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Thanks for taking the time to play my submission!

Another user also had trouble with keyboard input. I believe it has something to due with the way itch.io embeds the page in an iframe, as a local browser page with the application *seems* to handle keystrokes fine. A copy of the game without the aforementioned issue can be found on my personal site at https://www.ashn.dev/proj/life.html as an FYI to anyone else reading this comment.

Additionally, running:

$ make life.bundle.html

from within the source directory should build the non-native version of the application as seen on itch.io (requires emcc in your $PATH). Building this make target should avoid all the hassle of needing to manually set make environment variables. The make targets have only been tested on a Debian-based OS but they *might* work out  of the box on OSX.

Anyway thanks again for taking the time to play my submission. This was my first-ever jam so I appreciate any and all feedback.

Thanks for the feedback!

The embedded HTML page worked in my testing on Firefox and Chrome, but it is very picky. If you click out of the iframe or use certain browser keyboard shortcuts then the application seems to lose the ability to process keyboard input (as you mentioned). I am looking into how to correct this for future SDL2 applications I put on itch.io, but for now you can visit https://www.ashn.dev/proj/life.html if you would like play a version of the game that (likely) does not suffer from this issue

Thanks again for taking the time to check out my submission!