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CellFighter
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Version
2.04
This program is an extension of the Game of Life that
transforms the classical Life from an environment for
various experiments into a genuine game with an active
player and a clear goal: rival colonies of virtual
germs wage a war against each other, and you takes
part in this battle in real time as a commander of
your own living army; the playing space can be changed
by inserting various auxiliary objects (sources of
life, stones, food and poison). The colonies' behavior
is highly amusing and unpredictable. Your goal is to
capture control over all this chaos (there is a wide
choice of goals: destroying one colony by adding cells
to another colony; struggle for life, space or food;
suppressing aggressiveness of the enemy life sources ;
and many others). Flexible settings can be adapted for
any selected goal: the program keeps detailed
statistics and uses it to calculate a score according
to adjustable score rules; the colonies growth can be
automatically ceased by an autostop condition defined
by the user; player capabilities can be regulated by
restrictions of input. In addition, the program gives
power to change rules of birth and death that is
greater than in other implementations of Conway's
Life. Thus, CellFighter allows you to construct and
play many various games: each game can have its own
goals (score rules), condition of end (autostop
condition), behavior of artificial life (rules of
birth and death), player capabilities (restrictions of
input) and game environment (extra types of cells). It
is an entire factory of games based on wars between
chaotic swarms of tiny fighters! But this is not all -
the features list can be continued: adjustable colors
and forms of cells; import of patterns written in the
most popular formats of Life files ("picture"
and "point list"); copying the playing field to memory
and restoring it from memory with one press of the
button; adjustable speed of evolution. Test your
capability to act in chaos: download it and enjoy!
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