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Products that do what Conway's Game of Life on GitHub contribution board does

1. 1GO
   Game of Life in 32 bytes of assembler▲267

   2020 · pouet.net

2. 2RI
   Rust Implementation of Conway's Game of Life▲76

   2020 · github.com

3. 3MP
   Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life▲85

   2014 · gameoflifetotalwar.com

4. 4IM
   I made Conway's Game of Life in JavaScript/Canvas▲5

   2012 · nomatteus.github.com

5. 5CS
   Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples patterns▲62

   This is my spin on Conway's Game of Life. I have added the ability to create an account, save grids that you have discovered, and browse the gallery of grids saved by other people and replay them. This project has served as a sandbox for me to practice various aspects of developing a comprehensive web application from scratch. This was my first time developing a full scale web app with [almost] all the features you would expect. I know it is nowhere near perfect in its current state, but I feel it has reached a point of diminishing returns, and therefore my time is better spent focussing on…

   2024 · game-of-life-f262d.web.app

6. 6DG
   DragonRuby Game Toolkit▲234

   2021 · dragonruby.org

7. 7GO
   Gamification.org - Open Source Game Mechanics▲76

   2010 · gamification.org

8. 8CS
   Conway's Game of Life in PHP in Your Terminal▲6

   2016 · github.com

9. 9MH
   My HTML5 Game for Github Game Off▲82

   2012 · khele.in

10. 10CS
    Conway's Game of Life JS implementation▲11

    All credit goes to https://twitter.com/WiseAndy

    2013 · 54.247.181.15

11. 11CA
    Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++▲193

    2017 · github.com

12. 12CS
    Conway's Game of Life in 10 Programming Languages▲10

    2019 · github.com

13. 13SG
    Stacked Game of Life▲195

    https://github.com/vnglst/stacked-game-of-life

    Feb 2026 · stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl

14. 14IB
    I Built Conway's Game of Life for Ethereum▲5

    2021 · danhough.com

15. 15
    GitHub Game of Life

    Visualizes GitHub contribution graphs as Game of Life

    Jan 2026

16. 16GO
    Game of Life in x86 Assembly▲6

    2017 · github.com

17. 17CS
    Conway's Game of Life in 40 Lines of JS▲5

    2015 · jsfiddle.net

18. 18IC
    Interactive Conway's Game of Life with good graphics (MIT License)▲5

    2018 · symbolflux.com

19. 19
    Playing Lean▲104

    A board game that teaches the Lean Startup Methodology

    2015

20. 20NA
    NasNas, a new intuitive and user friendly C++ game framework▲95

    2020 · github.com

21. 21AC
    A Clojure game library▲93

    2014 · github.com

22. 22IB
    I built an Android game▲114

    2013 · play.google.com

23. 23DA
    DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren▲90

    2020 · domeengine.com

24. 24LC
    Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid▲75

    2021 · lifeee.netlify.app

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