MetaFilter posts tagged with life and games

The contrysides were nice and the plants were singing and the birds and the sun was almost down from the top of the sky.

oxford blue — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:02:15 -0800

Half life: Full Life Consequences! Cartoon version! Based on the first piece of fan fiction to ever be critically acclaimed. Now, to recover some lost brain cells, how about Yellow Ducky String Theory? Danger, weird accents abound! Thanks ants. Thants.

empath — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:57:58 -0800

Passage -- a small game about a big subject.

homunculus — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:25:56 -0800

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.]

nthdegx — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:29:29 -0800

Play with a virtual ecosphere. [Flash].

rory — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:22:47 -0800

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?