KNOWN BUGS:

- Sometimes the little guy will get stuck in a block. Sometimes you can get out of it safely by ticking forwards/backwards, but if not, hit R to restart the level.

- Sometimes the audio doesn't load :(. No idea why. Try refreshing a couple times. If that doesn't work, sorry. You can pull up this youtube video in the background to get a sense of what I Bog wanted: 

Bog created the game of life. Then Bog got bored, so they made this.

Inspired by Conway's infamous game of life, this puzzle-platformer will force you to confront chaos head-on.

But why? WHY? WHY?!?!?!

THEME INTERPRETATION:

Fever dream = Chaos

Chaos = Game of life

Game of life + add a little guy platforming = Game jam submission.

CREDITS:

- Background: Game Boy Platformer Asset Pack by Gumpy Function.

- Music: Stumble Around in A Bag of Chips by Zane Little.

- Sound Effects: The Essential Retro Video Game Sound Effects Collection by SubspaceAudio.

- Level Editor: LDtk by Deep Night Games.

AI:

NO ART/MUSIC/SOUND WAS CREATED USING AI.

I did however use Claude Opus 4.5 to help code the game. In an ideal world, I wouldn't have done this, but work got busy and needed the extra assist to finish in time. Sorry :/ Check out the code below, some parts of it are definitely a bit "slop"-y. And the rest is written by AI.

But in a way, isn't anything with Conway's game of life using artificial intelligence???

CODE:

https://github.com/dream-lake-games/meaningless