What is Game of Life?
Game of Life is a browser-native take on John Conway's classic cellular automaton, rebuilt as four distinct ways to play instead of a single static simulation.
Sandbox is the classic free-draw experience — click to toggle cells, stamp famous patterns like the Glider or Gosper Glider Gun, and watch the automaton evolve at your chosen speed. Survival adds rising entropy: cells randomly decay each generation and you must spend limited reinforcements to keep your colony alive as long as possible. Colony Wars turns Life into a two-species territory battle where newborn cells inherit the majority neighbor color. Predictor is the original mode: you're shown a starting pattern, then asked to hand-draw what it will look like several generations later, scored on accuracy.
How to Play
- Pick a mode: switch between Sandbox, Survival, Colony Wars, and Predictor using the tabs above the grid.
- Interact with the grid: click cells to toggle, stamp patterns, reinforce, or place your colony's color, depending on the mode.
- Play, pause, or step: use the action buttons to run the simulation continuously or one generation at a time.