Conway's Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life comes to Playdate.

Invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970, the Game of Life is a cellular automaton — a simulation where cells on a grid live or die each generation based on four simple rules. Too few neighbours and a cell dies of loneliness. Too many and it dies of overcrowding. Exactly three neighbours around an empty space and new life is born. That's it. Four rules. And from those four rules emerges something almost alive — gliders that travel across the grid forever, oscillators that pulse like a heartbeat, entire civilizations that rise and collapse within seconds.

Learn more about Conway's Game of Life →

There are no goals. No score. No enemies. Just you, the crank, and an infinite grid of possibilities.

Oh, and your dad is there too. Watching. Commenting on everything.

He has a lot to say.

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Features:

- Classic Conway's Game of Life simulation on the Playdate screen

- Draw cells freely with the d-pad and A button

- Crank to adjust simulation speed, or step through generations manually while paused

- Presets to get started: Random and Blank

- A dad joke commentator who reacts to what happens on the grid

- Hidden collectible content for the curious

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