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Life is Hard's itch.io pageSource code repo
https://github.com/lynoferraz/riv-life
Main programming language
c
Link to RIVES.io submission or Cartridge file
https://github.com/lynoferraz/riv-life/releases/download/v0.0.1/life.sqfs
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Genuinely interesting concept. I really like what you said in the reply to the other comment about wanting to generate an interesting "video" to watch. To my mind that seems to fit really well with the rives concept. Good job.
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Cool animation on pressing start! Never thought I'd see competitive game of life, but it makes sense, specially modified like this where each level makes it harder for cells to live. The timer is a little unforgiving for more complicated setups like glider guns, and sometimes the cursor jumps around if I try moving too fast in one direction.
For some reason I was only able to run this game through the browser emulator, trying to launch it from the command line was a non-starter.
Thanks for the feedback!
The end goal was to make a game where the generated 'video' is interesting to watch, but it also fun (and maybe exciting?) to play.
It is a challenge to make the cursor movement smooth. I tried to make the fast option for long distances, maybe I could increase the hold threshold.
If you activate the 'advanced' mode on the emulator site, you could increase the timeout with '-setup-time 1000' in the args. (You can start the simulation anytime by holding A2/X button)
I'll check the command line problem, but I think it could be a rivemu version thing.