I lost... ANYWAYS, I think I used to own this GAME, but it was a while back, had something to do with using founded materials to forge tents and attempt to stay alive.
I might be thinking of another GAME, but im not sure!
Though, if your looking for a really cool and fun GAME, I recommend PANDEMIC!
It is not like the computer GAME, you must do exactly the opposite!
You have to fight with friends or even by yourself, if you like a challenge, to create cures for city's that can suddenly go amoke with virus! This amazing chain reaction, TD kind'ove GAME is something I think anyone could play!
(I havn't beaten it yet )

I played the "Game of Life" a few times, both the board game and the cellular automata

I wrote a 2-D cellular automata program before. It was pretty fast after some optimizations and it also let you choose a ruleset other than Conway's Game of Life. I abandoned the project after a bug creeped into the menu system that I could not identify, nor fix.