August 2008

• [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Soyweiser
• [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Peter Harkins
• • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Daniel James
  • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Nick Koranda
  • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Christopher Lloyd
  • • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Nabil Maynard
      On Aug 8, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Christopher Lloyd wrote:
      
      > --- Peter Harkins <ph@malaprop.org> wrote:
      >> On a tangent, does anyone know of a nice name for this class of
      >> games?
      >> Think of games like:
      >>
      >> * Earth 2025
      >> * Ikariam
      >> * Jennifer Government
      >> * Planetarion
      >> * Simcountry
      >> * Trade Wars
      >> * Travian
      >> * Utopia
      >
      > I had a root around , and while I don't have an answer, phrases like,
      > "Massively Multiplayer", "Turn-Based Strategy" and "Online World
      > Simulation" seem to come up. If these games existed in the 90s (without the
      > heavy dependance on internet play), they're probably be labelled
      > "turn-based strategy games".
      
      The terminology for this type of game that I'm most familiar with is
      PBBG: Persistent Browser-Based Game. That's more of an encompassing
      term, however, as it covers games like AdventureQuest, which has no or
      next to no large scale multiplayer element. I'm rather fond of
      CyberNations as a good example of a strategic massively multiplayer
      PBBG.
      
      Though the PBBG Project (http://www.pbbg.org/) is certainly trying to
      gain acceptance of the term, but I'd hardly call it a standard yet.
      
      Nabil
      http://www.criticalgames.com
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      • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Matt Chatterley
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  • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game Soyweiser
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    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Sean Howard
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Aurel
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Caliban Darklock
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
            • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Mike Sellers
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
            • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Sean Howard
        • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD McDonald, Stephen
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD John Szeder
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Crwth
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        • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
          • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Raph Koster
            • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Kerry Fraser-Robinson
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD John Szeder
                • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD cruise
                • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Lachek Butalek
                  • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
                  • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Peter Keeler
                    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
                      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
                    • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Kerry Fraser-Robinson
                    • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD cruise
                      • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Adam Martin
                        • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Acius
                  • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Morris Cox
                  • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jon Mayo
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Michael Hartman
              • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman
              • • Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Raph Koster
      • [Design] Design challenge: Bed-time game John Buehler
• Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD Jeffrey Kesselman