Atlantis PbeM
Atlantis is played by e -mail turn-based fantasy strategy game. The original English version of Atlantis was developed on the basis of the game of Olympic Russel Wallace, the first batch began in April 1993. Improvements were incorporated into the versions of the following years. A German translation was made in 1995 by Alex Schröder, goes by the name German Atlantis and has been developed up to version 6.2.
Process and aim of the game
The game is designed for any number of players, the game world is divided into a number of islands that are inhabited by the parties of the players. The parties consist of recruited by the players units here, can learn the various talents such as magic, fighting skills and the required for the production of buildings, ships and weapons skills.
An official game goal or end game is not the case, each party is left to itself, what and how he tries to reach it. An entry is possible at any time, new players are thereby " exposed " in uninhabited regions.
Each turn follows an evaluation that included this ' newspaper ' allows players open to all representations of their party, as opposed to made by e -mail secret negotiations between individual players.
The evaluation is text-based, but there are free programs available that convert the evaluation in graphic and assist in the creation of moves.
Most current games are free, developed by Alex Schröder software is free, but must not be used commercially.
German Atlantis
German Atlantis is based on the English original Atlantis 1.0 of Russel Wallace. It was in the summer of 1995, translated by Alex Schröder and further developed by him up to version 6.2. All of today's Atlantis versions based on them.
Eressea
Eressea launched in 1996 on the basis of German Atlantis. The game comes with it for about 700 rounds. In April 2009 Eressea had nearly 600 parties. The player climax had Eressea with over 2000 parties, currently the trend slightly downwards. Since December 2008, applications are no longer possible.
For Eressea a client program called Magellan has been developed that supports the player in the Zugauswertung and planning and visualized the game world in a map.