GoLife

	GoLife
	File:Golifeds.png
General
Author(s)	Anarch Mario
Type	Simulation
Version	02042007
Licence	Mixed
Links
	[Media:Golife020407ds.zip Download]
	Website

Features

Universe 256x192 cells
Compatible with the format. Lif (loading and saving possible.'s Archive contains hundreds of known patterns to test!)
Select an area
Copy / cut / paste
Symmetries and rotations
Undo
Adjustable speed
Etc..

Installation

Download and extract file
DLDI patch .nds file and copy it with Patterns directory/ to the root directory of the card

Feel free to add more patterns (and create your owns.) If you don't do that, GoLife will display a "Can't open Patterns/ dir" at the beginning and will not be able to load or save anything.

User guide

It is a kind of artificial life simulation with very simple rules but who creates amazing patterns. It is more a scientific stuff than a game: There's life, death, drama, complexity... even sex. And all of that showing in pixel mode.

Pattern can be found here.

Controls

Stylus - draw patterns (start plotting your name and click ">"!)

Arrows - move the zoom entire playing surface

Buttons on the left - relatively intuitive

Bottom - load/save patterns

Scroll buttons with "v" and "^" - place it (click on a name and an area of the screen)

Changelog

Second release - Second week of spring, 2007

New version of PAlib: the code seems to run faster and the font is nicer.
Invisible keyboard bug when saving fixed. (There's now just a little glitch but nothing major.)
Saving optimised: lines with no living cells are writed with only one '.', so it save a few bytes.
Color mode added !
Zoom added !
Patterns updated. Now with 211 cool patterns !
And of course, lot of small buf gix.

First release - First day of spring, 2007

Credits

Coder: Anarcho Mario, from Doom Inc. Science's Dept.

The background is "Tritone" from a certain Nik96.

The Patterns were collected by Dietrich Leithner in 1998 and were made public by Jason Summers in 2002.

Finally, thanks the PAlib team.