Game of Life (xs) User Reviews

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Amazing

Great Conway's Life! Lots of options, free w/ no hidden purchases.

Useless without a reset

Looked all over the app, and I couldn't find a way to reset a design back to G 0 without having to completely re-draw it. If they put a reset in there, they did a terrible job of making it apparent.

Response from developer

Please check the latest version. I added save/restore function just for you ;)

Good Implementation!

I appreciate the amount of control one has over the birth/sustain rules, as well as the aging feature. I would like to be able to save/load custom rules, as well as have an implementation of the "immigrant" feature, where a new cell has the average color of the cells around it.

Overall, though, it is excellent for being free!
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Many variations

This is a very well done app. Lots of choices and different ways to configure the life particles.
You can now export an image of your creations β€” thanks for listening β€” but they are blurry for some reason. I’ll stick to doing a screen shot for now.

Response from developer

Please try to open the image in Pixelmator or some other image app. Apple photos gallery app makes small images look very blurry, but they are actually sharp. Or at least they are saved as sharp png files, no jpeg artefacts. β€”β€” Ads are gone (I know, they are annoying. I decided to keep the app free for now). Exporting is there, too - it saves PNG's to camera roll (Photo app interpolates, so they can look weird).

Wonderful game

This is the best time killer ever!

Conways Life nicely done

Fast and fluid implementation, high resolution, good range of options. Ads are very annoying full screen ones but for $1.49 you can get rid of them and obviously that's what the developer wants you to do. Fair enough!
I'm a bit puzzled why the arena is a different shape to the screen but I guess you can zoom and pan so that kinda makes sense.
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Response from developer

Ads are gone :) Yes, the playground can be basically any size, but I chose to have a same width and height. It is also good to have those sizes as power of 2 for saving some memory (but in my case it doesn't matter much).

Ads stopped me from doing anything

Deleting this.

I downloaded it because the screenshots looked good but the Game of War popup ad just kept blocking me from spending time with the game. So it's the trash bin for you.

Response from developer

Could you please check a new version? I made some improvements. The ads are still there, but they show every fixed period of time (previously it was based by computed generations) and you can get rid of them for a while by sharing the app (or permanently by buying it). Thank you for your time.

Rubbishy

The simulation is 100% spoils by full screen adverts that pop up too often

Avoid

Goes to an ad every 15 seconds. Essentially unusable

Ads are very disruptive

Ads get in the way of a good experience

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