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A zero-player game is a game that has no sentient players.

In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players.[1]

Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton devised in 1970 by the British mathematician John Horton Conway, is considered a zero-player game because its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans.[2][3] In addition, Some fighting and real-time strategy games can be put into zero-player mode by placing one AI against another.


See also

References

  1. ^ "Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society", Rodney P. Carlisle, SAGE Publications.
  2. ^ Martin Gardner (October 1970), "Mathematical games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'Life'" (PDF), Scientific American
  3. ^ Ljiljana Petruševski, Mirjana Devetaković, Bojan Mitrović, Self-Replicating Systems in Spatial Form Generation - The Concept of Cellular Automata{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)