Conways-Game-Of-Life

Rules for Conway's Game of Life

1. Cells that are alive must have 2-3 neighbors to stay alive

2. Cells that have less than 2 neighbors dies

3. Cells with more than 3 neighbors dies

True = live cell (Black)

Fals = dead cell (White)

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Installing Pygame

Pygame is a game library made for pyhton. To install you must have python and pip installed and used the command pip install pygame

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To Start Game

In the command line use python game_of_life.py and the pygame window will pop up.

Playing the game

To exit press X on the top right of the screen, in future updates will inculed the ability to change the game window size and allow it to minimize. When user press r a random grid will appear and will run when Let's Us Live button.

Let us live = Start game Chosen Life = Pre-set grid will run Random Color = Will change the color randomly Speed Up Life = Changes the frames per second from 5 to 1000 miliseconds Resume Life = Will continue the fps at 5 miliseconds and continued when paused. Restart Life = Resets the grid to the begining Pause Life = Will stop the game loop until you reset or resume game.

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Making Changes and File Structure

The game is ran in the file game_of_life.py. This file contains the game loop and to eddit the buttons and their fucnctionality, grid position, and sets the state.

The state of the buttons: Buttons will apear in specific state which is passed in when the Button class is made on game_of_life.py -Setting: The pre game grid and akkiws the user the to click the grid and create shapes. -Running: When game is started the state is changed to running. -Forward: Speed will increase until the resume or rest is clicked -Random_Color: Will generate random colors and when another button is pushed the state will refresh to running and the colors will continue until reset -Pause: Game play will stop -Selected: Will generate a grid created on game_window_class.py file

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The Grid

The grid: This is a python class on game_window_class.py you can add rows and change the height and width here. Before the game loop the varible game_window is created. This allows you to set where in the pygame window you would lik the grid to be set.

Grid Cells: The individual alive "cells" in the game are individual boxes that are set into the grind in game_window_class.py as the self.grid. If you would like to change the cells the cell_class.py has the sized of the cell so it can be adujusted as long as the grid and the functions mouse_on_grid and click_cell are adjusted to the new dimentions.