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Starweb (or StarWeb) is a closed-end, space-based, play-by-mail (PBM) game. First published by Flying Buffalo Inc. in 1975, it was the company's second PBM game after Nuclear Destruction, the game that started the PBM industry in 1970. Players today can choose a postal mail or email format.
This is a list of play-by-mail (PBM) games. It includes games played only by postal mail, those played by mail with a play-by-email (PBEM) option, and games played in a turn-based format only by email or other digital format. It is unclear what the earliest play-by mail game is between chess and Go. [2] Diplomacy was first played by mail in ...
The Nuts & Bolts of PBM was a magazine presenting reviews, articles about tactics, and news regarding play-by-mail games. [6] Issues contained an editorial by Rick Buda, artwork, fiction, and content on games. [3] The topics evolved from purely focused on the game Starweb at the outset, to PBM games, and eventually to all game genres. [3]
Four-time Origins Award-winning play-by-mail game Starweb. A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game. [a]) is a game played through postal mail, email, or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go were among the first PBM games.
Loomis designed the Origins Award-winning play-by-mail game Starweb (1976). [8] Nuclear Escalation, a card game released in 1983, had been the subject of a potential ban on all war related toys when two MPs of the UK Labour Party called the game "a nasty twist on the toy industry". Loomis was interviewed as part of this discussion saying "the ...
Star Empires is a space-based play-by-mail (PBM) space opera. Designed and published by Geoff Squibb in 1984 in the United Kingdom, the game was hand-moderated for the first year, later transitioning to computer moderation. Spellbinder Games in the UK later ran the game under license. Later versions included Star Empires II and Star Empires III ...
Star Empires (play-by-mail game) Star Fleet Warlord; Star Saga (play-by-mail game) Star Trek: The Correspondence Game; Star Venture; Starglobe; Starlord (play-by-mail game) Starmaster (play-by-mail game) Stars of the Dark Well; Starship Command (play-by-mail game) Starweb; State of War (play-by-mail game) Strategic Conflict; Strategic Imperial ...
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