[We're still waiting to hear back from one of our winners,but want to thank again all who participated. It was a lot of fun and also a learning experience. We look forward to doing more things like this in the future,after [REDACTED].]
Here’s a short video showing the chip itself:
As some of you figured out,it implements an individual cell in Dr. John Conway’s well-known Game of Life. Countless students have implemented it countless times in countless programming languages,so we thought we’d give it a go in LBP2. I’m sure there’s a more efficient implementation possible,but this one (our second try) seems pretty good.
As the weekend progressed,we added a lot of clues to the contest level. Here’s what it looked like at the end (note the working “blinker”on the scoreboard):
Although we have a couple of winners,we never received the kind of chip demonstration level that we were expecting. Here’s one of ours,showing a couple of “gliders”(with apologies for how slow it loads,we assume due to the Beta servers being offline):
(We coloured the “initially alive”cells with green chips to make them clearly visible in create mode. In reality,the only difference is a single toggle as shown in the video.)
If there’s any interest,we could detail the workings of the chip;is there any interest?