Break Into Chat

Tag: door games

  • Solar Realms Elite memories

    Solar Realms Elite memories

    What made SRE magical was the number of people who were playing at the time I encountered it. These games were not meant to be played solo; they were meant to be social experiences as you tried to dominate other players and build the mightiest empire. And when I began playing, SRE was a popular…

  • BBS doors: innovative social games?

    I came across a fantastic essay written by Andrew Chen in 2009: BBS door games: Social gaming innovation from the 1980s He makes the case that BBS door games pioneered many techniques used today by social games. I think he’s right on, especially in this passage: You may notice from all of these screenshots that…

  • BBS Documentary clip: TradeWars

    Here’s a short segment from the BBS: The Documentary where folks discuss TradeWars (There’s also a mention of Legend of the Red Dragon.) I am a big fan of Jason Scott and of the documentary. It was very thorough on many topics, and included wonderful chapters about the artscene and Fidonet among other things. One…

  • So it begins.

    So it begins.

    Wikipedia deleted Space Empire Elite. Well, they killed the article, anyway.

  • The birth of “Break Into Chat”

    The birth of “Break Into Chat”

    In October 2012 I logged into Wikipedia and found three alerts waiting for me: “Proposed deletion of Space Empire Elite” “Proposed deletion of Space Dynasty” “Proposed deletion of Solar Realms Elite” Not good, I thought.