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Life or Death

Author:David S. Glasser
Genre:Abuses
Released:1998
Review:

A freely-admitted abuse of the Z-machine; you are in a single featureless room with a gameboard on which you can play Conway's Game of Life (the one with multiplying cells, not the one where pegs ride around in little plastic cars). Curiously, it still uses the standard IF style, where you have to use the verb "toggle" to turn cells on and off individually, making setting up complex board configurations a real chore.

Rating: Not rated

Reviewed by R. Serena Wakefield (29 Jul 2000)

Play Online:Play it at ifiction.org
Downloads:
life.zip (37.97 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (version: 1), Inform source code


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