I Made a Zero Player Game

Is a game with no players possible? Well... I made one (sorta) → Play Cell Machine: → Twitter: Checkout Game Maker’s Toolkit (if you somehow haven’t yet): The GMTK Game Jam gives you 48 hours to develop a game from scratch. The theme was “out of control“. The idea I settled on was a puzzle game involving cellular automata, inspired by Conway’s Game of Life. Players will set some initial conditions of various cells on a grid, and then the simulation will play out. I pulled out the good ol’ Unity game engine to build this game. After some serious struggle, I eventually developed a possible game idea and figured out how to program it (didn’t actually end up using cellular automata, but it kind of mimics it). There are different types of cells with specific functions. A mover cell moves in one direction and pus
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