Game of Lives for Palm by Tapani Raiko

Game of Lives (v1.0, 10 kb) is a public domain game for PalmOS (v3.5 and up?) with 8-bit colours.
No warranty. Play against your Palm!

What is Game of Lives?

Game of Lives is a two player variant of the famous Game of Life.
Do you know Game of Life?
Yes Players place cells on the board trying to get twice the number of cells as the opponent. At some points, Game of Life iterations are made. Colour of a born cell is derived from the majority rule but otherwise the rules of Game of Life apply.
No You can find the rules below. They might seem complicated, in which case you may wish to first take a look at the original zero player game.

Rules

The order of moves is the following: First Red and Yellow player alternately get 5 moves each. Then the sequence (Life, Yellow, Red, Life, Red, Yellow) is repeated until the winning player gets 2/3 of all living cells after the life step. If the board gets empty, the game ends in a draw.

The moves of the two players are to place a cell of one's own colour to an empty point. The Life step corresponds to the rules of the Game of Life. A cell lives if it has 2 or 3 cells in its 8-neighbourhood. A new cell is born in an empty point, if there is exactly 3 cells in the 8-neighbourhood. The colour of the new cells is determined by majority.

Version History

Version Release date Comments
v1.0
 Aug 30, 2002 First release.

Credits

John Conway Invention of the Game of Life
Tapani Raiko Adaptation to 2 players and implementation
Jaakko Peltonen Useful discussions
Sininen Villisika Beta testing

Links

Send comments, questions and even thanks to: atarigo@myrealbox.com
Game of Lives (this page)
What is the Game of Life?
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