For those who don't know what it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_LifeSo basically, it's just a system of rules that governs whether any cell in a grid is empty or filled.
Anyways, I'm programming it in GM, which shouldn't be terribly hard, as it's a really simple system of rules. However, here's what I want to know:
I could probably set it up to where there's always an object in each cell, and it just flips it between two states by checking its neighbors. The problem with that is, I don't want to do that because I'd have to place an instance in every square of the grid, and I don't want a crapload of instances when I move to a larger grid.
So, is there any way I can simply use a single controller object that can check all the positions by itself, rather than have each cell do it separately?
