So, a year later: how's it going? :)

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Den torsdag 27 november 2014 kl. 14:16:37 UTC+1 skrev D Johnson:

On Friday, November 14, 2014 1:08:56 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:

So how's it going? :)

Not heard back from Chris yet, just PMed him again. How are you? Are you an old player?

Dean

Hi, yeah I'm an old player, feeling nostalghia :)

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If I don't reply to mail in one day, it means something's wrong. Please follow up. I get digests for the group, but I don't read them with any regularity so contacting me here won't be reliable at all.

I'm building a Minecraft world with my daughter right now, but that's on a separate machine so I still have plenty of capacity on my main machine.

Good hunting,
Chris

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And another year without WLTP goes by ;)

Any thoughts on what you're going to do with the game, Dean?

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I last heard from him 2 years ago.

I'd prefer to keep the game creator in the driver's seat or at least in the loop, but I might be able to recreate the game if I have a sufficient description of game play. If such was online at any point, the best place to find it would be The Wayback
Machine.

Chris

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I doubt you would find much out there, it really was in the days of Paper play.

Dean

On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 5:45:17 PM UTC, Chris Babcock wrote:

I last heard from him 2 years ago.

I'd prefer to keep the game creator in the driver's seat or at least in the loop, but I might be able to recreate the game if I have a sufficient description of game play. If such was online at any point, the best place to find it would be The Wayback

Machine.

Chris

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On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 3:45:22 PM UTC+1, D Johnson wrote:

I doubt you would find much out there, it really was in the days of Paper play.

Dean

On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 5:45:17 PM UTC, Chris Babcock wrote:

I last heard from him 2 years ago.

I'd prefer to keep the game creator in the driver's seat or at least in the loop, but I might be able to recreate the game if I have a sufficient description of game play. If such was online at any point, the best place to find it would be The

Wayback Machine.

Chris

Hi there

I'd love to know if there was any chance of reviving the game or something close to it. I played in both incarnations (and Corporate Power afterwards) and was just reminiscing the other day that we even used to meet at a pub in Soho to scheme, plot our
next moves and drink. Amazingly, 30 years later I still play games just across the street. I think I still have the rules although not the actual system obviously. Do you have Dean? WAS there even a system? ;) There must have been something. It was
always well run.

Hap

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I'm interested in recreating games of this genre using mobile and web
forms for order submissions. Having the rules would be enough for me
to work with. I make best effort to include and credit the original
game creator. Dean has written a couple times, but (as you can see above) he doesn't have
code or any other material to contribute. Please send me the rules or
whatever you have offlist.

Chris


On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 12:49:41 PM UTC-7, haphazard wrote:

On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 3:45:22 PM UTC+1, D Johnson wrote:

I doubt you would find much out there, it really was in the days of Paper play.

Dean

On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 5:45:17 PM UTC, Chris Babcock wrote:

I last heard from him 2 years ago.

I'd prefer to keep the game creator in the driver's seat or at least in the loop, but I might be able to recreate the game if I have a sufficient description of game play. If such was online at any point, the best place to find it would be The

Wayback Machine.

Chris

Hi there

I'd love to know if there was any chance of reviving the game or something close to it. I played in both incarnations (and Corporate Power afterwards) and was just reminiscing the other day that we even used to meet at a pub in Soho to scheme, plot our

next moves and drink. Amazingly, 30 years later I still play games just across the street. I think I still have the rules although not the actual system obviously. Do you have Dean? WAS there even a system? ;) There must have been something. It was
always well run.

Hap

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Den söndag 25 juni 2017 kl. 03:34:57 UTC+2 skrev Chris Babcock:

he doesn't have
code or any other material to contribute.

Did he buy the rights to the game without receiving any "backoffice" material whatsoever? Seems highly unlikely to me.

Jacob

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I have all the back office material.

THERE WAS NO CODE, it was totally hand moded.

The universe was a set of index cards for Planets/Geo Sector/Eco sector!

Dean


On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 10:00:45 AM UTC+1, Jacob Andersson wrote:

Den söndag 25 juni 2017 kl. 03:34:57 UTC+2 skrev Chris Babcock:

he doesn't have
code or any other material to contribute.

Did he buy the rights to the game without receiving any "backoffice" material whatsoever? Seems highly unlikely to me.

Jacob

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Contact me if you want to sell it. It's a pity it's not available to play.

Den söndag 4 februari 2018 kl. 14:16:40 UTC+1 skrev D Johnson:

I have all the back office material.

THERE WAS NO CODE, it was totally hand moded.

The universe was a set of index cards for Planets/Geo Sector/Eco sector!

Dean

On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 10:00:45 AM UTC+1, Jacob Andersson wrote:

Den söndag 25 juni 2017 kl. 03:34:57 UTC+2 skrev Chris Babcock:

he doesn't have
code or any other material to contribute.

Did he buy the rights to the game without receiving any "backoffice" material whatsoever? Seems highly unlikely to me.

Jacob

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Yearly bump :) I'd still buy the game if you'd let me, Dean.

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On Saturday, 17 November 2018 20:58:04 UTC, Jacob Andersson wrote:

Yearly bump :) I'd still buy the game if you'd let me, Dean.

I played this fantastic game as a teenager and still think about it today. A teacher at my school ended up as the Emperor after body swapping with the heir, assassinating the incumbent and causing civil war. Happy days!

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On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 5:50:32 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:

On Saturday, 17 November 2018 20:58:04 UTC, Jacob Andersson wrote:

Yearly bump :) I'd still buy the game if you'd let me, Dean.

I played this fantastic game as a teenager and still think about it today. A teacher at my school ended up as the Emperor after body swapping with the heir, assassinating the incumbent and causing civil war. Happy days!

It sounds as if the world was hand adjudicated, but incredibly detailed. If the folks that remember it want to talk about what they remember, we might be able to put together something similar. I doubt I'm as talented as Dean, but I can bridge part of
the gap with good organization and a few tools.

Chris

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A new Dune movie out November 2020:

https://nerdist.com/article/dune-remake-everything-we-know/?fbclid=IwAR29mzozP2lwIL0dqSgarCjM2isWv_-ZPK0LlovMdv1ZIsPgYNVylxxkKKo

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On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 5:54:10 PM UTC-6, Chris Babcock wrote:

On Monday, February 4, 2019 at 5:50:32 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:

On Saturday, 17 November 2018 20:58:04 UTC, Jacob Andersson wrote:

Yearly bump :) I'd still buy the game if you'd let me, Dean.

I played this fantastic game as a teenager and still think about it today. A teacher at my school ended up as the Emperor after body swapping with the heir, assassinating the incumbent and causing civil war. Happy days!

It sounds as if the world was hand adjudicated, but incredibly detailed. If the folks that remember it want to talk about what they remember, we might be able to put together something similar. I doubt I'm as talented as Dean, but I can bridge part of

the gap with good organization and a few tools.

Chris

Looks like you might be better off developing your own physics/etc rule books and develop your own game. Doing some google searches recently more because I now work in an office where I can't really keep a 'normal game' up on the screen, so I'm looking
at playing highly detailed PBeM games, but every water hole seems dried up. I'm about ready to start my own. Are there any good adventure rpg style games with the high detail of war games (turn based, etc) with a rule book or ruleset base? IDK.

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Here's the infrastructure project I'm working on to deliver push notifications to replace email without resorting to SMS, or other mobile-based systems:

https://gitlab.com/swift2plunder/yaaps

I'm working towards having a Diplomacy service, "The Age of Gods," and 2 other automatically adjudicated games on this framework with 12 months. I'm also working with developers of 2 hand adjudicated systems to support their games.

The Age of Gods is on GitHub. The most reliable way to find out about beta tests if you're interested in the game would be to follow @[email protected] on Mastodon. The address is in the yaaps project README if Google munges it.

Search "cool Mastodon instances" or "join Mastodon" if you're not on that network yet.

Chris

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It's also important to recognize that "better off" isn't necessarily relevant here. I'm specifically educated in recognizing how aspects of a game design will contribute to individual enjoyment and community development. As a consequence, I recognize
that even "bad" games like TradeWars and LotGD have intrinsic value and would be worth persevering and playing even apart from nostalgia and their historical and cultural context.

By all accounts, "Here Lies the Power" was a fascinating experience. I'm interested in creations like these, generally, but I feel the impact that this game has had on players indicates that recovering the moderator's card file or even some player notes
would be an incredible find.

Chris

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Den söndag 4 februari 2018 kl. 14:16:40 UTC+1 skrev D Johnson:

I have all the back office material.

Yearly bump :)

I'm still interested in buying your index cards and other back office material Dean.

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onsdag 20 november 2019 kl. 10:44:32 UTC+1 skrev [email protected]:

Den söndag 4 februari 2018 kl. 14:16:40 UTC+1 skrev D Johnson:

I have all the back office material.

Yearly bump :)

I'm still interested in buying your index cards and other back office material Dean.

Another year passes with no WLTP-game. Let me know when you're ready to sell it, Dean.

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lördag 12 december 2020 kl. 22:27:36 UTC+1 skrev [email protected]:

onsdag 20 november 2019 kl. 10:44:32 UTC+1 skrev [email protected]:

Den söndag 4 februari 2018 kl. 14:16:40 UTC+1 skrev D Johnson:

I have all the back office material.

Yearly bump :)

I'm still interested in buying your index cards and other back office material Dean.

Another year passes with no WLTP-game. Let me know when you're ready to sell it, Dean.

I'm a Swede missing this game a lot... =/

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Yeah. Me too.

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Could someone please help me remember of some of the details of the game setting?

You started as a Minor House. IIRC becoming a Major House depended on your income?
A Great House was a house appointed fiefholder of a planet? What were the benfits of that position?

There were some political institutions. A senate? A House of Lords? What were the powers of those institutions?

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On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 11:07:27 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote:

Could someone please help me remember of some of the details of the game setting?

You started as a Minor House. IIRC becoming a Major House depended on your income?
A Great House was a house appointed fiefholder of a planet? What were the benfits of that position?

There were some political institutions. A senate? A House of Lords? What were the powers of those institutions?

Hi I played house orbitus that took over Widowa. (A planet in the top right hand corner of the map). I was a minor house. You gained solars from your holdings. When you came a great house, you got the revenue of the worlds + holdings + vote in the house

It was a fun game but I ran out of money when I went to university- I hope this helps

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Thanks. I actually found someone who'd saved the rulebook and many of the game newsletters. Was quite the nostalgia trip to read.

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