Re: Terminology

From: "MindShift Design" <admin@mindshiftdesign.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:32:22 +0000

"Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com> wrote in message
news:8t9l2q0193a@news2.newsguy.com...
> "MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying  to de-fuzzy-fy things. We're talking about two different
things
> > here
> >
> > 1) The processing system - real time / delayed time
> > 2) The delivery/play medium - offline / online
>
> So other people were using "online" to refer to what you meant by
> "real time". It's not that interesting to discuss semantics.

For you perhaps Greg. Personally I enjoy it. That was the whole point of the
original post - to show my thoughts on the terminology used in gaming and
that there IS a lot of fuzziness when it comes to defining terms and what
terms apply to certain things. I'm not trying to pigeonhole everything, just
trying to clear my own thoughts on gaming and gain the benefit of talking to
others about it.

> BTW, there are turn-based games which are more like real time. Trade
> Wars, Empire, and BSE. Everyone thinks the 3rd is a pbm because it's
> played by postal mail.

So, BSE isn't play by mail but it's played by mail ? I think that's a
semantical argument there ... unless you care to define exactly what "pbm"
exactly, if it's not a game played by postal mail ?

I'd class any game played by mail as a "delayed time" game as there is a
substantial delay between the turns being processed, delivered, responded to
and reposted to the moderator. So my original statement about "real time"
being server side only should more likely be that "real time" games have a
limit of around 5 minutes for turn interaction between player and
moderater/program.

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Jason Paul McCartan - jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com
CEO/President
MindShift Design LLC
http://www.mindshiftdesign.com

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References

Re: Terminology
"MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:18:49 +0000
Re: Terminology
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:11:06 +0000