Conway's Game of Life (sHaDe's version)

A simple Game of Life simulator made using Raylib and ImGUI. A personal project to get my feet wet with C++ app/game development! Raylib is intended to handle window setup and rendering, while ImGUI will be used to create a UI so users can speed up, stop, or otherwise control the simulation to their liking.

Building

1. Clone the repo
   • use --recursive if you do not have:
     • the DearImGUI or rlImGui source files
     • nor a pre-compiled Raylib static library
   • if using Visual Studio, don't forget to set the "Select Startup Item" field to game-of-life.*
2. Build
   • if building manually without CMake, be sure to compile the DearImGui and rlImGui source files alongside this project's sources
     • (the full list of needed files is in my CMakeLists.txt)
3. Run and enjoy some cool blinking cells :)

Schedule

Number	Goal	Timeline	Notes
1	Render Grid & Cells	3/3 - 3/7	- done 3/7 Github issue here
2	Store Cell States	3/10 - 3/14	- done 3/16 (technically 3/9, after that was working on adding sim rules to ensure grid worked) Github issue here
3	Optimize Grid+Ticks	3/17 - 3/21	- done 3/27 (after several days of bad sleep and frantic interview prep) Github issue here
4	Toggle-able Cells	3/24 - 3/28	- done 3/29 Github issue here
5	Tick vs Frame Rate	3/31 - 4/11	- done 4/10 Github issue here
6	Create UI	4/14 - 4/25	- done 4/28 (technically 4/27, got a UI w/ original intended features working, was hoping to add screen wrapping but no time, it'll be new feature) Github issue here
7	Screen Wrapping	4/28 - 5/2	- done 5/3 (technically 5/2, spent more time to fix mouse bounds bug) goal's Github issue here
8	Clean Code + Repo	5/19 - 5/30	- done 6/3, learning CMake and adapting this project to it was,,, an experience. Learned quite a bit though! Github issue here
9	Actually Release	6/10 - 6/10	- done 6/10 Github issue here

Stretch Goals

Number	Goal	Timeline	Notes
1	Zoom In/Out	TBD	- moved back to stretch goal to move on to new project, may return sometime Github issue here
2	Save UI configs	TBD	- Github issue here
3	Sound Effects	TBD	- Github issue here

Resources/Notes to Self

• Wikipedia
• Raylib Cheatsheet
• for ImGUI, open up imgui.h and imgui_demo.cpp