CLUSTER GAME-CONWAY-LIFE · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-02-21
Terminal Conway's Game of Life
This cluster comprises terminal-based implementations of Conway's Game of Life, offering interactive cellular automaton simulations for enthusiasts. Dated entries begin in 2011, then resume in late 2023 and continue at roughly quarterly intervals through 2025. All listed traction leaders (void, cli-of-life, tca) have zero stars, so no product shows a meaningful traction lead.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 7 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01cli-of-life0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal game that runs Conway's Game of Life as an interactive cellular automaton simulator.
- 02void0★1 mo—hobbyTerminal game that simulates Conway's Game of Life with random fill, glider, and gun patterns and configurable delay and generation limits.
- 03tca0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSimulator that renders cellular automaton patterns in the terminal.
- 04game-of-life-tron-style1★8 mostaleliveai-builtGame of life with a Tron-style visual theme.
- 05gol0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based Conway's Game of Life simulation for cellular automata enthusiasts.
- 06trmt0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal program that simulates a two-dimensional Turing machine turmite for exploration.
- 07go-life0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal game that runs Conway's Game of Life as an interactive cellular automaton simulation.
- 08conway-screensaver0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal screensaver that displays Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton.
- 09ncurses-life0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal-based implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.