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     Good afternoon, and welcome to another blog installation of weekly update discussions.   In these articles, we at   Evolution Through the Ages   like to discuss the major advancements, both company and game features, that Sean and I have been working on during the previous week's timeframe.        Each Sunday morning, Sean and I get together to discuss tasks for the upcoming week. Additionally during these meetings, we sit down and tweak small components of the game in order to make a more biologically accurate or user-friendly gameplay interface. This week, Sean and I began by integrating a new biological feature into our game; the apoptosis feature.   Apoptosis Update      Apoptosis, or programmed-cellular death, is a mechanistic tool that cellular organisms are able to utilize.  Utilizing this feature, users are able to induce cellular "self-destruct"; where selected organisms will implode...

       Sean and I met up today for our weekly meeting at the local Starbucks.   The topic of our meeting today was death and how this concept would continue to effect organisms within the game world we have created, Evolution Through the Ages .        We discussed how to incorporate the mass extinction events from the geologic time scales from planet Earth’s extensive 4.6 billion year old history.   Especially pertaining the concepts of extinction events triggered by over-competition, CO 2 / O 2 concentrations, and asteroid impacts.      Organisms will soon be able to effectively eliminate a global population of organisms within our game world.   This will occur through a process known as organismal over-competition for limited resources.   Due to a scarcity of resources within the game world, as is the case in the real world, organisms will inevitably result in competition between two di...