _getDominantNeighbor_ assume it's a | two player game. With more than two players, all 3 'parents' | of a to-be-born cell may be from different teams. | dom96 wrote: | Really fun, but laggy and eventually it failed to place blocks. | yujhtheyujh wrote: | excellent! You crashed the server. | RickHull wrote: | Check out https://github.com/rickhull/conway_deathmatch for a | simple ruby implementation. Also there is an elixir branch... | [deleted] | genjipress wrote: | On a vaguely related note, I created a video game that is | essentially a shoot-em-up version of Conway's Game Of Life: | https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid | SpaceManNabs wrote: | cool. i just found this neato so sharing. | | this pattern is stable | | 0 X 0 | | X 0 X | | X 0 X | | 0 X 0 | | let's get quickly to get 30 to if you can stay isolated and build | up blocks, and it only uses 6 initial. | | apparently this is pretty common! | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59573414/how-to-escape-s... | can16358p wrote: | Stuck at connecting forever. | | Can someone who could get it to work give a cue about what's | going on? | Use wrote: | It's probably overloaded. Maybe anyone who's in can count how | many people are playing? | yujhtheyujh wrote: | Hi! this is an old player from lifecompetes. I think this just | nearly killed the site. Anyways, you can place some patterns from | https://conwaylife.com/wiki/, and placing patterns from | https://conwaylife.com/wiki/List_of_long-lived_methuselahs will | not work well because the site is bounded in an 50x100 grid, | where they do not get to live that long. I would suggest you to | check out https://conwaylife.com/wiki/ or | https://catagolue.hatsya.com/census/b3s23/C1 to learn more about | conway's game of life. | dom96 wrote: | It would be interesting to create this on a larger grid, I | wonder what the technical limitations for this are. | happytoexplain wrote: | Awesome. Is there a collection of GoL implementations? It would | be impossible to be exhaustive, but I've been collecting them and | I'd love a resource that makes an attempt to document as many as | possible. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-20 23:00 UTC)