petsernik / game-of-life

Windows implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Python

Conway's Game of Life

Windows implementation of this game in Python in which you can

• create and run any game configuration
• move around the field
• start/pause the game
• save the current field as a snapshot
• create a custom brush pattern and draw with it (also you can save your patterns)
• change
  • color of brush (different colors are mixed during the game)
  • the scale
  • game speed
• roll back time
• do something else

Now about the controls

control	action
LMB	add/remove a living cell
LMB (holding)	draw a line of living ones
RMB (holding)	movement across the field
Scrolling the mouse wheel	increase/decrease the field
Spacebar	start/pause Conway's game
Left/right arrow	slow down/speed up the game twice
P or MMB	toggle pattern mode on/off
Upper/lower arrow	switch between patterns
R	rotate the pattern 90 degrees clockwise
E or button on the top right	toggle eraser mode on/off
G	toggle grid mode on/off
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0	drawing colors (0 is false: i.e. does not participate in the game)
K , CTRL+K	clear living / false cells
I or button on the top right	inventory with your patterns (the last one opened is used)
CTRL+S or button on the top right	save the field and patterns
CTRL+Z	roll back to the last save
V, B	time travel (note: it's not saved)
H	change the hiding mode of icons (in the field)
ESC	exit the current window (in the field: exit the application)

Notes

This implementation is only for Windows, but it doesn’t seem to take much time to adapt to other platforms.

You can download the EXE file from Releases or run main.py after installing the necessary libraries by this command:

pip install pygame; pip install pypiwin32

I used pyinstaller to create the EXE file by main.spec and following commands:

pip install pyinstaller

pyinstaller -F main.spec

Also just saying that the __parameters__ file is a save file, it is created and then overwritten every time you save.