Each level gives you a goal pattern. Click the cells to create a start pattern, and then click the play button to apply the Game of Life rules. You win when the generated pattern matches the goal.
If you get stuck and don't mind spoilers, then here are the solutions to all of the levels!
Here is the retrospective that talks about the process of creating this game, brainstorming, barking up the wrong tree for 24 hours, almost dropping out, everything I googled, and a timelapse of what the game looked like from start to finish.
Game of Life. Keep it Alive. Could there be a better idea for the theme?!? I really love this kind of puzzle game. I could see myself playing something like this on my phone to pass the time. Great work!
very challenging puzzles! Thanks to your game I learned some new things about game of life, thanks!
It would have been cool to be able to use my keyboard/ OR buttons on the screen, to move all the cells in one direction. and I really would like to know the solution to level 10 haha!
Nice, I was considering doing something inspired by the game of life myself. The hints were definitely needed in my case, I found it very hard to visualise past one generation, but it was fun.
Nice difficult puzzle! One of the better puzzle game. The game would be a fun mobile game if it were easier(I think the game should start out easier). Good job! Keep it up!
This was a good head scratcher. Forced you to work backwards. I don't know that the theme was the strongest but the game was something I could play a lot on a phone/browser and kill my work productivity.
@jonah Thank you for playing! If you made it to level 10, that's really impressive. If you're curious, here are the solutions to all of the levels: https://imgur.com/a/lTWsTRU
I'm shock how hard I found it to work the game of life rules in reverse in my head. Nice idea, and great tribute to the man. You might want to explicitly define when cells die though, if players arn't familiar with game of life they may miss that.
I have counted five Game of Life inspired games on LD46, including mine. And each one is different and interesting in it's own way.
You puzzle is interesting, though a bit too hard for me - I got stuck on 4th. I figured the next-to last step, but not the first one.
You have a small field, instead of effectively infinite one, so most real GOL patters do not work there. Which is not necessarily bad, I guess, but was a minor annoyance for me.
I also liked that you use unusual "hosting" for you game. I also initially considered to just put my game on codepen:)
You should give hints after 2-3 tries, giving them at first error can lead behaviors like "I will get a hint so just press random cells to solve it with hint" Cool try though and brain cracking
Very fun, very challenging, great tribute to John Conway. I'm not smart enough to go past level five, but I'm sure it's possible. I think that normal people may have trouble predicting after 1 generation, though. Really smooth, really well executed. Nice job!
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It would have been cool to be able to use my keyboard/ OR buttons on the screen, to move all the cells in one direction.
and I really would like to know the solution to level 10 haha!
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You puzzle is interesting, though a bit too hard for me - I got stuck on 4th. I figured the next-to last step, but not the first one.
You have a small field, instead of effectively infinite one, so most real GOL patters do not work there. Which is not necessarily bad, I guess, but was a minor annoyance for me.
I also liked that you use unusual "hosting" for you game. I also initially considered to just put my game on codepen:)