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An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Rust using Piston

Game of Life Build Status

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Rust using Piston.

Build Instructions

cargo build

Game Instructions

screenshot

When the game starts up, you click on areas with your mouse where you'd like cells to appear. When you've finished making cells, hit either the return key or the p key to watch the game run. Both of these keys may be used to pause the game. If you'd like to restart the game, press r.

Contribute

I'd appreciate any contributions, especially for fixing bugs and improving the UI. Contributions target the latest stable version of Rust (1.15 at the time of writing).

Credits

  • Arcterus (this entire project)
  • MagentaCompanion (the original thndr of making the Game of Life in Java)
  • Indiv0 (updates and Cargo support)

License

Copyright (C) 2014-2017 by Alex Lyon (Arcterus).
This project is licensed under the MPL v2.0. See LICENSE for more details.