connection #1

After reading about Empedocles I immediately thought of a game that I played on my friend’s iPod called doodle god. In this game you “play as god” at the beginning of time and have to create new things. The only way you can create things is by combing four elements: earth, fire, water and air. You have to combine the four elements in many various ways to make new things such as lightning, clay and trees. In this game some of the combinations won’t make anything and you have to try new combinations. In this game everything is made up of earth, wind, water or fire in some way. The thought that everything is made out of the four basic elements is originally the thought of Empedocles.

The four basic elements in the game Doodle God

This game made me think of Empedocles because he believed that everything in the world is made up of four elements: earth, water, fire and air. He believed that you had to combine the elements in different ways to create new things. This game follows the mindset of Empedocles very closely in this game the only way to create things is by using the four elements, just as Empedocles believed.