MSG Game Sites

BOARD GAME ARENA	BOARD GAME MEGASITE !! TONS OF PLAYERS !! I'm programming my games for BGA myself, one by one. Each will take about a month. MSG games: Restone, Oust, Rive, Cephalopod, Icebreaker, Dodo, Gopher, Zola, Silo.
AI AI	Download the app. Stephen Tavener's custom programmed apps. High quality AI. MSG games: Icebreaker, Dodo, Zola, Oust, Cephalopod.
LUDII	Download the app. Innumerable MSG games. Scripts written by Michael Amundsen and by Eric Piette. MSG games: Zola, etc., etc., etc.
ig GAME CENTER	Live play. Huge variety of modern abstract games. Programmer and proprietor Arty Sandler created an outstanding game site. Chat translation. MSG games: Atoll, Cephalopod, Crossway, Dipole, Flume (square grid), Mad Bishops, Monkey Queen, Oust (hex grid), Oust (square grid), Rush, Tanbo.
MIND SPORTS	Christian Freeling's game site. Christian is known for such modern classics as Havannah, Dameo, Grand Chess, Emergo, and Symple. MSG games: Zola, Oust (hex grid), Oust (square grid).
LUDOTEKA	Awesome game site. Huge membership. Fast screen updates. Se habla Español, pero there's an English translation. Juan, the proprietor, is a nice guy, phenomenal programmer, and intelligent player. MSG games: Cephalopod.
GAMES BY EMAIL	Great concept. Take your time and play by email. Proprietor and programmer Scott Nesin is a master of the game interface. MSG games: Atoll, Begird, Byte, Cage, Cephalopod, Copolymer, Crossway, Diffusion, Dipole, Impasse, Oust (square grid), Palisade, Quadrature, Rive, Rush, Scribe, Tanbo, X.
SUPER DUPER GAMES	Huge collection of modern abstract games. Super Duper Games is a full featured game site. It's plagued by screen update delays, but is otherwise outstanding. MSG games: Byte, Cage, Cephalopod, Copolymer, Crossway, Diffusion, Dipole, Impasse, Jostle, Mad Bishops, Oust (square grid), Palisade, Quadrature, Rush, Scribe, Tanbo.
JIJ BENT	Excellent players. Dutch site Jijbent has a lot of highly talented players. You have to learn two or three Dutch words to get a game going at Jijbent, but almost all of the members speak perfect English so you can chat while you play. MSG games: Atoll, Dipole.
ITS YOUR TURN	Huge membership. You shouldn't have any trouble finding an opponent. MSG games: Tanbo.
YUCATA	Skilled players. Yucata is a full featured German game site with a selectable English interface. It enjoys a large membership that harbors a lot of talent. Programmer and artist extraordinaire Sven Hilscher did an outstanding job of programming Atoll. MSG games: Atoll, Zola.
BOITE A JEUX	"Marines v.s. Aliens" Cephalopod. Proprietor Fred Meurrens has taken a unique approach to programming one of my most popular games, Cephalopod. Marine (military) faces and alien (outer space) faces are used in place of dice faces. MSG games: Cephalopod.
YOUR TURN MY TURN	American gaming hot spot. YourTurnMyTurn, founded by Bram Schoonhoven of Jij Bent fame, is a hub for talented American abstract game players. MSG games: Atoll, Dipole.
GAMERZ NET	Email based. ASCII interface. Richard Rognlie's email based GamerzNet was the first modern abstract game site and it's still going strong. MSG games: Oust (square grid), Cephalopod, Tanbo, Dipole, Crossway, Scribe, Diffusion.
BRETTSPIELNETZ	Outstanding German game site. Intelligent membership. MSG games: Atoll, Dipole.
BOARD SPACE	Snappy real time interface. Very life-like experience. MSG games: Dipole.
IGFIP	Lightning fast interface. Very life-like play. MSG games: Redstone, Oust (square grid), Tanbo.
GILES	Telnet Game Site. telnet ripley.thenexusproject.org 9435 MSG games: Crossway.
GOLD TOKEN	Iron fisted moderation. "Dear Leader" management. The most prominent feature of GoldToken is its maniacal control over its discussion forums. If you type "omg", for example, the omg turns red and the Send button grays out. Conversations that develop an off color tenor are instantly expunged and replaced with stern warnings of "further action". Gold Token once attempted an "anything goes" forum. No topic was to be off limits. The new forum was online for about ten minutes, as I recall, before being permanently dismantled. Discussion of the short lived forum was then curtailed. OMG! GoldToken enjoys a large, very sociable membership that doesn't seem to mind the Orwellian atmosphere. Exchange cake recipes, discuss your critical ailments, and receive electronic sympathy cards. GoldToken has a large number of abstract games, a great many of which are minor variants of Checkers. GoldToken has a remarkable scarcity of good players, considering its large membership. It has now formed affiliations with professional game associations in an effort to turn around its sappy image, but it's got a long road ahead of it. The master plan is to create a hub for world class players who are well mannered and compliant - all five of them. MSG games: Dipole.