Multiplayer Game of Life

This modification of the Game of Life (GoL) was born in the honor of recently passed away John Conway, as well as the main topic of 2 day ETB Hackathon. The rules were adopted from the original GoL, with an additional twist that made the game competitive - the cells now need to have an owner.

Main goals

Essentially, there are two main goals a player needs to prioritize over in order to win the match of GoL:

• Devise a way to expand into the space provided as widely as possible
• Stay alive for the longest period of time (generations)

Technology stack

The implementation is a Frankenstein relying on several packages/programming languages:

• JS / Jinja templates for the front-end (web-app) and single-player visualization
• Python with Flask + SQLAlchemy for the backend
• Bokeh for the multiplayer visualization

How to run

Provided all the requirements are satisfied:

• python src/servlet.py
• hit the localhost/generate endpoint to generate opponents with random starting configurations
• go to Input tab, create your board, submit
• go to Boards tab, and select who you'd like to play against
• hit Play match
• go to Games tab to find out who won & watch the game animation

Appendix

I think the info below might be outdated...

db schema

Table Name: games

Column Name, Type: boardID int pkey username varchar 50
subBoardSize int boardSize int boardRank int EG double

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Table Name: users

Column Name, Type: userID int pkey username varchar 50 index hashedPass varchar 100 ? boardList JSON TODO decide?

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Table Name: history

Column Name, Type: matchID int pkey boardSize int subBoardSize int boardList JSON (boardID, EG, AG)

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