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+# Best way to lose a life
+
+J. David Lowe  
+434 Tenney Drive  
+Rogue River, OR  
+97537  
+<j.david.lowe@gmail.com>  
+<http://www.pootpoot.net/>  
+
+
+## Judges' comments:
+### To build:
+
+    make dlowe
+
+### To run:
+
+    ./dlowe
+
+### Try:
+
+    ./dlowe
+    # Watch for a while if you like, then press a key within the window
+    # Use up and down keys to escape death
+
+### Selected Judges Remarks:
+
+The judges lose playing this game. This entry wins!
+
+OS X users running Mountain Lion and later will need to download and install:
+
+	http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
+
+Q: How did we get past the variadic macro problem on a Mac?
+
+A: Don't use -pedantic-errors in the Makefile.
+
+
+## Author's comments:
+# Conway's Game of DEATH
+
+This is a challenging, fast-paced arcade game, based on the famous Game of
+Life.
+
+## Story
+
+In the game, you are Mr.C, a lightweight spaceship making a futile dash for
+escape from the rigid rules and predictability of life in the B3/S23 universe.
+
+Use the up and down arrow keys to steer: collisions are fatal for Mr.C! Learn
+to spot incoming gliders, skim the surfaces of beehives and blocks, and give
+blinkers plenty of space. Things get crazier as Mr.C picks up speed... can he
+escape?
+
+No. There is no winning. Sadly for Mr.C, this universe goes on forever. Just
+see how far you can make it!
+
+Press 'q' any time to quit.
+
+## Features
+
+* casual gameplay
+* infinite, procedurally generated universe
+* progressive difficulty
+* animated splash screens
+
+## Limitations
+
+* Flicker, especially at high speeds, and in spite of "double-buffering" (X11
+  doesn't make it possible to lock drawing to the display refresh rate.)
+* Cannot be run outside of the directory containing the data files (splash.d,
+  dead.d and sprites.d).
+* Cannot build or run without X11 (or an X11 compatibility layer).
+
+## Wish List
+
+* Score keeping
+* Color
+* In-game instructions
+* Sound
+
+## Hosts Tested
+
+* Darwin 10.8.0 i386 (clang 1.6 and gcc 4.2.1)
+* Linux 2.6.32 i686 (clang 1.1 and gcc 4.4.3)
+* Linux 3.2.0 x86\_64 (clang 3.0 and gcc 4.6.3)
+
+## Obfuscations
+
+The code is formatted into a 14-cell shape which will evolve into a glider in
+19 generations.
+
+Lots of globals, including a global struct whose members have the same names
+as global variables.
+
+Global variables getting reused in different contexts.
+
+Huge and convoluted expressions, abusing ternary operators and operator
+precedence.
+
+Lots of magic numbers, abuse of the relationships between magic numbers, and
+abuse of the arithmetic properties of magic numbers.
+
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