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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I think the info below might be outdated...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

Table Name: users

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

Table Name: history

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

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start