Conway’s Game of Life has been used to describe many different phenomena: Evolution of consciousness and free will, spontaneous design or creation in absence of a designer; but never has it occured to anybody that racism could also evolve from some innocent little cells whose evolution is merely based on fixed rules – you only have to give the cells different colours, so they are not all the same anymore.
Dacke, creator of Conway’s Game of Bigotry, has built up a coherent story and theory framework around this brilliant idea, thrown it into a blender with Pong and Siege game mechanics and created a two player hot seat game in which you try to come out on top against another human being controlling cell evolution and firing cell patterns towards their health bars.
It is regrettable that it has come to this, but it has to be done!
In the name of everything that is [INSERT_YOUR_COLOUR]!
The gameplay is not very easy to figure out, but once you have learned your six action buttons by heart and started to get a grasp of Conway’s life mechanics, incredibly complex battles to the apoptosis will ensue.
2 Comments
1 Ben Chandler wrote:
Load up a nice multiplayer game of Unreal Tournament vs your friends. You get to pick your teams and then you go in and kill each other. How do you tell friends from enemies? Their color – oh no, that’s a red team guy, shoot him! No, not her, she’s one of us blue people!
What about Westwood’s legendary Command & Conquer? Load it up and you get given some yellow tanks. Oh no! Here come some blue guys! They’re not like us, we’d better kill them!
Games have been racist all this time. It’s nice to see somebody finally being honest about it.
Oh yeah, and finally us honest hard working blue cells get a chance to fight back at those damn grey cell foreigners who keep taking all our jobs!
2 56K wrote:
One further question arises: Have colours been racist all the time?