Game of Life

"Game of Life" episode one "Flares and Fireflies" is science fiction short film based on "Game of Life", a cellular automaton game invented by John Horton Conway in 1970. It tells a story about a young boy who's following a glitch in the system, presented in real life as a firefly, through numerous portals to the place where he meets a man with the orb that seems to be a way in for a full understanding of the life itself, its origin and the rules it is built on.