Game of Life

[Lobby]

With version 340 we introduced a new functionality for plugin buildings called fun. With it you can define actions which depend on conditions like whether a specific building is placed nearby. These transitions (conditions + following actions) are evaluated and executed daily so you there's no time limitation.

I tried to come up with a meaningful example to demonstrate it's capabilities. The result is a Game of Life implementation whose functionality is fully expressed via it's plugin code. The cells switch it's state if you click on them.

Here's how it looks like:

And here's also a YouTube Video🎞 showing it in action.

The confuse you here's the code

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// This is a plugin for TheoTown
// Visit www.theotown.com to learn more about TheoTown plugins
//
// Written by Lobby Divinus to demonstrate new fun functionality

[
  {
    "id":"$cat_gol",
    "type":"category",
    "title":"Game of Life",
    "frames":[{"bmp":"icon.png"}]
  },
  
  {
    "id":"$gol_dead",
    "type":"decoration",
    "category":"$cat_gol",
    "title":"Dead cell",
    "text":".",
    "width":1,
    "height":1,
    "frames":[{"bmp":"gol.png","w":32,"h":16}],
    "frame alignment area":true,
    "fun":[
      {
        "condition":{"type":"nearby","z":3,"inner":[{"type":"building","id":"$gol_alive"}]},
        "actions":[
          {"type":"remove"},
          {"type":"build","id":"$gol_alive"}
        ]
      }
    ],
    "on click fun":[
      {
        "actions":[
          {"type":"remove"},
          {"type":"build","id":"$gol_alive"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  
  {
    "id":"$gol_alive",
    "type":"decoration",
    "category":"$cat_gol",
    "title":"Alive cell",
    "text":".",
    "width":1,
    "height":1,
    "frames":[{"bmp":"gol.png","x":32,"w":32,"h":16}],
    "frame alignment area":true,
    "fun":[
      {
        "condition":{"type":"nearby","min":2,"max":3,"invert":true,"inner":[
          {"type":"building","id":"$gol_alive"}
        ]},
        "actions":[
          {"type":"remove"},
          {"type":"build","id":"$gol_dead"}
        ]
      }
    ],
    "on click fun":[
      {
        "actions":[
          {"type":"remove"},
          {"type":"build","id":"$gol_dead"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]

Used images:

gol.png (924 Bytes) Viewed 12767 times

icon.png (303 Bytes) Viewed 12767 times

A proper documentation will follow. This plugin's purpose is to demonstrate the functionality rather than being useful.

[Bearbear76]

Nice... again

[Bearbear76]

What's "z"

[Lobby]

In this context it means how many buildings of this id are expected as neighbor. If the actual number differs the condition is not fulfilled.

[Josh]

That is something cool

[JustAnyone]

In latest video Lobby created some dangerous wildlife animals eating power lines.

[Lobby]

I just updated the code to use new fun functionality from version 341. The old code will still work, though I recommend to forget about anything you read in it. The new style is cleaner and has better performance.

[Thisismyname]

Yay

[imajoke]

lol this is already in-game...

i know, this is before it was added

i also know this thread is dead

so dont reply saying "this thread is dead" or whatever

[Bearbear76]

lol this is already in-game...

i know, this is before it was added

i also know this thread is dead

so dont reply saying "this thread is dead" or whatever

What was the point in the post though?