Conway's Game of Life in Java!!

I recently met with Conway's Game of Life problem given as a programming assignment by one of the famous MNCs to clear level 1 in interview process. It was so mouth watering that I want to develop an UI for it and publish it in my blog. Spent 3 hours and came up with this.

Quick gist about the game from wikipedia

The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbors, which are the cells that are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

The initial pattern constitutes the seed of the system. The first generation is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the seed—births and deaths occur simultaneously, and the discrete moment at which this happens is sometimes called a tick (in other words, each generation is a pure function of the preceding one). The rules continue to be applied repeatedly to create further generations.

Following is the screenshot and an applet for the same. The Code is free to share and distribute. Visit my github link for this game for the bleeding edge copy.

 

Cheers!!
Braga

15 game in Flash Actionscript3

Having implemented the 15-game in Java, I thought I would attempt the same with Flash + AS3. And the same was done swiftly and I have presented the output and the code here. This is the same as the applet version, you will have to use your arrow keys to play.




The Layout grid file which I wrote on my own to simulate an exact Grid Layout similar to the one in Java.

Cheers!!
Braga

A Free game in Java

I wanted to play this game so badly as I use to be very good at it. I was not knowing the proper keyword to find it online. So, what the heck, I went ahead and created one! The front end used was Swing.
The objective of this game is to arrange from numbers 1 through 24 (or depending on the size) in proper order and you have one square free. You can move to that empty sqaure by pressing either of the four arrow keys UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT. All the puzzles formed will have a solution. You can use this code anywhere you want.

If you have Java installed in your browser, you should be able to see the Applet. Just click anywhere inside the applet and start playing using the arrow keys! Have fun!

Screenshot	Applet

Cheers,
Bragaadeesh.