Wireworld Game Idea

[Hunting]

I'm thinking about make a GAME using Wireworld.

Here's the idea:

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x = 110, y = 54, rule = WireWorld
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Player should run the game pattern quickly in Golly, which give the "screen" enough time to refresh and show the next frame.

Using the Controller: While RUNNING the pattern, player should replace the WHITE cell shown in the above pattern to BLUE cell, to execute an action.

[Hunting]

I want to make this game.

There's a blue rectangle and a single black dot on the screen. (In this Wireworld representation of this game, instead of just displaying black dot, we inverse the color of the cell which is the dot location.) When Black dot is on the blue rectangle, that rectangle moves to left; Else, it moves to right.

Some circle will spawn every 2 seconds in a random position. If the black dot is on the circle, and ENTER was executed, then you get a point, and then that circle disappear.

There's two red trap on the left and right of the screen. If the blue rectangle hits it, then it is GAME OVER.

You can control the black dot with UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT action.

Object Texture
There's 4 object in the game: Blue Rectangle(Bar), Black Dot(Cursor), Bonus Circle(Collect), Red Trap.

Here's the Bar displayed on the screen.

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x = 62, y = 55, rule = WireWorld
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And it can be coded like this:

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x = 160, y = 1, rule = WireWorld
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[blah]

So the entire screen would refresh once every 2^n generations, so that hashlife with a given step size and alignment would match the refresh rate?

Also, programming a game for this kind of design is trivial in comparison to the rest of the work, namely constructing a computer (+ peripherals) and writing an assembler/compiler for it. There is obviously already a computer in Wireworld, though I doubt it would be all that adaptable to this idea.

And are you aware of this? Why use Wireworld? Why not any other circuit simulator? What's the exact goal here? Why even make a new computer at all, when the QFT computer could probably be programmed to run this game anyway (It even has a javascript emulator)?

[Hunting]

So the entire screen would refresh once every 2^n generations, so that hashlife with a given step size and alignment would match the refresh rate?

Also, programming a game for this kind of design is trivial in comparison to the rest of the work, namely constructing a computer (+ peripherals) and writing an assembler/compiler for it. There is obviously already a computer in Wireworld, though I doubt it would be all that adaptable to this idea.

And are you aware of this? Why use Wireworld? Why not any other circuit simulator? What's the exact goal here? Why even make a new computer at all, when the QFT computer could probably be programmed to run this game anyway (It even has a javascript emulator)?

For the first paragraph: That's right.

For the second paragraph: Actually, I don't think it trivial, at least for me. It's a challenge. I've never completed things like this in Wireworld like this. By the way, I know there's a computer in Wireworld, however,

For the third paragraph, I think Wireworld is just cooler.

Last of all, I want to build a Wireworld Machine specially for my game, NOT the trivial and simple "programmed computer" idea.

[Hunting]

Or, it has a very different and creative structure than the universal computer.
Because build a new structure will make it cool.

[Freywa]

And are you aware of this? Why use Wireworld? Why not any other circuit simulator? What's the exact goal here? Why even make a new computer at all, when the QFT computer could probably be programmed to run this game anyway (It even has a javascript emulator)?

With Conway's Life you have to deal with glider/LWSS timing issues, reflector and conduit space, etc. – which makes things very large. Those problems are much simplified with those CAs that veer closer to logic, like Wireworld and my modern variation of it.

[Hunting]

my modern variation of it.

Yeah, that thing is cool.

[Freywa]

Yeah, that thing is cool.

I don't consider my rule "cool", merely "modernised". The principal motivation behind my rule is to pack more data into a smaller space, in particular making logic gates out of wire configurations rather than the three-electron-annihilator rule of vanilla Wireworld, thus allowing very small 4-tick devices. You might want to try it out.

[Hunting]

Yeah, that thing is cool.

I don't consider my rule "cool", merely "modernised". The principal motivation behind my rule is to pack more data into a smaller space, in particular making logic gates out of wire configurations rather than the three-electron-annihilator rule of vanilla Wireworld, thus allowing very small 4-tick devices. You might want to try it out.

Tried!