Apr 13, 2020
It's been a while.
I recently saw the sad news that John Conway[1] has passed away. This reminded me of a time in 2012 when I wrote a Cellular Automata "game" for the Nintendo GameBoy as part of the Ludum Dare[2] game jam.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
2: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/
I had to make a few improvements tonight before uploading it, and I am very impressed with the fact that I can spin up a Docker container and install the Gameboy Dev KIT rpm file I have had since then and it allowed me to compile a new version of the rom without any issues. What a time to be alive.
Here[3] you can download it and have a play.
RIP Mr Conway.
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![Screenshot [IMG]](/kennedy.gemi.dev/img/Automata1.png){kind=link}
![Screenshot [IMG]](/kennedy.gemi.dev/img/Automata2.png){kind=link}