Game (Boy) of Life
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About this game
Game (Boy) of Life turns Conway's cellular automaton into a small Game Boy drawing experiment. You create a pattern of living cells and then let the simulation evolve it. The opening arrangement spells out LIFE, giving you an immediate pattern to alter or clear before making your own.
While editing, move the cursor with the arrows and press X, the Game Boy A button, to toggle the selected cell. Z maps to B and switches automatic simulation on or off. Stop automatic mode before editing again. Enter maps to Start and clears the living cells while you are in edit mode, so use it only when you want to begin a new pattern.
Try a small cluster first, watch several generations, then stop and change one cell. Comparing two nearby patterns is an easy way to see how a small edit changes their behaviour.
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Quick tips
Stop automatic mode before moving the cursor or drawing.
Enter clears your pattern; it does not start the simulation.
Try a small pattern and change one cell at a time.
- Arrow keys
- In edit mode: move the cursor
- X
- Game Boy A: set or clear the selected cell
- Z
- Game Boy B: toggle automatic simulation
- Enter
- Game Boy Start: clear the board in edit mode
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Browser play is available for this entry. Official project references are listed below.
- Distribution
- GPL-3.0-or-later code / CC BY-SA 4.0 assets
- Attribution
- Game (Boy) of Life by Studio Guma; source code licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later and assets under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Browser player
- EmulatorJS · Browser play
- Added to archive
- 2026-07-23
- Official references
- Source code
- Download open-source code packageSource code only; this is not a game ROM download.