GOLKIA

szieberth-adam 2020-04-20 02:06

The following features will be added for post-mortem:

- Zoom with mouse wheel - Increase and decrease the size of the life/dead brush - Speed up and slow down - Make the whole world life or dead with one key

Most of these are not very hard to add. Zooming is the toughest and I am a little disappointed that I was unable to finish it for the deadline.

Despite the lovely support by my wife, my time was limited for this event. However, I really enjoyed it.

The game is calculated by a shader. This is the first time GPU programming for me and I am very satisfied with the result.

Expect a timelapse video soon.

szieberth-adam 2020-04-20 03:37

And it is here:

https://youtu.be/IYrPcA63Jts

chertkov 2020-04-20 09:38

John Conway would love it.

ben657 2020-04-20 10:25

About the only thing I was going to say was it would be nice to be able to zoom. But you've thought of that aready, love it!

thermacon 2020-04-20 15:10

It looks like an amazing game, but the MacOS app is not working. Not sure what the issue is. Knowing Apple, it's probably not your fault. Good work though!

szieberth-adam 2020-04-20 15:28

Thanks for the kind feedback.

I do not own a Mac myself. I followed the build instructions but could not test it working. If you really intend to try it, you can download the LÖVE Application bundle (https://love2d.org/#download) and drop the .love file on it. That might work.

Expect more features within some day.

harry-alissavakis 2020-04-20 17:27

An awesome implementation of the game of life and a wonderful tribute to JHC. Great job =]

selftitled 2020-04-21 17:43

I love game of life, R.I.P John Conway :'( good implementation. I'd like a zoom but you've already identified that. It might be cool if you could alter the rules at run time to see how it affect the sim.

rokevicius 2020-04-23 20:39

Love it, Game of Life ;)

szieberth-adam 2020-04-24 11:19

**UPDATE!** Post compo version is out on [itch.io](https://sza.itch.io/golkia-ld46). A lot of features has been added which I originally planned.

schizoinside 2020-04-24 16:43

Nice mood about survival in so simple life game. Its so sensitive. Make a mess with mouse is awesome)

Dont play Life-style games so long! Thank you! And additional thanks for opening LOVE engine!

szieberth-adam 2020-04-24 21:38

**UPDATE!** A gameplay video of the post compo version is up on [itch.io](https://sza.itch.io/golkia-ld46).

m8rix 2020-04-25 09:27

Beautiful entry. Actually really relaxing.

kevinworkman 2020-04-26 20:49

From one Game of Life fan to another, this is great. Most Game of Life implementations throw too many buttons and dials at the user. I like the simplicity here- sit back and appreciate the beauty of [emergence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence). I also love that you used this as an excuse to try something new (GPU programming), and that you gave your wife a shout-out. This whole entry made me quite happy.

baturinsky 2020-04-26 23:19

First, if you want it to look more pretty, experiment with colors and/or other life-like algorithms, like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVVyjIbypwM

Second, very neat source and it's a great idea to use OpenGL for that. I'm a big fan of GPGPU myself, but did not know tht there is already a WebGL GOL.

szieberth-adam 2020-04-26 23:43

@baturinsky Thanks for the link! Make the player able to change the rules is on my TODO. Seeing this video, colorfulization is now as well. :)

rafa-braga 2020-04-28 05:27

I don´t think that i understund what im suposed to do in this game. But the art is good, the mood are nice and the theme fits, well done :)

szieberth-adam 2020-04-28 15:32

@rafa-braga It is a [Game of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) a sandbox. There are no objectives.

nihushu 2020-04-29 23:28

Really interesting experience :D

doot 2020-05-01 22:08

Great job! The compo version is a very simple, the presentation is clear and the game is intriguing.

esenti 2020-05-07 18:03

This is great!

boaz 2020-05-08 06:45

Love it