Atlantis PbeM

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Atlantis is a free open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game for any number of players. It is played via email. The game world is populated by many races and monsters. Players may attempt to carve out huge empires, become master magicians, intrepid explorers, rich traders or any other career that comes to mind and interact with other players in trade, war and alliances. There is no declared winner of the game, players set their own objectives, and one can join at any time.

Russell Wallace developed the initial version and ran the first game, Atlantis 1.0 in 1993. Geoff Dunbar continued the legacy, first with the extensive playtest of Atlantis 2.0, and then the commercial game Atlantis 3.0. Atlantis 4.0 was created by Geoff Dunbar. AtlantisDev was formed sometime after that and Joseph Traub became the maintainer of the code. Atlantis 4.0 was later expanded o­n by various contributors from the AtlantisDev group. The new maintainer of the code is Azthar Septragen. The current version is 4.0.10k.

[edit] Software

• The Atlantis Advisor a graphical user interface (GUI) for the game (shareware)
• The Atlantis Crystal Ball another free GUI
• Atlantis Little Helper open source GUI client
• AtlaClient free GUI client

[edit] Running Games

• Arno's Atlantis Game
• The Illias-Atlantis Game
• Lost Land Atlantis

[edit] External links

• The Atlantis Project contains the history of Atlantis 1-3.
• Atlantis 4 und 5 released under the GPL.
• German Atlantis. Completely translated version from 1995
• PbM/PbeM Games Homepage
• atlantisdev Developer mailing list