Conway's Game of Life in C

This project is a implementation of Conway's Game of Life in C. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It's a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. Despite its simplicity, the Game of Life is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding C semantics
• Implementing algorithms to simulate cellular automata
• memory management and dynamic data structures
• Understanding of the compilation and linking phases in C

How the Game of life looks like

The no player game

If you want to try out the simulation

• Download

gameOfLife.zip

• Download, extract and run the main.exe file
• This might throw out some warnings!

If you want to try this out!

To run the program, you'll need:

• A C compiler
• SDL2 library and development files
• SDL2_ttf library and development files