Game of Life and Death 4+
Michael Huang
Designed for iPad
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- Free
Screenshots
Description
In Game of Life and Death, the popular cellular automaton Conway's Game of Life turns competitive. Two players control the red and blue cells and fight to be the last surviving color. Strategies to win GOLAD can range from as simple as killing the most fertile cell, to as complex as searching through all possible moves and finding the best one. The game comes with a tutorial that is easy to follow for even newcomers to the Game of Life. This game also comes with three levels of AI GOLAD players: dumb, okay, and smart. To be honest, even the smart AI can be beaten relatively easily.
What’s New
Version 1.7
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
GOLAD 1.7 updates (minor)
-Made Game Center the recommended method of online games again, even though HTwins games are still available.
-Fixed a bug where if you were in sandbox mode, went to the menu, and then put in a game string, you would get some nonsensical board where the taps of the game were interpreted as simply taps on the sandbox board. That's fixed now.
-Removed the "auto-refresh" feature that would check to see if your HTwins game had been updated every ten seconds.
GOLAD 1.6 updates
-Implemented HTwins online games, which are faster than GameCenter games, and cross-platform! Unfortunately, you don’t get notifications for your turn in these games, but that’s why you get to choose between HTwins and GameCenter.
-Fixed bug where game strings that result in a game ending right away are now interpreted correctly.
-Previously, when Player 1 initiated a game but hadn’t made the first move yet, Player 2 could sneak into the game and make both players’ first moves. That is no longer the case: Player 2 will be met with a message that says “Player 1 isn’t done creating the game yet!”
-Allowed sandbox-created games to be spread via GameCenter/HTwins online games
-Fixed bug where, going back in history and starting a new “branch” of the tree no longer created “phantom” presses of the “Finish Move Button”.
-you can now go from sandbox mode to the main menu, and return to the same sandbox.
-In an online game, it now says “(you)” under your own username.
-It now shows the version number by the corner of the GOLAD logo.
-Made the undo/redo buttons x1.8 faster when held
Ratings and Reviews
A Great Game Poses an Intriguing Question
I love the game so far, it's fun and enjoyable, easy to learn but hard to master. However, there is one thing that I would like to see added to the game (I understand you are a college student and are focused on other priorities.) The AI. Yes, the premise of this game is to be fun for people and a winnable challenge against a computer. There should be an option to play against an "Unbeatable AI" or a "Chess worth computer." The game has the ability for the computer to play itself, and I wanted to see if the computer could learn from mistakes. This is because of an anomaly I discovered trying to undo a mistake I made while playing against an AI. The AI changed the move to combat my new move, as expected. I then went on to win the game. I repeated the process and it didn't respond in the same way. The game continued and the AI won. Did it learn from it's mistakes? If the ability for a "Chess worthy computer" was added we could test this question.
Great game, but some small requests
I really enjoy this game I think it’s fun, it’s a very simple but incredibly strategic tile based chess type game. That’s all I really have to say, but at times I feel like it’s held back by the maximum size of boards being 20x20, I really would like to play on huge maps where zooming and scrolling could be used to find small invasions, then I could slowly build up a glider, or a square army for tons of resources, stuff like that. If the map size was increased, but there was more of an empty center the game could be incredibly enjoyable, and maybe last a while. Still a great game, but I’d really like a bigger maps update. Also the rules thing with like B3/S23 or whatever is not explained I have no idea what it does
What
What is this, a morbid alternative to the regular process of downloading an app, WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG, oh it’s installed now, yay I want to play it, what it’s so confusing, oh now I get it, it’s boring now, I want to delete it?
Sandbox mode is cool because you can spell letters then do the iterations then press undo and have others attempt to guess the original letters before they come into view.
What is life, anyway? An attempt to make up for all of those failed attempts to make up for all the other failed attempts?
Online mode is finicky.
What is everything, millions upon billions upon trillion trillions of atoms stacked upon yet more atoms to form molecules? What is the universe?
I like the blues and reds.
What is this game? Is it an attempt to clamp down all of everything into one little box on one little screen? No, it is thousands of boxes, with The Game of Life and Death inside each. There are many screens, and some are larger than others. That is not a clamp.
This is a masterpiece of an app. That’s what.
App Privacy
The developer, Michael Huang, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
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Information
- Seller
- Michael Huang
- Size
- 40.2 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016-2017 Cary Huang
- Price
- Free
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.