Does anyone have any suggestions for some fun email based games? I have
never played any before, I don't know if any exist.
I guess I have some turn-based strategy like game in mind. I wanted to
see If I could get a friend to play across the Net.
The requirements are it needs to run on Gentoo(me) and Windows(him) (or
be able to run fine in vmware for me). Oh, and it needs to be fun : )
Thanks,
Jim
There's an entire website devoted to over a hundred such games.
Check out Richard Rognlie's gamerz.net. In particular the PlayByEMail
(PBEM) section at http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/
Some of the games are pretty active -- renju often has a score of games
starting or ending each day. You'l also have no problem finding
chess or go opponents.
For a similar turn-based experience, you can try the web-based
LittleGolem at http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/index.jsp -- the pace
is very similar, and you can get email notifications when it's your
turn, but viewing the game and making moves is done via a browser.
There are not as many distinct games as exist on gamerz, because
that system allows third parties to write the game engine, so there
are contributors who've added to the collection.
Enjoy!
++ kevin
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
