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2006-05-30 00:12:19 |
Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email based
games? I have
never played any before, I don't know if any exist.
I guess I have some turn-based strategy like game in mind.
I wanted to
see If I could get a friend to play across the Net.
The requirements are it needs to run on Gentoo(me) and
Windows(him) (or
be able to run fine in vmware for me). Oh, and it needs to
be fun : )
Thanks,
Jim
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2006-05-30 00:40:03 |
JimD wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email
based games? I have
> never played any before, I don't know if any exist.
Call me old-fashioned, but I enjoy a good game of e-mail
chess from time
to time. 
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2006-05-30 01:14:58 |
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 17:40 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> JimD wrote:
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun
email based games? I have
> > never played any before, I don't know if any
exist.
>
> Call me old-fashioned, but I enjoy a good game of
e-mail chess from time
> to time.
Civilisation 4 has a "play by email" mode.
Never tried it though.
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2006-05-30 02:58:09 |
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On 5/29/06, JimD <keeliegirl.dyndns.org">Jimkeeliegirl.dyndns.org> wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email based games? I have
never played any before, I don't know if any exist.
I guess I have some turn-based strategy like game in mind. ; I wanted to
see If I could get a friend to play across the Net.
The requirements are it needs to run on Gentoo(me) and Windows(him) (or
be able to run fine in vmware for me). Oh, and it needs to be fun : )
Thanks,
Jim
There's an entire website devoted to over a hundred such games.
Check out Richard Rognlie's gamerz.net. In particular the PlayByEMail
(PBEM) section at http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/
Some of the games are pretty active -- renju often has a score of games
starting or ending each day. You'l also have no problem finding
chess or go opponents.
For a similar turn-based experience, you can try the web-based
LittleGolem at http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/index.jsp -- the pace
is very similar, and you can get email notifications when it's your
turn, but viewing the game and making moves is done via a browser.
There are not as many distinct games as exist on gamerz, because
that system allows third parties to write the game engine, so there
are contributors who've added to the collection.
Enjoy!
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2006-05-30 04:53:30 |
JimD wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email
based games? I have
> never played any before, I don't know if any exist.
>
> I guess I have some turn-based strategy like game in
mind. I wanted to
> see If I could get a friend to play across the Net.
>
> The requirements are it needs to run on Gentoo(me) and
Windows(him) (or
> be able to run fine in vmware for me). Oh, and it
needs to be fun : )
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
Thanks everyone. Some of these look pretty cool.
Jim
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2006-05-30 08:17:44 |
060529 JimD wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email
based games?
> I guess I have some turn-based strategy like game in
mind.
The International Correspondence Chess Federation is
well-established :
http://testarea.ic
cf-webchess.com/
Diplomacy is also played a lot via Internet, eg :
http://www.diplom.org/
You should find some very challenging opponents there.
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