The game of life

Inspiration

It was a project that we thought it could be fun for our first hackathon together and not hard enough to get so stressed we give up.

What it does

It simulates the game of life, reporting real time statistics.

How we built it

With love and C++. Using SFML to display the graphics.

Challenges we ran into

We had to learn SFML from zero. It was challenging but the results are really good (at least for us :) ). We also had to make parts of the code parallel because of performance issues (fps went on vacation).

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building the whole app from scratch.

What we learned

Mainly SFML, but also how to merge SFML and parallelism. Also printing plot generated with gnuplot in real time within the game window.

What's next for The game of life

Add some extra features like different classes of entities that compete with each other or different sets of rules.

Built With

• c
• c++
• gnuplot