Tried to play on linux and was hit with this error before being able to actually run it.
jon@Jonny-PC:~/Downloads$ chmod +x game-of-life-linux jon@Jonny-PC:~/Downloads$ ./game-of-life-linux ./game-of-life-linux: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by ./game-of-life-linux)
Adding the switch -static-libstdc++ to your compile command (assuming g++) will statically link the C++ standard library to avoid this on other systems.