#life game

[playinghergame]

Same As We Ever Were: #1

an L & Light minicomic

from Jinsei Gemu/Life Game, by Meteo! ("#1" refers to it being the first in a series of unrelated minicomics.)

[oldschoolfrp]

Conan on a computer? (Scot Bayless illustration from his article "Byte the Bullet," The Space Gamer 15, Metagaming, January-February 1978)

In his article Bayless created a simple fantasy game with two competing species based on the Life Game by John Conway, popularized by Martin Gardner, and wrote a flowchart that could be coded as a computer program. From there he made the leap to describe very briefly how rules and decision making in a board game or RPG could be programmed. He warned that you probably would need discs or bubble memory for storage instead of cassette tapes. He noted that the price of computers still was high but was falling, and some people could find access to them through local community colleges and universities.

Nine years later Scot Bayless left his engineering job to code AD&D games for SSI, and went on to be a technical director and producer at Sega of America and a studio head for Microsoft and Midway.

[galacticbitchard]

Can we talk about how the Watchers probably hate Scott and Grian at least a similar amount? But for like completely opposite reasons.

Scott basically embodies the exact opposite of Watchers, what they want, enjoy believe in etc. He could and would never be a true Watcher even if they forcefully turned him, he's the equivalent of their natural enemy. Plus, at least from what I've noticed he very rarely expresses negative emotions even when being hunted down by the whole server. But they won't get rid of him because plenty of players have felt negative emotions due to him (i.e. hunting him down when he's the last green/yellow)

On the contrary, for all intents and purposes, Grian could've been the perfect Watcher. He creates and enjoys chaos, is great at causing negative emotions when he wants to, had already had a small taste of 'power' (being an admin) and yet he refused to be what they wanted. I can't remember if he ran away or just doesn't do what they want, but in the life games Grian wasn't even supposed to ever be there and only joined to try to help the players and at least partially ruin their plans.

In conclusion, the Watchers hate Scott because he's the opposite of them and they hate Grian because he should've/could've been like them but refused to be.

Also, I feel like last life shows the start of the Watcher's hatred for Scott plus how fast he was killed after winning and double life feels like they purposefully did something to make Pearl go crazy. And, while he doesn't really have any one life game that shows how much the Watcher's hate him, the curse Grian has, especially earlier on, where his allies die before him/at his hand (can't remember which of the two or what the curse is called) really shows how much they hate him and, maybe, are trying to make him leave.

[black-mold-muncher]

Let's goooooo

Gaming gaming

[which-chara-is-better]

Which character is better?

Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel)

Boss Mo (Purrfect Tale)

Voting ended onJun 22, 2025

[starppleb]

Hey, I'm lesbian. I thought you were Fishian?

Day 10 - Reef Life (Lens Crack)

Day 10! Last day for me this year!

Made this for @lovergirlmax !

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