← Peter Alexander

Tetriminos of Life

A fun mashup of Tetris and Conway's Game of Life. After each piece lands, the board evolves according to cellular automaton rules.

I originally created this game in a few minutes using Claude's Artifacts feature. I remember seeing this video of Tetris built with Game of Life a long time ago and always had an idea to build this mashup at some point, but never got round to it. I'm not quite sure what an optimal playing strategy looks like, but I find it to be quite a fun twist!

TETRIMINOS OF LIFE

Score: 0

Level: 1

← → Move

↓ Soft Drop

↑ Rotate

Space: Hard Drop

Game of Life Rules:

After each piece lands:

• Live cells with 2-3 neighbors survive

• Live cells with <2 or >3 neighbors die

• Dead cells with exactly 3 neighbors are born