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The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is played on a 2D grid filled with cells.

If you are unfamiliar with this you can read below or click on this link.

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

To play this version you have to clone the repository in a folder of your choosing. After that open the solution file and run the project. Upon starting you have to type the name of the pattern you want to see.

There are 3 common patterns know as:

• Still lifes: These patterns do not change from one generation to the next. Common patterns are the Block, Beehive, Tub and many others.

• Oscillators: After a finite number of generations these patterns return to their initial state. Popular ones are Blinker, Beacon and Toad. The listed ones have a period of 2 meaning that after two generations they return to the initial state.

• Spaceships: Flying across the grid these patterns return to their initial configuration after a different number of ticks. Common spaceships are Glider, Lightweight spaceships, Middleweight spaceships and Heavyweight spaceships.

Here is a gif of the Toad pattern perfectly flopping on the screen.

When it comes to bonuses we have them all!

• A brand new pattern : Glasses (made by me!)

• Different game modes and altered set of rules - Coming soon!

• Bonus 1: Zombies!
  Upon answering the prompt with "Yes" you enter the Zombies game mode. In this mode every dead cell has a 10% chance to respawn as a live one. Now dead generations can come to life again with a bit of luck!