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ASCII Game of Life on Windows Pc

Developed By: Formigone

License: Free

Rating: 3,5/5 - 22 votes

Last Updated: December 25, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version 1.0
Size 169.9 KB
Release Date May 02, 13
Category Puzzle Games

What's New:
*** Version 1.0 ***Includes a fixed size grid, with fixed duration generations. No other features available. The grid is randomly seeded any time the... [see more]

Description from Developer:
No, this is not the board game. This game is John Conway's Game of Life - ASCII version. This game is a zero player game - a cellular automaton - a "discrete model studied... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download ASCII Game of Life and play on Windows PC. ASCII Game of Life is free Puzzle game, developed by Formigone. Latest version of ASCII Game of Life is 1.0, was released on 2013-05-02 (updated on 2023-12-25). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000. Overall rating of ASCII Game of Life is 3,5. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 22 users, 7 users had rated it 5*, 11 users had rated it 1*.

How to play ASCII Game of Life on Windows?

Instruction on how to play ASCII Game of Life on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install ASCII Game of Life on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

  1. Install & Play using BlueStacks
  2. Install & Play using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Play ASCII Game of Life using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "ASCII Game of Life" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play ASCII Game of Life on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "ASCII Game of Life" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 1.0.

Download ASCII Game of Life 1.0 on Windows PC – 169.9 KB

No, this is not the board game. This game is John Conway's Game of Life - ASCII version. This game is a zero player game - a cellular automaton - a "discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling. Cellular automata are also called cellular spaces, tessellation automata, homogeneous structures, cellular structures, tessellation structures, and iterative arrays. "

"A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off (in contrast to a coupled map lattice). The grid can be in any finite number of dimensions. For each cell, a set of cells called its neighborhood (usually including the cell itself) is defined relative to the specified cell. An initial state (time t=0) is selected by assigning a state for each cell. A new generation is created (advancing t by 1), according to some fixed rule (generally, a mathematical function) that determines the new state of each cell in terms of the current state of the cell and the states of the cells in its neighborhood. Typically, the rule for updating the state of cells is the same for each cell and does not change over time, and is applied to the whole grid simultaneously, though exceptions are known, such as the probabilistic cellular automata and asynchronous cellular automaton.
The concept was originally discovered in the 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann while they were contemporaries at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While studied some throughout the 1950s and 1960s, it was not until the 1970s and Conway's Game of Life, a two-dimensional cellular automaton, that interest in the subject expanded beyond academia. In the 1980s, Stephen Wolfram engaged in a systematic study of one dimensional cellular automata, or what he calls elementary cellular automata, showing that some of the rule sets were Turing-complete. He published A New Kind of Science in 2002, claiming that cellular automata have applications in many fields of science."
*** Version 1.0 ***
Includes a fixed size grid, with fixed duration generations. No other features available. The grid is randomly seeded any time the application resumes (whenever it is no longer in view, then is brought back into view).

*** Upcoming Features ***
Configurations - choose generation speed, draw cells though touch, pause and resume generation tick, change symbol representing each cell, change colors.