Hi,

I don't have much experience with door games (yet), but I have an idea
where I need your experience:

Until the start of the pandemic, we had a little group of people who
gathered every 2 weeks in the "real world" to play games, mostly board or card games.

Since then, some are meeting online to play some games on sites like "brettspielwelt.de", a german site where you can play board games in the browser or via a Java client.

In the last days, I got the idea to search for door games that I could install in my (Synchronet) BBS which could be played together, so that
some people are online in parallel (on my different nodes) and play simultaniously.

So my question is: What games would you recommend for people to play who don't have much (well, mostly: no) experience in BBSes or door games?
It should be possibl to play the games "live", because we mostly have a
Jitsi or Zoom conference open on another device to talk while playing.

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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Re: Door games for "game night"?
By: acn to All on Sun Jan 03 2021 07:55 pm

Hi,

I don't have much experience with door games (yet), but I have an idea
where I need your experience:

Until the start of the pandemic, we had a little group of people who gathered every 2 weeks in the "real world" to play games, mostly board or card games.

Since then, some are meeting online to play some games on sites like "brettspielwelt.de", a german site where you can play board games in the browser or via a Java client.

In the last days, I got the idea to search for door games that I could install in my (Synchronet) BBS which could be played together, so that
some people are online in parallel (on my different nodes) and play simultaniously.

So my question is: What games would you recommend for people to play who don't have much (well, mostly: no) experience in BBSes or door games?
It should be possibl to play the games "live", because we mostly have a Jitsi or Zoom conference open on another device to talk while playing.

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

I think something like Tradewars would work, because it allows multiple players connecting in paralel and blasting each other to pieces in real time if need be. The learning curve sucks for n00bs and it takes time to get your ship/corporation started.

Crazy idea: if Phantasia could be ported to BBSm, it would rock as a multiplayer interterminal game.

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Am 03.01.21 schrieb Arelor@77:1/114 in SCIGAME:

Hallo Arelor,

I think something like Tradewars would work, because it allows multiple players connecting in paralel and blasting each other to pieces in real
time if need be. The learning curve sucks for n00bs and it takes time to get your ship/corporation started.

Thank you for your answer, but I thought abuot something "easier" to
learn.
I know that TW is one of the best door games, but it also a fairly complex game and thus it is -to be honest- exectly what I did not think about...
And that's because every one of the potential players is a n00b concerning BBS gaming.

Crazy idea: if Phantasia could be ported to BBSm, it would rock as a multiplayer interterminal game.

What's Phantasia and what's BBSm?

Regards,
Anna

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Re: Re: Door games for "game night"?
By: acn to Arelor on Sun Jan 03 2021 09:22 pm

Crazy idea: if Phantasia could be ported to BBSm, it would rock as a multiplayer interterminal game.

What's Phantasia and what's BBSm?

Regards,

Phantasia is a classical inter-terminal game set in Tolkien's Middle Earth. You roam the Middle Earth killing monsters and taking treassure, improving your character et all.

Commonly included in the bsdgames packages of many Linux distributions.

BBSm is supposed to mean "a BBS", but I was typoing hard, it seems.

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So my question is: What games would you recommend for people to play who don't have much (well, mostly: no) experience in BBSes or door games?

Yahoo used to have a cool pool game that people could play against random opponents. It's probably extinct by now though.

Exodus (sysop of Titantic BBS) has like 500 doors, and his BBS is very neat
and easy to navigate. He's a real professional type of sysop. If people were
to have to log in to a BBS, that's the one that will very easy to do it on.

Check em out:

ttb.hopto.org

He's got like Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, tons of stuff. It's like a museum of doors.

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Am 03.01.21 schrieb Arelor@77:1/114 in SCIGAME:

Hallo Arelor,

Phantasia is a classical inter-terminal game set in Tolkien's Middle Earth. You roam the Middle Earth killing monsters and taking treassure, improving your character et all.
Commonly included in the bsdgames packages of many Linux distributions.

Ah okay, thank you!

BBSm is supposed to mean "a BBS", but I was typoing hard, it seems.

Okay, no problem. Now I understand :)

Regards,
Anna

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Am 03.01.21 schrieb Shitty@77:1/142 in SCIGAME:

Hallo Shitty,

Yahoo used to have a cool pool game that people could play against random opponents. It's probably extinct by now though.

Do you mean via the yahoo.com website?

Exodus (sysop of Titantic BBS) has like 500 doors, and his BBS is very neat and easy to navigate. He's a real professional type of sysop. If people
were to have to log in to a BBS, that's the one that will very easy to do
it on.

Check em out:

ttb.hopto.org

He's got like Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, tons of stuff. It's like a museum of doors.

Thanks for that hint, I will look there!

Regards,
Anna

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Yahoo used to have a cool pool game that people could play against rand opponents. It's probably extinct by now though.

Do you mean via the yahoo.com website?

Yea, but I just searched it and found out that "Yahoo pool ended in 2014."

It was cool. You played with a random opponent, and you could chat with them while playing. I used to talk a lot of trash to those poor people when I was losing.

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