PSPLife: Conway's Game Of Life clone

Posted Oct 8, 2006 at 12:27PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Games Tags: IpodLinux, Lights Out
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 PSPLife Beta - Image 2 PSPLife Beta - Image 1


Today we are on hand to dish out yet another homebrew game from a developer brand new to the homebrew scene, Ipodlinux. He has brought us PSPLife today, a homebrew game clone of 'ConwaysGame Of Life' which may remind some of you of the classic electronic handheld game Lights Out. Here's a short explanation of how the game works if you think you have the brainpower to conquer this on your PSP.


The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional grid of cells, each of which is either alive or dead. Cells interact with their eight neighbours, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following effects occur:

  1. Any live cell with fewer than two neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.
  2. Any live cell with more than three neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
  3. Any live cell with two or three neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.
  4. Any dead cell with exactly three neighbours comes to life.
More information on the Game of Life can be found here. Now let's get back to the PSP version; it is in a beta form so you can expect a few bugs to be present in both the GUI and the algorithm. IpodLinux has tested PSPLife on firmware 2.71 using Dark_Alex's HEN C loader, firmware 2.60 with Fanjita and Ditlew's 0.99 eLoader and on the good old 1.5 . We are proud to say that it works perfectly on each. But this homebrew game doesn't end here, IpodLinux has major plans for the future of this game and here are some of the improvements that you can expect to see over the next few weeks:
  • Ability to choose the planet size (right now it's 10x10).
  • Ability to restart.
  • Ability to remove cells.
  • Ability to change the cells during 'game'play.
1.0 binary and 1.5 Kxploited binaries have been included in the download but remember, if you are using Dark_Alex's 2.71 Custom Firmware SE-A you can use either format!

Download: [PSPLife Beta]
Discuss: [Forum release thread]

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by 1st - 2006-10-08 08:06
» 1st

First!!!

by 3rd - 2006-10-08 08:29
» 3rd

3rd

by Kyle M. - 2006-10-08 08:47
» @Stupid commenters

Get a Life.

by zx-81 - 2006-10-08 09:37
» ^^

Keep it up ! :)

by WraithLeader - 2006-10-08 11:07
» @10

This is a newsworthy development as the Game of Life is a very interesting program to any programmer, especially those looking at making emergent AI (AI that can govern themselves without a whole bunch of scripted behavior, like those in Oblivion) and cellular automata.



However, I do find it disappointing that the commentors failed to mention that this game has already been ported and expanded to a full screen version (using all the PSP's pixels) by a Lua coder (I think Lumo, but unsure) in an earlier release of Lua Player.

by ipodlinux - 2006-10-08 16:52
» @12

Oh. Ok. But I'll try to make t fullscreen in the next release.

by - 2006-10-08 20:55
» dude

.

by I hate my life - 2006-10-09 03:17
» PSP nerds

AHHHHHH

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