WiiLife: Conway’s Game of Life for the Wii

You hold the secret of life in the palm of your hand – and in your Wiimote. Homebrew dev drei000 has introduced Conway’s classic Game of Life to the Wii, called WiiLife. You may have heard of it or seen it in one form or another, since it’s a pretty popular game – as well as a pretty popular concept in math, philosophy, and biology. Details in the full article.

Download: WiiLife

Conway’s Game of Life is a pretty popular game – if you can call it a game. It’s a cellular automation program which has become a popular concept in mathematics, philosophy, biology, and a lot of other fields because of the concepts behind it. Now, Wiibrew developer drei000 has translated the game on to the Wii in WiiLife.

This is the program’s first release, so it’s still a little buggy and may crash once in a while. The rules of Game of Life – and, in effect, WiiLife – are simple, effective, and total. There are only four, but they are the foundation of creating complex patterns:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.
2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

Here is an example of how it works:

Download: WiiLife

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Via WiiLife