Slitherine

One really useful at-a-glance piece of information for me in the game summmaries would be, are you able to play online against other users? I don't like playing against a computer so this for me is a big decider in whether to purchase the game.

The game summaries don't make it clear, however. It is sometimes mentioned in the blurb or "special features" listings but that does not tell me for sure, if the information is not there, whether you can play online or not.

There should be a Category at the top, common to all games "Multi-Player Online?: Yes/No" sort of thing.

We put this in the system specs. E.g. :
http://www.slitherine.com/games/bbc_ba_ipad

See PBEM++ for a game that uses our PBEM server. Is that what you wanted or you meant something else?

What is a PBEM server??

There are two types, one is the classical PBEM and the other is PBEM++

1) In the classical PBEM basically you'll send a mail to your opponent with your saved turn. And your opponent will do the same when he finish his turn.

2) PBEM++ is a server based automatic Play By E-Mail system.

So your multiplayer turn games are saved and send through a central server. You can issue or accept MP challenges and in the game your turns are automatically saved and send through the server and your online opponent gets an automatic ingame message, together with a traditional email, it is his turn to play.

All this is done for you by the server, so you don’t have to save the game, send an email, download your opponent’s save game and install it by hand, as is normal with traditional PBEM games, the server and game do it for you.

Turn based strategy games are ideal being played with this new PBEM++ system. On top we are adding more features to it, by all measures the PBEM++ matchmaking service introduced with Field of Glory is a huge success with already more than one million game-turns being played through it.

So Field of Glory is an example of PBEM++?

Eques wrote:So Field of Glory is an example of PBEM++?

Yes.