https://github.com/sv443/conways-clife

Conway's Game of Life in the Command Line Interface. Has a live editor and a bunch of presets.
https://github.com/sv443/conways-clife

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Conway's Game of Life in the Command Line Interface. Has a live editor and a bunch of presets.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sv443/conways-clife
• Owner: Sv443
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-06-01T21:25:29.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-22T15:28:21.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-14T12:53:14.659Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: cli, command-line, command-line-game, conway-game, conways-game-of-life, game, game-of-life, javascript, js
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 197 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: changelog.txt
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Conways Game of CLIfe

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[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/565933531214118942)](https://sv443.net/discord)  

[![preview](./clife_preview.gif)](#readme)



## Info:

Conway's Game of Life in the Command Line Interface.  

Features a bunch of premade presets, a random generator and an editor to create your own presets.  

I strongly recommend using CMD, Git Bash or zsh to run this since it renders better than other terminal apps.  

### This game is part of my [CLI Games Collection](https://github.com/Sv443/CLI-Games-Collection)

### You can download a standalone version here: [![(click)](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/Sv443/Conways-CLIfe.svg)](https://github.com/Sv443/Conways-CLIfe/releases)




## Steps to build:

1. Have Node.js and npm installed (I recommend the latest v14)

2. Download or clone the repo and open a terminal in the downloaded folder

3. Install dependencies by running the command `npm i` in the terminal

4. Run the command `npm run build` to build the executables (they will be located in the `dist` folder)




## Rules of Conway's game of life:

|   |   |

| --- | --- |

| Births | Each dead cell adjacent to exactly three live neighbors will become live in the next generation. |

| Death by isolation | Each live cell with one or fewer live neighbors will die in the next generation. |

| Death by overcrowding | Each live cell with four or more live neighbors will die in the next generation. |

| Survival | Each live cell with either two or three live neighbors will remain alive for the next generation. |




## Dependencies:

- [fs-extra](https://npmjs.com/package/fs-extra)

- [keypress](https://npmjs.com/package/keypress)

- [perlin-noise](https://npmjs.com/package/perlin-noise)

- [svjsl](https://npmjs.com/package/svjsl)

- [unzipper](https://npmjs.com/package/unzipper)