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It seems there's a lot of buzz around this game. Is there a particular reason for that?
by yodsanklai 13y ago
It seems there's a lot of buzz around this game. Is there a particular reason for that?
- protomyth 13y agoComputer folks seem to be attracted to games with simple rules that can be programmed easily. Life comes to mind. This one has a lot of permutations of rules to explore.
- jnazario 13y agotwo kinds of buzz - playing and making. making is easy for the reasons outlined by protomyth. playing, i think, is NP-hard, and that makes games really addictive. see this research: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf which talks about flood filling games as being NP-hard. there's a satisfaction we get when we succeed that tickles our humanity in a unique way.