New: Rugby League Breakout (commercial, open-ended, www, computer, modern, sports)

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:14:36 +0000

Name:		Rugby League Breakout
Costs:		averages 1 GB pound/turn
URL:		http://www.rugbyleaguebreakout.com
Frequency:		one per week
Email:		danny@pbmsports.com
Type:		sports
Last-Update:		2001Nov13
Keywords: commercial, open-ended, www, computer, modern, sports

Description:

Rugby League Breakout is a league simulation of rugby league which works
entirely on the net. It's reasonably easy to pick up and play and allows
you to run your own team in a league against other rugby league teams run
by other players like yourself. Games are decided by your decisions as
coach.

The game has been designed as an internet game for Rugby League fans, not
a Rugby League game for fans of internet games.

It's not a computer game or a play-by-mail game adapted for play on the
internet and it's not a promotional game designed to sell you something
else.

It's designed to give you the chance to play your own rugby league team in
a league against other rugby league teams run by other players like
yourself. The results of games are decided by comparing the two teams and
the choices made by the coaches.

Compared to our award-winning play-by-mail games, we've concentrated on
making the rules and reports shorter and simpler. We want this to be a
game that you can pick and play quickly because this is what we think
people want from an internet game.

Rather than build a simulation that tries to match what happens in real
life we've come at this game from the opposite direction, looking for
what's essential in a game about Rugby League and what we think the
players in the game will want to do.

So in Rugby League Breakout we don't bother with the battles for
possession and position. You get the ball a fixed number of times in fixed
positions, and then you go head to head against your opponent to decide
what you can achieve with that position.

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