Welcome to Conway 2 Player, a strategic game based off of John Conway's Game of Life.
The game is played on a rectangular board of arbitrary dimensions. Each square on a board can be one of three things: an alive blue cell, an alive red cell, or a dead cell. You are playing as Team Blue and your goal is to reach a state where 80% of the alive cells are team blue. If 80% of the alive cells become team red, the game is lost.
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Each board iteration, you (team blue) get to choose one dead cell (by clicking/tapping on it) to become an alive cell on team blue. Afterwards, your opponent (team red) will become an alive cell on team red. Then, the next generation will be computed. We use the following rules to determine if each cell lives on or dies in the next generation:
- Any alive cell that has 1 or 0 live neighbors will be dead in the next round due to overpopulation
- Any alive cell that has 2 or 3 live neighbors will continue to live into the next round.
- Any dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors will become alive in the next round. The new alive cell will be on the same team as the majority of its parents; so if it has 2 or 3 blue parents it will be on team blue, and if it has 2 or 3 red parents it will be on team red.
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This game was programmed by Arthur Zarins and Ribhu Hooja.
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