Re: Recommended Games

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:57:17 +0000

>>It matters a lot when you're considering running a game with 1
turn/day or 1 turn/week. So when you see people talking about "a
play-by-web game can be considered PBM if it is turn-based", they mean
not only that it's turn-based, but the turns are sufficiently long.<<

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Greg on this one.  (No jokes please).  Its really
not turn-based simply because its not real-time, as far as PBM is concerned.
Its a bit hard to actually argue the point though, since many people have
already accepted Chess as a PBM.

Actually, this has the potential to be quite interesting.  I feel a debate...

Lets see...
Chess, *isnt* really a PBM, its a game which *can* be played by mail, but that
doesnt make it actually a play-by-mail game.  Murky waters indeed.

A true turn-based game, perhaps, by our newer definitions, is one which was
deliberately designed to be played *primarily* in turns, rather than one which
just *can be* played in turns.

This would make Monopoly a game which could be played by mail, but not truly
turn-based, or AD&D indeed.  In the same way, turn-based games *could* often be
played over the table, or in real time even, but thats not what they were
created to be.

Im just thinking aloud here.  Thoughts, anybody?

Steve T.

References

Re: Recommended Games
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 11 May 2002 20:30:58 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Recommended Games
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 11 May 2002 20:30:58 +0000