I remember a few months back doing an idle tour of Wikipedia for text and browser based games. The content was slim, sometimes non-existent, and often disputed. A few months later and little has changed. A few people, Moocats among them, has added bits and pieces which are growing slowly.

Particularly evident is that few open source games in the strain of using server-side source code are evident. I think LOGD perhaps is the only such with an article present – seems a bit thin on the ground really. Related to BNT/AAT the closest seems to be the TradeWars article.

Anyways, I’m thinking of throwing my hat in the ring and attempting to write an objective article or two to fill in the obvious gaps. Not sure how that’ll be received but the hope is to shed some light on these subjects and flesh out any pre-existing articles. If Moocats is reading (and I know you do on occassion ;-)) maybe you can contact me and we’ll collaborate on this – I’d prefer to do so rather than edge a few edits here and there to avoid over-writing your contribution (which first caught my attention). Anyone else interested feel free to chip in – no forum but comments are there for now. My email address is .

The problems as I see them in the articles to date are fairly simple. The information given, though informative, is too small. Browser Games or Text Games are a broad subject with a lot of details regarding implementations, requirements, etc. If these were addressed the articles would be pretty good, and open up the field to subsequent discussions on additional contributions. As it stands though its a summary without depth.

I’ll wait a while and see what response this blog gets, I know its not exactly viewable by everyone in browser based game related hobbies/jobs so I added to the current discussion on Wikipedia also.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_game

Possible articles:

Browser based games
Text based games
PHP games – links over to Browser based games and Text based games as related

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