| Game: Alive II |
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Created by Karl Scherer, 2000-07-07
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3 variants
Educational
Solitaire
download 32 K
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Updated 2003-08-16
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This is a game using 'cellular automatons' similar to the one in the Zillions game 'Alive'. (3 variants)
The following text assumes that you are familiar with 'Alive'.
In 'Alive II', each cell goes through several stages.
These stages can be compared with youth (yellow cells), adult stage (red cells), old age (blue cells), and dead stage (invisible).
A cell moves from one stage to the next if it has the correct number of alive neighboring cells. Otherwise it stays in its stage.
Y-Buttons: 'Y' advances a cell's stage.
A few additional buttons are for the convenience to trigger several buttons simultaneously:
Row of coloured buttons: Click a colour to reset a whole column to 'Y' or blank.
Numbers of neighbors: Click to reset a whole row to 'Y' or blank.
Click the left, right, up, down buttons to shift the pattern.
You can click the board to edit it.
Click the coloured button at the lower right to change the paint colour.
Click 'Paint Rectangle' to paint or clear(!) a rectangular area on the board; mark it by clicking top left and bottom right corners of the rectangle. You can paint several rectangles in a row, and you can change the paint colour in between.
Click 'Paint Rectangle' again to switch this mode off.
The 'Border' option determines whether the area outside the board is treated as wrapping around (north and south border joined, east and west border joined), or as permanent, living cells ('solid') or as permanently empty.
Variant 2: In this 'develop or regress' variant cells with the wrong number of neighbors go back one stage.
Variant 3: In this 'develop or die' variant cells with the wrong number of neighbors die.
Version 2.0: Wrapped border option introduced. Wrapped border is now default. '30' button and 'oo' = 'run forever' option added.
If this game reminds you of Conway's Game of Life, then this is because both use the idea of cellular automata, which is a branch of information science. The Game of Life is a very special automaton. Alive II gives you many more choices than just one automaton.
Note: Zillions Version 2.0 or higher recommended. Otherwise very large rectangles (button 'Paint Rectangle') are not properly drawn.
For more freeware as well as real puzzles and games see my home page http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz.
You will also find there a very sophisticated version of Alive with about 100 options. |
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