Half life: Full Life Consequences! Cartoon version! Based on the first piece of fan fiction to ever be critically acclaimed.
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - View this thread

Passage -- a small game about a big subject.
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - View this thread

In Games, an Insight Into the Rules of Evolution. Carl Zimmer writes about Martin Nowak (previously mentioned here), a mathematical biologist who uses games to understand how cooperation evolved. [Via MindHacks.]
posted on Aug 11, 2007 - View this thread

Play with a virtual ecosphere. [Flash].
posted on Oct 31, 2003 - View this thread

If life's a game, how do you win? We've been mapping our paths through life for centuries, but it took an American Civil War-era publisher to turn it into a boardgame (after Lincoln's new beard killed demand for his line of clean-shaven presidential portraits). In the age of the PC we can find the answer to life in games, live parallel lives in games, simulate the evolution of life in games, and search for everlasting life in games - but can they beat the dusty old box and dice? And what life lessons are all these games teaching us?
posted on Mar 26, 2003 - View this thread