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The board game Diplomacy had a really thriving play by post community, which morphed into play by email. I'm actually not sure if there is a platform that actua
by jbattle 9y ago
The board game Diplomacy had a really thriving play by post community, which morphed into play by email. I'm actually not sure if there is a platform that actually supports play-by-email anymore (the ones I used to use seem defunct).
But there's this (claims to support play by email but I couldn't find actual directions in 2 minutes of reading around):
http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/ http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/
When I played this ~10 years ago the main interface was just plain email. You'd send and email with the body containing commands like so:
signon gamename password
A PAR-BUR
A MAR-SPA
F BRE-MAO
signoff
Then there was a website that subscribed to your game as a observer and would render views of the map
- beefsack 9y agoA lot of 18XX games seem to have strong play-by-post communities too, which are interesting from a pure play-by-email perspective because they have already encoded a command vocabulary which could be implemented instead of needing to design from scratch.
- zouhair 9y agoDunno about other games, but Lichess[0] has a correspondence gameplay mechanism[1] [0] https://lichess.org/ https://lichess.org/ [1] https://i.imgur.com/nYgMjuB.png https://i.imgur.com/nYgMjuB.png
- joshklein 9y agoThis is tangential to the play-by-email thread of discussion, but I want to share that I've had a positive experience at http://playdiplomacy.com http://playdiplomacy.com
- rkangel 9y agoWe have an ongoing series of games at work hosted by the wonderfully named service 'backstabbr.com'.