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| - | ====== Moderated Games ====== | + | ======= Shared Worlds ======= |
| + | "Shared Worlds" are primarily alternate history (but also sci-fi, fantasy, historical etc.) [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayByPostGames|Play-By-Post (PBP) games]] of AH.com. They can be anything from RPGs to strategies to simulations. | ||
| + | ==== How are they organized ? ==== | ||
| + | Unlike other forums on the [[offtopic:new board|AH.com Board]], the Shared Worlds Forum has three special subforums, each representing one thematically and technically different and specific type of play-by-post game. These are : | ||
| + | **[[shared worlds:Moderated Games]]** - A [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=229|subforum]] for moderated games. Games here require moderator approval. | ||
| + | **[[shared worlds:Nation Games]]** - This [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=245|subforum]] is for nation games, where each participant takes control of a historical or fictional nation. | ||
| + | **[[shared worlds:Map Games]]** - The [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=246|subforum]] for map games, where people play by modifying the same map, usualy one turn at a time. | ||
| - | ===== Intro ===== | + | All other Shared Worlds games that don't fit one of the above three subforums simply go into : |
| - | The [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=229|Moderated Games Forum]] mostly consists of role-playing nations games where you, in theory, get to control your own nation, while negotiating and warring with those of other players. Notable Moderated Games include [[Mosaic Earth]] and [[Feudal Lands]], [[NationStates]], based on the [[http://www.nationstates.net/|NationStates]] site, which went nowhere, and Nation Games, which inspired a number of variants, including the Small Nations Game (SNG), the Continuous Nation Game (CNG) and the Technological Nation Game (TNG). The subforums hold the 2nd and 3rd A Little Trip games, currently dead, where your family and you are transported through space and time to start living as pioneers, and Earth Imperialism, also dead. The [[XXth Century]] project was also based in the Shared Worlds section (now in Timelines and Scenarios as well as the Collaborative Projects subforum), as many members have contributed to this joint timeline. Also, a new phenomenon is Nation Games, based on the first game, New Interactive Nations Game (NING for short). Started by [[offtopic:09camaro]], it features an interestuing feature where one starts with his slate clean after an apocalyptic event, and gets to expand with other players. NING, Nations Game: After Impact, and Nations Game: After the Plague are all examples. | + | **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=15|The Master Shared Worlds Forum]]** - The aforementioned main SW Forum, identical to the one you enter when clicking on Shared Worlds in the AH.com board's main menu. |
| - | ===== Active Members ===== | + | For convenience sake, we'll also list frequent game categories that don't have their own subforum and simply appear in the main SW forum. These include : |
| + | **[[shared worlds:Roleplaying Games]]** | ||
| - | The current roster of Moderated Games players includes: | + | **[[shared worlds:Other SW Games|Other Shared World Games]]** |
| + | ==== Are there any exceptions to this ? ==== | ||
| - | [[offtopic:Agentdark]] | + | A bit. Though most games have been moved to SW over the years, not all of them are in the Shared World Forum. |
| - | [[offtopic:Communist Wizard]] | + | For instance, //**[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=84835|DBWI: Well, it looks like the second american civil war is in full swing]]**// from the [[alternate_history:Future History]] forum was a thread game of a different stripe (primarily roleplaying in nature). Several other of these unconventional thread games exist, such as [[offtopic:August Akuma]]'s //**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=109748|World Domination Thread]]**//, or the ASB Map games, like //**[[shared_worlds:End of Dystopia Map Game]]**//, //**[[shared_worlds:aa2|American Administration]]**//, etc. |
| - | [[offtopic:Fenwick]] | + | ==== Shared Worlds Technological Encyclopedia ==== |
| - | [[offtopic:Augustus Montes]] | + | The **[[shared_worlds:shared_worlds_technological_encyclopedia#Shared Worlds Technological Encyclopedia]]** page is a project to aid Shared Worlds members. It is currently on hold. |
| - | [[offtopic:TheShah]] | ||
| - | [[offtopic:Sir Scott]] | ||
| - | ===== Famous Characters ===== | ||
| - | [[offtopic:Kirov]] | ||
| - | ===== Glossary ===== | ||
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| - | **Translations of common phrases** | ||
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| - | * "My country is authoritarian" - I would like to be invaded at the first opportunity. | ||
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| - | * "My country is democratic" - I am going to rule and make decisions as God-Emperor. | ||
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| - | * "My country does not have nukes" - My country will develop nuclear weapons one week after the ISOT. | ||
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| - | * "I claim China/India" - I claimed a country not only with 1 billion people, but also $1,000 trillion GDP created by my POD. | ||
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| - | * "I'm gonna make a second claim" - My plan to take over the world with only one country was thwarted by similarly-minded players. | ||
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| - | * "Fenpire/Fenpan" - 1. Simple terms to explain the oddity which is anything Fenwick touches. 2. After CNG: Eod of Darkness, in which Fenwick crated a Japanese superpower (Fenpan/Fenpire), the term is used to describe any nation outside of Europe which people feel is to powerful. Ex: "Your China is looking exactly like the Fenpire!" | ||
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| - | * "Let's give this game a chance" (uttered by moderator) - This game is dead, flee as soon as possible. | ||
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| - | * "Your claim/military is unreasonable/big" - Your claim/military is wrong, but I'm only saying this because I don't want you interfering with my plans for global conquest. | ||
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| - | * "Yous population figure is too high" - Your population is wrong, but I'm only saying this so that I can conquer you easily later. | ||
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| - | * "The ISOT date is X" - Every nation can have the most advanced technology from that date, even though the nation is from the third world. | ||
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| - | ===== History ===== | ||
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| - | === Mosaic Earth === | ||
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| - | From its uncharted infancy in the Old Board, [[Shared_Worlds:Mosaic Earth]] and its spin-offs have created a niche on the board. It survived the migration to the New Board, spewing a chaos of threads during the first year of existence. By 2005, the games became more organized, and a superior bureaucracy gave birth to Mosaic Earth 7, considered by many to be the pinnacle of Shared Worlds at the time. In its wake came the well-patterned games of Late '05 and First Quarter 2006. However, the quality of the games soon started to decline, partly due to the competition presented from Feudal Lands, A Little Trip and their spin-offs. Mosaic World games, organized mainly by [[offtopic:Ward]], faired extremely poorly, with the exception of the 1st and 4th installments. The majority of the oldest ME-players abandoned the game in 2006. | ||
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| - | === Feudal Lands === | ||
| - | Originally an ASB thread, [[shared_worlds:Feudal Lands]] was organized into a game by [[offtopic:Chingo360]], [[offtopic:Highlander]] and [[offtopic:Straha]]. Soon after its origin it was dubbed a "claim fest", and all attempts to reform its gameplay failed. The game varried in that players were only allowed to claim nations with populations of 25 million or less, and those nations had to be from between 1938 and 1942. | ||
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| - | * Feudal Lands the Game (Early - Late December '05) | ||
| - | * Feudal Lands II (Early - Late January '06) | ||
| - | * Feudal Lands Europe (Mid February - Late April '06) | ||
| - | * Feudal Lands IV (Mid - Late November '06) | ||
| - | === Nations Games === | ||
| - | [[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=72724|NING]] was also originally an ASB thread, but was moved to the SW forum. Created by [[offtopic:09camaro]], it was a post-apocalyptic game where one carved out a small nations in the midst of barbarian lands and expanded. This new idea was expanded and improved by [[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=79711|Nations Game: After Impact]] and [[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=83839|Nations Game: After the Plague]] (NING's true-er successor) In general, NING games last longer than other Shared World's games. NING won the [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/alternate_history/2008_winners|2008 Turtledove Award]] for the Superlative Shared Worlds category... much to its creator's suprise. | ||
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| - | Throughout late 2008 and early 2009 the NGs began to fall apart, with many games lasting less than a month. In February of 2009, a new type of game was attempted; the Small Nations Game (SNG). It was, in effect, an attempt to recreate Feudal Lands under a different name. The game initially seemed popular, but by March it too had fallen apart. | ||
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| - | This collapse instigated the rise of a new game type; the Fenwickian Nation Game (FNG). | ||
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| - | ^ **List of launched Shared Worlds games** ^^^^ | ||
| - | ^ NG Name ^ Start date ^ Duration ^ Days played ^ | ||
| - | | NING | 2007 | Early October '07 - Mid February '08 | 121 | | ||
| - | | NG: After Impact | 1830(?) | Late December '07 - Mid May '08 | 140 | | ||
| - | | NG: After the Plague | 1920 | Early February '08 - Mid April '08| 81 | | ||
| - | | NG: Earth Rise | 2060 | Early April-Late June '08 | 44 | | ||
| - | | Shared Worlds Tournament | 1950 | Late July '08 - Late August '08 | 40 | | ||
| - | | NG: 1901 | 1901 | Early November - Mid December '08 | 42 | | ||
| - | | NG: 1976 | 2000 | December '08 | 23 | | ||
| - | | NG: Fracturing Empire | 2158 | Late December '08 - Early February '09 | 36 | | ||
| - | | NG: 1919 | 1949 | Early January '09 - Early February '09 | 31 | | ||
| - | | NG: 2060 | 2060 | Early February '09 - Late February '09 | 13 | | ||
| - | | SNG: 1942 | 1942 | Late February '09 - Early March '09 | 16 | | ||
| - | | FNG: 1910 | 1950 | Mid March '09 - Late March '09 | 17 | | ||
| - | | FNG: Renaissance | 2005 | Early April '09 - Early May '09 | 34 | | ||
| - | | FNG: Century of Peace | 1971 | Mid May '09 - Late May '09 | 36 | | ||
| - | | FNG: Colonization | 2032 | Early June '09 - Mid June '09 | 8 | | ||
| - | | FNG: Absolute Power | 1750 | Late June '09 - Early July '09 | 17 | | ||
| - | | ME: Divided Earth | 1958 | Mid July '09 - Late July '09 | 17 | | ||
| - | | FNG: 2035 | 2034 | Late July, '09 - Mid August '09 | 19 | | ||
| - | | NG: Genesis | 1930 | Mid August '09 - Late August '09 | 8 | | ||
| - | | CNG: Rise of Empires | 1780 | Late August '09 - Late October '09 | 53 | | ||
| - | | CNG: Imperial Victory | 1600 | Late October '09 - Mid January '10 | 84 | | ||
| - | | CNG: Dark Age of Empires | 900 | Mid January '10 - Mid February '10 | 31 | | ||
| - | | CNG: Requiem | 1450 | Late February '10 - Mid May '10 | 81 | | ||
| - | | NG: A New Dawn | 1945 | Mid May '10 - Early June '10 | 15 | | ||
| - | | TNG: 1550 | 1550 | Mid June '10 - Late June '10 | 6 | | ||
| - | | CNG: End of Darkness | 1600 | Early July '10 - Late October '10 | 117 | | ||
| - | | CNG: Sprawl | 1450 | Early November '10 - Early January '11 | 67 | | ||
| - | | NG: Entropy of Empires | 1794 | Mid January '11 - Late April 2011 | ? | | ||
| - | | CNG: New Dawsn | 1861 | ? | ? | | ||
| - | | FNG: Oncoming Storm | 1939 | ? | ? | | ||
| - | | CNG: Age of War | 1750 | ? | ? | | ||
| - | | NG: Rebirth of Nations | 1905 | ? | ? | | ||
| - | | CNG: Crescent Ascendant | 1650 | Early January 2012 - Ongoing | M.A. | | ||
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| - | === Thread Games === | ||
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| - | Not all shared worlds are in the Shared World Forum. "DBWI: Well, it looks like the second american civil war is in full swing", the [[alternate_history:longest threads|longest thread]] in the [[alternate_history:Future History]] forum, is a thread game of a different stripe. Several of these unconventional thread games exist, such as [[offtopic:August Akuma]]'s [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=109748|World Domination Thread]], or the ASB Map games, like [[shared_worlds:End of Dystopia Map Game]], [[shared_worlds:aa2|American Administration]] or others. | ||
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| - | ===== Shared Worlds Technological Encyclopedia ===== | ||
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| - | The [[shared_worlds:shared_worlds_technological_encyclopedia#Shared Worlds Technological Encyclopedia]] page is a project to aid Shared Worlds members. It is currently on hold. | ||
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| - | ===== Sandbox Republic of AH.com ===== | ||
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| - | A forum game founded by [[offtopic/09camaro|010camaro]] as a successor to [[offtopic/ah.com_politics|AH.com Politics]]. For more information, please visit the Sandbox Republic's subsection: | ||
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| - | [[Sandbox_Republic|Sandbox Republic of AH.com]] | ||
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| - | ==Sandbox D&D Game== | ||
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| - | [[shared_worlds:dnd_characters|Character Roster]] | ||
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| - | [[shared_worlds:dnd_campaign|Campaign Info]] | ||
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| - | ===== Map Games ===== | ||
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| - | **[[shared worlds:Map Continuation I]]** | ||
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| - | **[[shared worlds:Map Continuation II]]** | ||
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| - | **[[shared worlds:Map Continuation III]]** | ||
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| - | **[[shared worlds:Countries of an Alternate World*]]** | ||
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| - | **[[shared worlds:Countries of an Alternate World 2*]]** | ||