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Game of LifeDraw a few cells and watch them come alive.

A calm, beautiful take on the classic cellular automaton: draw, drop famous patterns, and watch gliders, oscillators and whole colonies unfold.
Pinch to zoom, try other rules, colour cells by age and save a picture or a short video.

18 famous patterns12 rule setsPNG, RLE and video

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THREE SIMPLE STEPS

How to play the Game of Life

Draw or pick a pattern

Tap or drag on the grid to bring cells to life, or open Settings and drop a glider, a spaceship or the glider gun.

Press play

Every generation, cells with the right number of neighbours are born or survive. Slow it down, step one generation at a time or undo.

Save what you made

Save a PNG, copy the pattern as RLE, share a link or make a short video for your story.

GOOD TO KNOW

Tips for beautiful patterns

A few ideas to get the most out of the grid.

Start with a soup

A random soup at about 30% settles into a rich mix of still lifes, blinkers and drifting gliders within a few hundred generations.

Watch a methuselah

Drop the R-pentomino or the acorn in an empty world: five or seven cells grow for over a thousand generations.

Turn on age colours

Cells change colour the longer they live, so stable shapes glow differently from fresh growth.

Try another rule

HighLife has a replicator, Day & Night grows blobs that look like ink, Seeds explodes into fireworks, Maze draws corridors.

Use the calm speed

At one or two generations a second the grid becomes a slow, relaxing screen in full screen mode.

Make a vertical clip

Zoom to the area you like, choose 9:16 and make a video: it continues from what you see, at your chosen speed.

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$1 in free credits for eligible new accounts. No card needed. Generators have separate account and credit requirements. The Game of Life simulator is free.

Game of Life FAQ

What is the Game of Life?

A cellular automaton devised by the mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. Each cell on a grid is alive or dead; a dead cell with exactly three live neighbours is born, a live cell with two or three survives, all others die. From these rules come gliders, guns, oscillators and endlessly surprising patterns.

Is this Game of Life free?

Yes. It is free with no sign-up and no watermark on pictures or videos, and runs right in your browser.

How do I draw cells?

Tap or click on the grid to toggle a cell and drag to draw lines. Switch to the eraser, move the view with the hand tool or two fingers, and pinch or use the mouse wheel to zoom.

Which patterns are included?

Gliders, the lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight spaceships, the Gosper glider gun, blinker, toad, beacon, pulsar, pentadecathlon, still lifes such as the block and beehive, methuselahs such as the R-pentomino, diehard and acorn, and the HighLife replicator.

What do B3/S23 and the other rules mean?

B lists the neighbour counts at which a dead cell is born, S the counts at which a live cell survives. B3/S23 is the classic rule; HighLife is B36/S23, Seeds B2/S, Day & Night B3678/S34678. Type any rule in the editor to explore.

Can I import patterns from other collections?

Yes. Open or paste patterns in the standard RLE format (or plain text with . and O). The rule in the RLE header is applied, and you can copy or download your own creations as RLE.

Is the grid infinite?

The world wraps around like a torus, so gliders leaving one edge come back on the other. Choose up to 1024×1024 cells, or switch wrapping off for a bounded world.

Can I make a video of my pattern?

Yes. Pick 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, the length and frame rate, and the tool renders an MP4 (or WebM) that continues from the current generation at your chosen speed.

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