Re: New Game Ideas

From: rwallace@tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 18:56:30 +0000

In <358f5i$hdi@ionews.io.org> skeezix@io.org (Jeff Mitchell) writes:

>Anyone want to get in on a new game?

>I'm a programmer and graphic artist... whose been coding accounting
>software and database crap for far too long (couple years).. I write a
>million other little utilities and the like, just like every other unix
>hacker on the planet..

>Anyway, I've been looking for a project of late.. you see, I've gone back
>to school, and now I have nothing to do...

>So it occurred to me that I've never written a pbem game. I've written
>various other types of games, online services, and junk, and several
>little rpg's and wargames when I was a kiddo..

>So, if you have any ideas for a game, email me - let me know.. if we can
>come up with something neat, then I'll very likely start work on it.

>Military, fantasy, scifi.. whatever. I like strategic wargames in the
>scifi sense, but there is no need to limit it to that.. I admire
>Civilization (a game for DOS) (and an Avalon Hill game, but the comp
>verison is faster :) .. and the EMPIRE game of the net (and the
>DOS/Mac/ST/Amiga game of the same name).. and such as that.. but a
>fantasy conquest could be cool with a neat premise.. (The Zelazney Amber
>books?) Or a gateway of scifi and fantasy?

>If you have any ideas.. let me know... I'll post a summary of ideas, if I
>get any (I hope :)

I've written a total of 3 PBEM games so far... the type I'm most
interested in at the moment is open-ended games with a combination of
strategy and roleplaying, like my own Atlantis or Rich Skrenta's
Olympia.  I was thinking it'd be cool to do one of those, except a
combination of fantasy and science fiction, rather than just pure
fantasy, but I don't have time at the moment, but if you want to do one
I'd be happy to give what help I could.

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie

References

New Game Ideas
skeezix@io.org (Jeff Mitchell)
Thu, 15 Sep 1994 03:30:57 +0000

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New Game Ideas
skeezix@io.org (Jeff Mitchell)
Thu, 15 Sep 1994 03:30:57 +0000