09-03-2016, 06:39 PM
Ixnay,
I was teasing Bob a bit about Episodic Gaming. We had a group, a forum if you will, back ten years or so ago trying to update the moniker of "play by mail" for those of us progressives that were not providing turns by mail. Bob was fervently opposed to the idea. Just myself and the head of a company doing a state-of-the-art space game (I forget the name, but complete GUI and stunning graphics: I think they ran out of money) were in favor, and we never came anywhere near a consensus. The group fell apart. I've sort of given up on the idea as so many players are so sentimentally attached to "PBM", its not worth the effort. One of those "choose your battles" kind of thing.
I would guess 90% of our players are old PBM'ers, but we do have some bright college age kids that are rabid for Alamaze - playing 10 or more games at a time. I'm sure they have no idea why the genre is called play by mail.
I was teasing Bob a bit about Episodic Gaming. We had a group, a forum if you will, back ten years or so ago trying to update the moniker of "play by mail" for those of us progressives that were not providing turns by mail. Bob was fervently opposed to the idea. Just myself and the head of a company doing a state-of-the-art space game (I forget the name, but complete GUI and stunning graphics: I think they ran out of money) were in favor, and we never came anywhere near a consensus. The group fell apart. I've sort of given up on the idea as so many players are so sentimentally attached to "PBM", its not worth the effort. One of those "choose your battles" kind of thing.
I would guess 90% of our players are old PBM'ers, but we do have some bright college age kids that are rabid for Alamaze - playing 10 or more games at a time. I'm sure they have no idea why the genre is called play by mail.