https://github.com/matjam/amazing

a game of life simulator written in Go using ebiten
https://github.com/matjam/amazing

ebiten go golang

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a game of life simulator written in Go using ebiten

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/matjam/amazing
• Owner: matjam
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-09-15T04:45:00.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-16T02:11:48.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-28T23:57:43.060Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: ebiten, go, golang
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# amazing

A game of life simulator written in Go, using ebiten.

![Animation](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/578676/133537968-7bd38b7e-8140-4148-a67c-a7462522727f.gif)

## Building

1. Install msys2 using chocolatey.

2. Open a msys2 shell. Install the development packages

```bash

pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

```

3. Install the go compiler using msys2 or chocolatey, it doesn't matter. Make sure it's in your path and make sure gcc

   from msys2 is in your path too.

`go run cmd/amazing/main.go`

## Keyboard

* **F1** Randomize

* **F2** Clear the screen

* **SPACE** pause

* **ESC** quit

## Mouse

You can click around anywhere and add more live cells to the simulation. Right click will remove cells.

## Motivation

This was really just a thing to do to test Ebiten and go. I wanted to see how well it could handle just dumbly drawing all of the pixels every frame. It does pretty well!