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by alejandro
October 22nd, 2010, 6:38 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Turning cellular automata into 2 player games
Replies: 3
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Re: Turning cellular automata into 2 player games

I should have seen this when I posted this: http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=540

Can you tell me what these 2+ player variations are called? I'm building my own implementation (see other post) and would like to glean some ideas.

It's kind of an obvious idea, but requires a ...
by alejandro
October 20th, 2010, 1:36 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Game of War - a multiplayer non-automata
Replies: 3
Views: 4252

Re: Game of War - a multiplayer non-automata

These are the rules I'm currently using:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live friendly neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.
2. Any live cell with more than three live friendly neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
3. Any live cell with two or three friendly neighbours lives, unchanged, to ...
by alejandro
October 19th, 2010, 9:57 pm
Forum: Other Cellular Automata
Topic: Game of War - a multiplayer non-automata
Replies: 3
Views: 4252

Game of War - a multiplayer non-automata

Hi,
I'm developing a 2 player game where each player has their own colour of live cells. The rules for squares involving one colour are the same as Life, but there is to be some sort of enemy rule, say, too many enemy neighbours and the square dies). At the moment (in this very early development ...