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As a user, I want to save my patterns and rerun them later.

As a player, I would like the ability to resize the grid, making it more flexible for playing through various starting configurations.

I am thinking about playing here. The nature of Game of Life is an exercise in cellular animation, but I would like to make it enjoyable to play. Below is my current thinking on the control set and some basic configuration options to drive issue creation. This will likely become a list to drive feature development as well.

• Should be able to configure the size of the cells.
• Should be able to hide/show the grid.
• Should be able to select from a set of sprite options.
• Should be able to choose from a color palette rather than a sprite.
• Should have a way to zoom in and pan around beyond the grid for observing long generational runs.
• Would be nice to have a selection of starting patterns that can be selected and loaded into the game. (need to research if there are common patterns out there).
• Should be able to restart from the currently running pattern.
• It would be nice to save and rerun previous games (need to decide if this would be a save and everyone can run, create an account and save, or possibly download a configuration and reload situation).

Currently, multiple robot objects can be placed into a single cell on the grid. Only a single entity should be placable in each cell.

This will only be an issue during game setup. At this time the player will be setting the initial seeds for the game. As this problem is solved it should be considered that we DO want to allow players to remove the entity from an already populated cell. Could this be a good time to handle both at the same time?

As a player, I would like to be able to record my runs and share them with others.

Before moving forward with features, complete a PoC with a basic layout and rules applied.

As a user, I would like to be able to zoom in/out on the game area.

As a user, I want to restart/reset a run anytime. Ideally, I should be able to reload the initial state before tweaking it should I decide to.

As a user, I don't want my runs to be limited to the canvas size. I like the patterns to continue through as many generations as I decide without arbitrary limitations enforced by the canvas size.

As a player, I would like to be able to select different characters to represent living cells during a run. It would be great to have the ability to change the selection and restart a run as well.

As a user, I would like a collection of loadable starting patterns to load and play on the game. It would be nice if these patterns included well-known patterns and possibly some created by other players.

As a player, I would like the ability to remove the grid to better focus on watching the generational changes from my starting pattern.

As a user, I would like to run my patterns with a visual using my selection from a color palette rather than a sprite.