game-life

Customizable Conway's "Game of life" cellular automat generator

Content

• Features
• Install
• Usage
• API

Features ✨

• Easy to use
• Work with canvas element (cooming soon with DOM)
• No dependencies
• Scalable performance
• Made with love <3

Install 🐱‍💻

There are 2 ways to install it in your project:

1. Install npm package (ES6 Import)

npm install game-life

2. Or add Script CDN

<script crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://unpkg.com/game-life@1.2.0-b/umd/gamelife.min.js"></script>

Usage 💡

Depending on how you installed, there are two ways to use it:

1. ES6 Import

import GameLife from 'game-life'
const canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');

const game = GameLife(canvas);

2. or with script CDN

const canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');

const game = GameLife(canvas);

Result:

How to use

• Drag to explore the board
• Double click to spawn/kill cells
• Mouse wheel to zoom in/out
• Enter to start/pause evolution
• +/- keys to speed up/down

You can also pass a default config to the game:

const game = GameLife(canvas, {
    graphics: {
        board: {width: 1900, height: 800},
        colors: {background: '#FFFFFF', grid: '#E0E0E0'},
        cells: {size: 20}
    },
    game: {delay: 1000}
});

Result:

Manual actions

const game = GameLife(canvas)

game.bornCell({x: 10, t: 10}) // Spawn cell
game.killCell({x: 10, y: 10}) // Kill cell
game.startEvolution()         // Start 
game.stopEvolution()          // Stop
game.speedUp(1.5)             // Speed up 1.5x
game.speedDown(0.8)           // Speed down 0.8x
game.graphics.setConfig({     // Change graphics config
    colors: {background: '#F0F0F0', cell: '#000000'}
})
// and more

API 👩‍💻

Cooming soon... 🚧