Life Sweeper
Controls:
- Classic Minesweeper LMB and RMB
- Hold down Middle mouse button and drag to move the camera
- Mouse wheel to zoom
- ESC/Tab - options
- R - restart
Rules:
Classic minesweeper combined with Conway's Game of Life. Mines are alive cells.
Make a turn at minesweeper (flag placement doesn't count) to make a turn at Game of Life. You die, if you hit a mine (calculated BEFORE Game of Life changes mines' position)
By default "Pinning mines" is on. Flagged mines won't disappear and (by default) won't count for Game of Life neighbours calculation.
Flag all mines to win!
Options explanation:
Field size - number of cells on the side of a field square.
Mine percentage - chance to spawn a mine for every cell while generation (default 0.18).
Safe start - prevents first click to land on a mine, prioritizes opening zero-cells.
Pinning mines with flags - flagged mines will stay on their position.
Exclude pinnes mines from GoL(Game of Life) - flagged mines are excluded from GoL neighbours calculation.
Classic Game of Life rules:
For every turn run this conditions for every cell:
- If a cell is dead and it has exactly 3 alive cells in neighbourhood (3x3), it becomes alive.
- If a cell is alive and it has 2 or 3 alive neighbours, it stays alive
- Otherwise (less than 2 or more than 3 neighbours) cell dies.
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Really interesting concept !
How are you supposed to flag all the mines when the field keeps changing? Maybe make it so any flagged mine stays a mine and possibly any cleared space stays cleared. I think the last one would probably make it too boring, but having mines stay could probably work.
Basically you should wait, until all the reactions stop and transform into either stable shapes or oscillators, which you can predict. I made this game just as an experiment and I want to keep it very customizable, so maybe I will add "pinned mines" as an option. Thanks for feedback! I wonder if this project will grow into some competitive field.