Re: GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!

From: croatia@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (You Better Work!!)

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000

gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>In article <3u45q2$gqa@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>You Better Work!! <croatia@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>Hm, at this rate, we'll have to re-think our taxonomy of games ;-)

>The essense of play-by-mail is that you don't have to show up at any
>particular time to enter your turn; another way of saying this is that
>pbm games are not real-time. Games such as Berkeley Empire violate
>this rule because they have continuous action, and you end up getting
>up at 4am to fight the enemy. Ugh. From what I can tell, Stellar
>Crisis is a "real time" game and has short deadlines, so it isn't
>play-by-mail. But we shouldn't say a play-by-web game isn't
>play-by-mail just because it has a graphical interface.

Its weekly turns.  (I always hated filling out turns, and the web
offers a great way to do this.)  So, I guess it still fits the PBM mold, but
the interface will have some interactive features.  For example, various
encounters will be similiar to the "Choose Your Own Advernture" style
that is found on the net currently, and character creation will be
interacive, which will hopefully add a new twist.  I believe it should
still be catagorized as a PBM because nothing will be time dependent, but
then, seeing that you can only play it with the web interface, I think
the mail concept becomes misleading, hence, PBW.

steve

>-- greg

References

Re: GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!
"Baldini Luca B." <teiluca@xtsfs01.ericsson.se>
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!
tsmith@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Travis Smith)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!
rhdlamb@ix.netcom.com (Robert Lamb)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: GRAPHICAL PBM's !!!
croatia@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (You Better Work!!)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00:00 +0000