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Hi Zach, I'm halfway through EXAPUNKS and loving it !

I was wondering, what do you think about the idea of making a Synthetic Biology inspired game, based on the idea of programming bacteria and/or other living organisms ?

I think it'd be a great idea to play around with ! (though, IRL, we're still at the veeeery beginning of this awesome field of bio-programming. I believe the first "programming language" is called Cello and is still very primitive)

pskia2 karma

True that. The puzzles and story are incredibly immersive when combined !

The most obvious things for bacteria and such to make are things like insulin, medecin and such, but above that, it's rather vague what could be made with it (other than reporgramming bacteria to beat specific diseases, serve as guard dogs, heal wounds... As a bioinformatician I can think of lots of things, but I've got no idea if it'd work well as puzzles XS)