Show HN: Twitch Plays Conway's Game of Life – Battle Royale Edition (Unity ECS)
twitch.tvTwitch Plays Conway's Game of Life [1] is a multiplayer implementation of Conway's Game of Life [2]
In Twitch Plays Conway's Game of Life, you play by typing commands in the Twitch chat, like in Twitch Plays Pokémon [3]
The basic !ON command turns on cells. The !RLE command lets you enter Run Length Encoded [4] strings to make more complex patterns. You can browse patterns on the Conway Life wiki [5]
A database of 446 patterns (Sir Robin, Gosper Glider Gun, ..) is available with the !PATTERN command, and allows you to make patterns directly from their names (Example: !GLIDER 0,0 # Makes a Glider at the origin)
A slideshow of all 446 patterns (still lifes, oscillators, guns and spaceships) is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XgALyX6w8
There are Youtube [6] and Twitch [7] videos to learn cool patterns and how to use the commands.
TPCGOL has two modes: Sandbox and Battle Royale.
In Sandbox, you create what you want, without any real competition, although it's fun to own the board (a player got 99% ownership for a single generation).
In Battle Royale mode, the rules are similar to Fortnite: join a game with !PLAY, !THANK the bus driver, and try to be the last one to have cells alive as the storm shrinks.
TPCGOL is built with Unity3D's latest upcoming features: Entity Component System (ECS), Burst Compiler and C# Job System
Help for all the commands (except the mystery command yet to be discovered ;-) is at https://bzh314.com/twitch_plays_conway_game_of_life/
Want to make my Life? Go ahead:
- Play at twitch.tv/bzh314 and have fun
- Subscribe to Youtube [6], Follow on Twitch [1] and/or Twitter [8]
- Spend time with your family instead of playing TPCGOL
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[1] https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
[3] https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon
[4] http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded
[5] http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page
[6] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgsdHWWQBMHP1plylPrrgpA
[7] https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314/videos?filter=highlights&sort=t...