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by broken_form
July 29th, 2017, 12:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL
Replies: 9
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Re: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL

That should be a menu screen - not implemented yet. Afraid I'm on vacation now, with intermittent mobile Internet only, so I probably won't be updating it mutilate next week.

I was thinking of having it so you could skip ahead once you'd beaten a level once. It's only Javascript but I tthink this ...
by broken_form
July 25th, 2017, 5:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL
Replies: 9
Views: 4813

Re: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL

The game is as 'zoomed out' as I could get and still have it not run like a pig on my cheap prepay phone - that's my low-end target there. 192x192 grid. I think computers are good enough these days that why go any smaller? Of course it screams on my new touchscreen i7 laptop, but that can't be THE ...
by broken_form
July 24th, 2017, 5:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL
Replies: 9
Views: 4813

Re: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL

That one is really nice, actually. Appreciate it.

As far as random explosions, if you try the game you'll see it's basically all about that. Where to hit Max to stop it growing? Or a flotilla of LWSS? I just think someone might want to know why the gliders glide, why the.blocks just sit there, and ...
by broken_form
July 24th, 2017, 3:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL
Replies: 9
Views: 4813

Re: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL

I did see the LifiWiki version as well as the Wikipedia one. It just seems like a tough sell to the sort of person who didn't grow up reading Martin Gardner collections. Yes, pictures of the rules in action would definitely help. Like, this is a block, this is a blinker, this is a glider, right up ...
by broken_form
July 23rd, 2017, 8:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL
Replies: 9
Views: 4813

Game project - seek good 'intro' page for CGOL

Dear all,

I was looking for a really good page to explain Conway's LIFE to an absolute beginner. I've been over the links in the sticky thread: the math.com one would be nicely illustrative, but is littered with the residue of broken applets. Or maybe not broken, but browsers have moved on. The ...