RuleRule is a game which might be of interest to students and researchers of AI,
machine learning and related areas.

In this game, rules act and modify other rules (including themselves).
The goal is to reach a desired condition (e.g. a checkerboard of red and yellow).

Versions

For a first test of the game mechanics in your browser,
download the Javascript version,
coded by Jan-Hendrik Vienup (December 2014, GPL) tested with Firefox, MSIE, Chrome, and Safari :
RuleRule3.zip

First created with NeXT Interface Builder and Objective-C files (1995, Mach OS): rulerule.gz (Creative Commons Attribution License). For some history, see
http://hilgemeier.gmxhome.de/codes/rulerule.htm

Unfinished Java project, running under Eclipse Luna with Windows 7 (2012, LGPL). Contains notes and design diagrams for possible future development. Doxygen-documented : RuleRule2.00_working.zip

Features

  • Game
  • Puzzle
  • self-modifying
  • rules
  • graphical

Project Samples

random start configuration top row 2nd from right rule square (change right red side to green) has been used on the top right rule square. repeated use of the same rule The Javascript interface. The 3rd from right bottom row rule has been used repeatedly to eliminate almost all other red. The remaining two rules with red only need to be aplied to themselves to eliminate all red.

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