reaching here
but were state systems like cellular automata looked at or ruled out of the digital soldier banner decoding hunt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_cellular_automaton
2D Cyclic Cellular Automata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi8tljwrOc
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~gravner/papers/cca.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
https://www.genpact.com/insight/blog/game-of-life-by-conway-beyond-a-game
Games on Grids
Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund
https://ped.fas.harvard.edu/files/ped/files/geolecolinter00.pdf
Nowak MA & Sigmund K (2000). Games on Grids. In: The Geometry of Ecological Interactions:
Simplifying Spatial Complexity, eds. Dieckmann U, Law R & Metz JAJ, pp. 135–150. Cambridge
University Press. c International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis