Conway's Game of Life

Yet another implementation of Conway's Game of Life written in C with SDL2

Features

• Infinite grid (until int64_t limit is reached, at least)
• Moving around the grid
• Zoom-in Zoom-out
• Importing custom generations, you can generate them from a matrix with to_coords.py. Example: cat gosper_glider_gun | python to_coords.py O > build/glider_gun
• Automatically exports current generation at exit

Future features:

• Changing settings within the game (generation speed, color, font size, etc)
• Editing the grid within the game
• Import/Export within the game

Compiling

If you're on nixos:

$ nix-shell
$ build

If you're on any other distro:

1. Install SDL2 and SDL2_ttf
2. Make sure that pkg-config recognizes SDL2

After that (from the project's root):

$ export PROJ_ROOT="$(pwd)"
$ export FONT="/path/to/font.ttf" # whichever you want
$ export SDL2TTF="/usr/share" # or wherever SDL2_ttf is installed
$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ ../build.sh # chmod +x build.sh if you can't execute it
# done