ConwayLife.com

I made a Conway's game of life-themed game. Am I allowed to advertize it here?
Edit: I am. The game supports Chrome and firefox and the link is http://on-top-of-cgol.herokuapp.com/
Edit 2: the old host doesn't support free plans anymore. New link: https://on-top-of-cgol.glitch.me/

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 6:15 am

I made a Conway's game of life-themed game. Am I allowed to advertize it here?

First of all, welcome to the forums!
You certainly can. Is there a link to it?

The link is http://on-top-of-cgol.herokuapp.com/
It supports chrome and firefox

Edit: this reply is unnecessary because I also edited the post. Staf, feel free to delete.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 6:27 am

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 6:15 am

I made a Conway's game of life-themed game. Am I allowed to advertize it here?

First of all, welcome to the forums!
You certainly can. Is there a link to it?

I edited the post, now there's a link

Before I start the game, is it multiplayer or something?

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:24 am

Before I start the game, is it multiplayer or something?

yes, you need atleast 2 people to play it

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:30 am

yes, you need atleast 2 people to play it

Is it online?

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:31 am

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:30 am

yes, you need atleast 2 people to play it

Is it online?

yes, there's currently a game going on though

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:34 am

yes, there's currently a game going on though

Do I have to wait for it to end? I tried joining it and pressing c does nothing.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:42 am

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 7:34 am

yes, there's currently a game going on though

Do I have to wait for it to end? I tried joining it and pressing c does nothing.

When you are not playing, pressing c returns you to somwehere near the middle of the grid, it only does something after you moved a bit with the arrow keys.

You do have to wait for the game to end, but you can join the queue by pressing q

I think I might have found a bug. The cell you're on doesn't count towards the neighbour count or doesn't evolve. I'm not sure which.
Edit: Pressing enter freezes the game.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 1:42 pm

I think I might have found a bug. The cell you're on doesn't count towards the neighbour count or doesn't evolve. I'm not sure which.
Edit: Pressing enter freezes the game.

I calculate the cells seperately from the players, so i think that bug is not possible. However, if the cell you are on dies, you survive if you move away the next turn.

About enter freezing the game, the timer doesn't update anymore if you press enter. However, that can indeed be confusing.

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 2:03 pm

I calculate the cells seperately from the players, so i think that bug is not possible. However, if the cell you are on dies, you survive if you move away the next turn.

About enter freezing the game, the timer doesn't update anymore if you press enter. However, that can indeed be confusing.

Yes, the "bug" is totally normal and was caused by a game mechanic I hadn't completely understood yet. About the freeze, cells I place down don't become white cells either.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 2:05 pm

conjurer wrote: ↑

January 30th, 2021, 2:03 pm

I calculate the cells seperately from the players, so i think that bug is not possible. However, if the cell you are on dies, you survive if you move away the next turn.

About enter freezing the game, the timer doesn't update anymore if you press enter. However, that can indeed be confusing.

Yes, the "bug" is totally normal and was caused by a game mechanic I hadn't completely understood yet. About the freeze, cells I place down don't become white cells either.

That's probably because the game waits for the other player to submit their action, too

How am I doing?

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 10:53 am

How am I doing?

I think that was the longest game I ever had. I can't compare you to others.
Sadly, the host thought the app was idling and shut down the server. If you know a better free server host, tell me.

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 11:47 am

I think that was the longest game I ever had. I can't compare you to others.
Sadly, the host thought the app was idling and shut down the server. If you know a better free server host, tell me.

That's too bad. I'm ready to play again. Did you catch what I was trying to do?

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 11:49 am

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 11:47 am

I think that was the longest game I ever had. I can't compare you to others.
Sadly, the host thought the app was idling and shut down the server. If you know a better free server host, tell me.

That's too bad. I'm ready to play again. Did you catch what I was trying to do?

you tried to build a gosper glider gun

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 11:51 am

you tried to build a gosper glider gun

This time I made it.
Edit: Good game.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:01 pm

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 11:51 am

you tried to build a gosper glider gun

This time I made it.
Edit: Good game.

finally we finished a game the way I intended it to work

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:18 pm

finally we finished a game the way I intended it to work

Yes. Two things:
1) I think my Gosper glider gun actually helped you because you could jump from glider to glider towards my home point.
2) How do you gain blocks? I realized that I was gaining some as I was constructing the GGG.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:21 pm

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:18 pm

finally we finished a game the way I intended it to work

Yes. Two things:
1) I think my Gosper glider gun actually helped you because you could jump from glider to glider towards my home point.
2) How do you gain blocks? I realized that I was gaining some as I was constructing the GGG.

1) yes it did, maybe low period guns are better in this game
2)You gain half a block every turn

Thanks for your patience btw

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:24 pm

1) yes it did, maybe low period guns are better in this game
2)You gain half a block every turn

But I wasn't gaining any while I was sitting idly on one of the queen bees' supporting blocks.

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:24 pm

Thanks for your patience btw

No problem. I really did enjoy the game. I will try and make something more complex next.

Schiaparelliorbust wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:27 pm

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:24 pm

1) yes it did, maybe low period guns are better in this game
2)You gain half a block every turn

But I wasn't gaining any while I was sitting idly on one of the queen bees' supporting blocks.

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:24 pm

Thanks for your patience btw

No problem. I really did enjoy the game. I will try and make something more complex next.

You don't gain any more blocks after you have 20

conjurer wrote: ↑

February 2nd, 2021, 12:30 pm

You don't gain any more blocks after you have 20

Makes sense. Do you think you could make a 3 or 4-player version of the game or would the host not allow that? I think that could make it more interesting and fast-paced.