Posted Jun 15, 2008 at 05:36AM by Charles D. Listed in: Homebrew Games Tags: GNU, DSLife
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Nintendo DS handheld - Image 1As life simulators go, nothing beats the old-school cellular automaton "game" Conway's Game of Life. The latest incarnation of the game, entitled "DSlife", finds its way on the Nintendo DS thanks to the efforts of developer Jeremy Ruten a.k.a. Elektro_Plankton. Find out all the new changes since our previous coverage of DSlife in our full article.

Download: DSlife 3.5
Download: DSlife 3.5 (source code)

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Posted Jun 05, 2008 at 12:33PM by Victor B. Listed in: Homebrew Development, Homebrew Games Tags: DSLife
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DSlife 3 released - Image 1There's a new Game of Life simulator out in the homebrew world, and it's available here for you to download at your leisure. The game is called DSlife 3, and it's made by Jeremy Ruten. Learn more about this application after the jump!


Download: DSlife 3
Download: DSlife 3 Source Code

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Posted Dec 03, 2006 at 08:41PM by Chris L. Listed in: Homebrew Applications Tags: PAlib, lifesa trip, Jeremysr, DSLife
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How long can you keep your game of life going?If you remember Lifesa Trip from a few months ago, it was a mind-blowing, multicolored exposition of Conway's Game of Life on the DS. Problem is, working with it seemed more like an exercise in programming the game rather than the point-and-click simplicity you'd expect from the DS - and with that touchscreen, you dang well wanted that simplicity.

Enter Jeremysr, the PAlib dev behind DStrivia, who brings out DSLife. It's not as mind-blowing as Lifesa, since it's only black-and-white, but it is point-and-tap simple, using the touchscreen to draw images on the touchscreen before running the image-altering, chaos theory-demonstrating, zero-player program. It's only starters, but we can imagine further improvements to this homebrew to incorporate zoom-in on the larger "game boards", color, and so forth - Jeremysr envisions pre-loading the program with bitmap images as one future feature.

There are three versions in this package - one featuring a 32 x 24 cell board, the next 64 x 48, and the biggest 256 x 192. It's not really a game - though Jeremysa identifies it as a game in the PAlib forums because there was no other category he could place it in - but an app that demonstrates the scientific concepts of self-organization and emergence.

This is something that could be used IN a classroom, for example. If you are quite interested in this next-level math (or logic, or whatever) stuff, aside from downloading this program (and Lifesa Trip as well), you could head over to Wikipedia and search for "Conway's Game of Life" to learn more. Who says homebrew is a distraction from important education?

See if you can do this in the Game of DSLife


Download: [DSLife by Jeremysr]

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