Game of Life - Step 1

I've completed and attached the first step to my "Conway's Game of Life" project! This allows for arbitrarily sized games, dependent on how big you can realistically synthesize n^2 D Flip Flops.
As you can see by the real exciting image on the right, I'm able to simulate a game properly.

I have a few remaining issues with this:

• The game state is stored in two arrays, A and B. A contains the initial state, B is the evolved state. After the first iteration, I need to swap their roles. I'm not sure the best way to do this.
• Use Verilog for loops to swap the registers
• How would this synthesize in hardware?
• How would this impact timing? This would be attempting to do this in a single clock cycle
• Copy a couple at a time, breaking across clock cycles
• Seems like the reasonable variant of option 1
• Will probably take a while
• Put every read/write in a conditional block, directing the read/write to the appropriate register
• Synthesizes reasonably, pretty quick
• Best option I've come across so far
• What I'm currently using
• Another option?
• I'm asking around on some forums, perhaps there is another option I'm not considering.
• Is there a way to reduce the states in my FSM?
• The current states are really easy to work with, but there may be an optimization I can do here
• Output game state to an external display
• Currently when I synthesize this in hardware I have no way to actually observe the states changing, which makes this pretty useless.
• Simple VGA output should be easy
• Pipelining?
• So this could benefit from pipelining, but I'm going to avoid doing that at this stage. Perhaps for a next project when I have a more solid footing!

Source: Game Of Life, Version 1