Conway's Game of Life in an Unreal Engine material

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CGOL is Conway’s Game of Life written in an Unreal Engine 4 material.

Notable features include:

  • Well organized and commented assets
  • No C++, just Blueprint
  • No custom nodes, meaning it will port to anything that supports rendering to texture
  • An easy to use slot for plugging in custom materials that display the game state however you like
  • Robust seed support, meaning you can drop in any texture you want to start the game and it will automatically be interpreted as 1 bit monochrome on a playfield of the texture’s size
  • Tiny 5.5MB download

What you use it for is up to you. Perhaps you have an idea for how to incorporate its unique aesthetic, or plan to treat the game state as a bitmap seeding a procedurally generated world. Please let us know if you come up with anything interesting!

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Just got word from Epic: CGOL will be available on the Unreal Marketplace October 5th!

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CGOL is now available on the Unreal Marketplace! At only $4.99 you might get your money’s worth just from the entertainment value as a desktop toy.

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Updates! First of all CGOL now has proper documentation. You can find it here.

Also, CGOL (and all my other current products) are in this fantastic, ridiculously cheap charity bundle with 100% of the proceeds going to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Planned Parenthood. It’s only up for a few more days so please have a look right away!