jfgreen / gameoflife-termbox

An interactive terminal implementation of Conway's Game of Life.

Game Of Life - Termbox

Yet another Go implementation of Conway's Game of Life. Mostly an excuse to learn and practise the language but also to test out Termbox Go.

Running

To start a randomly initialised game:

go run main.go

To load and run a particular pattern, specify a path to a valid Life 1.6 file:

go run main.go -file pattern.lif

The Game Of Life Wiki has a collection of 3000+ patterns in this format.

Command line flags

  -alive string
    	Character to use to render alive cells. (default "●")
  -file string
    	Path of pattern file to initialise game with. Takes precedence over --seed.
  -fps int
    	Frames per second. (default 10)
  -log string
    	Path of logfile to write debugging messages to. (default "/dev/null")
  -seed int
    	Seed to be used in initialisation of random life.

Controls

• Spacebar to pause/unpause.
• Mouse click to toggle cell (if your terminal supports it).
• R to restart game.
• Q or CTRL-C to exit.

Running tests

go test github.com/jfgreen/gameoflife-termbox/game

Performance

Can run a bit slow on on large terminals, your millage may vary.