Diplomacy! (EDIT: See second page for game details, EDIT2: Game recreated elsewhere.)

[md]

I'm wondering if there is any interest in a play-by-email diplomacy game. Rules are simple, it would be one turn per day with me adjudicating (not playing this round). It'd work best with 7 players, however if there is enough interest to do it with fewer then that could also be arranged.

For rules, etc. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)

[Vermette]

Never played before, but I'm always open to trying new strategy/negotiation games (Mafia/Vampire/Wereolf is also a good one for forum play)

If this does get started, I'm curious what'd you'd use for map respresentation and changes?

[apomb]

The email, just use paint to modify the board.... of course this would require the players to be honest. md, you said you'd adjudicate, so every move would be cc'd to you for verification and adherence to the rules.

This sounds very interesting. I will be checking back on this

[octopi]

There's a free-ware php version of this game you can download.

http://phpdiplomacy.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdiplomacy

[md]

I've been reading about phpdiplomacy too; I may try and set it up on my server in which case I can play too

[DemonWasp]

@apomb: The rules of diplomacy are deterministic, so assuming that md was intending to be the referee, the players couldn't be dishonest.

Of course, md would probably like to play, so perhaps phpdiplomacy would be a good choice.

I'd play, but I'm busy enough as it is; I'd only bog down your game in missed turns and "sorry it's late"s.

[md]

Turns would be one per day... so missing one is a bit hard

[DemonWasp]

No, it really wouldn't be: I'm in another city, completely away from any computer every other weekend. I'm also hosting a play-by-message-board campaign (DnD) and I'm a bit of a slacker about that, so...thanks anyway?

[md]

Oh... yeah that might be difficult. So far it seems that there isn't a lot of interest anyways

[DemonWasp]

If compsci.ca doesn't get you enough interest, you might try posting on one of the many play-by-message-board groups around, or on an appropriate newsgroup. Your best bet would probably be reg.games.diplomacy, though it doesn't appear to be the most active group ever.

[Clayton]

InterestedPlayers++

[md]

so that's 3; we could do this with 5, so two more.

Or I'll work on phpdiplomacy and then we need only 1!

[Clayton]

Indeed

[TheFerret]

I might be up for it if i can get a simple flowthrough of how it would work...

[Aleks]

Count me in too. It sounds interesting ^_^