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The idea of making a classic board game into a video game is not necessarily a bad one. But making the Game of LIFE into one should be. I bring The Game of LIFE up on several charges, including: A) Failure to produce significant excitement, B) Lack of interesting options or features to bring the game up to the '90s era, and C) Forcing players to hand off a single controller while playing multiplayer. Furthermore, the defendant is guilty of disturbing the peace with repetitive bubblegum music and mundane cinematic clips. And finally, a slap on the wrist to the folks at Hasbro Interactive. They actually thought this inherently social game would make a good single-player experience (thanks to John Davison for pointing this out). Seriously, I'm a big fan of board games so I'm definitely not biased against these games. In fact, I really like Monopoly for the PS. The difference is Monopoly can still be interactive and cerebral as a video game. Playing LIFE as a video game is more like watching a cartoon. It doesn't feet like you have significant control over what's happening in the contest. Several of us played multiplayer with hardly a mumble about who was winning or losing. No excitement whatsoever. Strange, especially for us. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this sterile version of LIFE to anyone.
OK, now we're venturing into a realm of video gaming that really doesn't interest me--or, I imagine, most hardcore gamers. If I want to play LIFE, I'll open my copy of the board game. I don't feel any need to play it on the PS, particularly because the cheesy animations, annoying music and other 'enhancements' are a turn-off. I suppose it makes a decent party game, but I'd just as soon have a Tekken 3 tournament instead.
' Sometimes these things manage to capture the spirit of the board game pretty well, but The Game of LIFE doesn't quite make it. Sure, all the recognizable stuff is there, but the presentation is way too cluttered, it's a bit slow, and it's all accompanied by the most annoying music imaginable. By its nature this is a social game--so there's no argument for 'playing alone.' Buy the board game. It's l more fun...and it's cheaper.
Watch as board piece characters come to life and make their way through the various stages of life on this spectacular, 3D animated reworking of the familiar physical board. PLAY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE! The Game of Life features a new, unique and much-anticipated multiplayer mode. Online matchmaking lets you play in a whole new way online.
- Conway's Game of Life is a game invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970. The rules are as follows: Each cell lives in a square in a rectangular grid. A cell can either be dead or alive (alive cells are coloured blue in our demo). Before you start the game, you need to provide an initial state.
- L.I.F.E., a free online Action game brought to you by Armor Games. The game is an extremely simplified model of regular course of life. Five chapters from childhood to old age with five different mechanics. Different endings depend on what decisions the player has made during gameplay. Enjoy the game of LIFE!
- Life: The Game is a fun and parodic game about the entire life of a human being and you can play it online and for free on Silvergames.com. How does it start? Of course, your mother’s giving birth to you, so you better get it done or your life won’t even start.
To be honest, I've never really been a big fan of LIFE (the game, that is), so obviously I'm not all that excited about the PS version. It plays just like the board game, it's got some mildly humorous animations and for the most part, it's a good port. But so what? If I'm going to play it at all, I'll play the board game anyway. There's no reason to play it atone (unlike say, jeopardy!), so unless you've got a ton of bored friends, I'd say pass.
An interactive demonstration of Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life is a game invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970. The rules are as follows:
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Each cell lives in a square in a rectangular grid. A cell can either be dead or alive (alive cells are coloured blue in our demo). Before you start the game, you need to provide an initial state. You can do this in the above example by clicking on squares, or by picking a preset from the dropdown menu.
The game is now ready to begin, and this involves advancing through time one step at a time. A cell's fate depends on the state of its 8 closest neighbours (our grid utilises wrapping, meaning a cell on the far left is thought of as a neighbour of a cell on the far right, and the same principle applies at the top and bottom).
- If a cell is alive, and 2 or 3 of it's neighbours are also alive, the cell remains alive.
- If a cell is alive and it has more than 3 alive neighbours, it dies of overcrowding.
- If a cell is alive and it has fewer than 2 alive neighbours, it dies of loneliness.
- If a cell is dead and it has exactly 3 neighbours it becomes alive again.
Those 4 seemingly simple rules can result in wildy differing sequences. Sometimes an initial state will create an unpredictable, chaotic sequence. Other times, it will create a repeating sequence (such as the glider, pulsar, and spaceship from the preset dropdown). And other times, all cells will quickly die off or stabilise into a static formation, known as a still life, such as a 2x2 square.
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Watch Math Brown demonstrate how to interact with our implementation of Conway's Game of Life in the video below.
