I found the article about the game Pacmecium to be extremely interesting. I would never have thought about creating a game using live microbes. I thought this was very creative on the part of the video game creator, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse. I was curious about how the electrical field attracted the microbes to it. This was an integral part of the game and I was curious as to whether the attraction that the microbes had to the electrical field was what inspired Ingmar Riedel-Kruse to create the game, or if he wanted to create a game and went searching for the perfect way to create it using bacteria cells.
Hi there,
I thought the article about the game Pacmecium very interesting as well. I thought it was kind of a strange and abstract thing to research and spend so much time on. What purpose does it serve? It certainly does not provide any improvements to the technical capacity of standard video games. Although, I am curious how much room for expansion and growth there is in this area. A biological game that is much more advanced than Pacemecium could provide more realism than standard video games. However, I am sure something like this is either extremely unlikely to come about or a least a long way away from fruition.
-Sam Allred