Re: Republic of Rome Adjudicator

From: ww@csn.net (Wil Walker)

Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 04:18:37 +0000

Cory Ridgway (csr@crash.cts.com) wrote:

>   I was told that a Judge server for Republic of Rome exists.  Does
> anyone know if there is such an Adjudicator?  And if so, will you
> please tell me where to find it.

There is a PBEM adjudicator for Republic of Rome.  I wrote it and
debugged it extensively for over a year.  Hundreds of games were
played; mostly solitaire but dozens of multi-player games too.
Unfortunately I had to shut down the server when I changed jobs.

Anyone interested in the future (or the past) of this RoR adjudicator
may send me their name and email address; I am keeping a list of
interested parties to inform if another server should become
available.

Let me also take this opportunity to strongly encourage any aspiring
game programmers to write an email-based game.  I think it's
hands-down the best way to play a multi-player strategy game.  It's
easier than you may think to throw together a text-based interface
using a parser generator like yacc.  Let me also suggest that you
design the game itself from scratch, rather than implementing someone
else's copyrighted game system; it's more rewarding and you'll own all
the rights.  And there's no rocket science in game design; if you've
played a variety of games you can probably design one.  All it takes
is a little bit of vision, some programming, and lots of playtesting.

And when it's ready, let me know; I want to play it.

Will Walker
ww@csn.org

References

Republic of Rome Adjudicator
csr@crash.cts.com (Cory Ridgway)
Sat, 31 Dec 1994 03:09:00 +0000