Game of Lives for Palm by Tapani Raiko

Game of Lives (v1.1, 28 kb) is a public domain game for PalmOS.
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.

Installation

Select the appropriate lives_?bit.prc (8bit for colour devices and so on). That is the only file you need to install.
Uninstallation is simple: just delete the program and it will go away. The game takes about 15kb of your valuable space...

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
	future	Bigger board, more AI levels, turn indicator, speedup in AI etc.
v1.1	Sep 2, 2002	Separate monochrome version. Increased randomness in level 2.
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)
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