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The Weapon (game)
''The Weapon'' is a closed-ended, science fiction, play-by-mail (PBM) game. History and development Dan Ealy designed the game to run on the Apple II. Ealy 1984. p. 41. Memory limitations restricted game design. Ealy aimed for game complexity between ''Starweb'' and ''Empyrean Challenge''. The game had medium complexity. Mark Brown programmed the game for ten months prior to playtest beginning in September 1982, taking more than six times longer than initially estimated. Playtesting began in August 1983 with 15 players from Indiana, and Ealy offered the game for play in May 1984. The game was initially published by 4Sight. McLain 1984. p. 3. By 1988 it was published by Fantastic Simulations. Sullivan 1988. p. 30. Gameplay ''The Weapon'' was a science fiction PBM game of space conquest. It was closed-ended and computer moderated. The game allowed 15 players. Players customized their homeworlds using variables such as economics and military. Crooks 1984. p. 30. Players coul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
