Cellular automata have found most of their traction in the popular imagination, if at all, as effectively neat little screensavers. Pattern Royale turns their underlying mechanisms into a sport: human and machine agents design rule sets, deploy them onto a shared grid, and watch as their carefully reasoned strategies collide with everyone else’s carefully reasoned strategies to produce outcomes no one carefully reasoned about at all.
Pattern Royale
Status early Domain games Themes emergent-systems · generative-media