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Title: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on May 01, 2017, 05:51:08 am
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Hello, I am looking for all the best places to play and host play-by-post, aka forum games.

So far I know of:

Highly Active (9) ★ ♥♥♥
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Moderately Active (5) ★★ ♥♥♥
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Minimal Activity (8) ♥♥♥
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Disclaimer: Forums with few active threads, may be highly active within them.

★ = I recommend
♥ = You recommend


If there are multiple areas, which would a Bay 12 user find most familiar? At this time this list is just to get people's foot in the door.

If your post is informative I will link to it, too. And if you've tried one of these, tell us what you think!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Tack on May 01, 2017, 08:04:16 am
Actually P-ingTW on this. Could use a site which is a little more forgiving to my timetable.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: freeformschooler on May 01, 2017, 08:08:02 am
giant in the playground has (or used to have, last I checked) a huge play by post section

it was primarily tabletop rpgs due to the nature of the site
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Felissan on May 01, 2017, 08:42:45 am
Mafiascum has (in addition to the whole mafia section, obviously) a pretty active forum game section, where the overall trends are game-show-inspired trivia and - more relevant in your case, I suppose - strategy games, which can be further divided into large social games a la Survivor and smaller mind-game-heavy games. There's also a multiplayer text adventure that has been going pretty strong for about two months now, though it's really more of an exception.
Also, unlike here, successful short games tend to do pretty well in signups for reiterations.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: S34N1C on May 01, 2017, 08:06:18 pm
Man, I figured I would sign up for a few of these, so I started with GameFAQ, but honestly at first glance that forum isn't very user friendly. You can't even post at first.

Also, Pokemon Reborn (http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/forum/40-roleplaying/) has a roleplaying forum, but it's a very small community
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on May 01, 2017, 10:55:32 pm
^Very true.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on May 27, 2017, 07:59:11 pm
Going to add Coloholics Anonymous (http://coloholicsanonymous.com/index/viewforum.php?f=27). I don't know much about it, it was recommended to me by Eevee from Space Battles. But it seems comparable to Games N Things, they have fancy banners.(Yeah I totally don't know what to say about it)
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on June 04, 2017, 10:24:35 pm
Giant in the Playground seems down a lot.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Screech9791 on June 11, 2017, 06:17:16 pm
I've heard that Nuzlocke Forums (http://s7.zetaboards.com/Nuzlocke_Forum/index/) has some good forum games.
One of my favorite forum games there, Land Wars V, I got kicked out of over my discord getting hacked, but the rest of the forum game hosts there show some decency.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: crazyabe on June 11, 2017, 06:54:45 pm
PTW.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on June 11, 2017, 07:05:02 pm
While we're at it I'll share a secret cookie of mine. You'll have a hell of a time trying to host your own game but you might be able to join something they've got going easy enough. It's a really small community but that's not always bad.

"video game forums" http://vgf.com


Quote from: Another from SB Eevee
Codex Playground

I think the entire category known as 'Codex Playground' is fair game, BUT they do have a specific ad hoc section for quests, called CYOA Land.
NationStates.net. The quest/RTD/SG community is small, but they have done these kinds of games before. Perhaps a trend can be set on NS?
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on December 20, 2017, 01:05:11 am
Found this interesting, Kongregate (https://www.kongregate.com/forums/36-forum-games) divides them into "Forum Games" and "Continuous Games".
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: KittyTac on December 20, 2017, 01:22:19 am
Kong is composed 99% of 7 year olds and they're my personal pet peeve. Glory to Bay12!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Paxiecrunchle on December 20, 2017, 04:24:59 am
The species ALRE forums have some nice stuff in terms of forum games, if you like civilization and evolution based games. Main problem is they are underpopulated. Perhaps 90 people was the maximum number who were ever online at once.
 
http://www.speciesgame.com/forum/index.php
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: TalonisWolf on December 20, 2017, 10:29:41 am
PTW
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on February 26, 2018, 08:44:20 pm
I guess I made (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=148790.0) a list like this before.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Draxis on February 26, 2018, 10:43:38 pm
Sufficient Velocity actually has 3 forum game boards: Quests (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/forums/quests.29/), Roleplaying (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/forums/roleplaying.4/), and Grand Strategy Roleplaying.  (https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/forums/grand-strategy-roleplaying.49/) It's worth linking all of them because they're all a different type of game.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on February 26, 2018, 10:51:52 pm
Off the three, which would a Bay 12 user find most familiar? At this time this list is just to get people's foot in the door.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Draxis on February 26, 2018, 10:56:06 pm
Probably Roleplaying.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: KittyTac on February 26, 2018, 10:57:42 pm
I figure Grand Strategy Roleplaying is for games similar to SpaceStory or Legends of Ealos?
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Draxis on February 26, 2018, 11:17:09 pm
Quote from: KittyTac on February 26, 2018, 10:57:42 pm
I figure Grand Strategy Roleplaying is for games similar to SpaceStory or Legends of Ealos?
Kind of like SpaceStory - mostly it's a very specific style of game, basically the AlternateHistory.net forum game culture from before it was was expelled from that site, where people control an entire state and write chunks of RP for multiple characters belonging to it and events it carries out. Other types of game, even the ones that could also be described as "grand strategy roleplay," tend to end up in the Quest or RP boards.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: MeimieFan88 on March 27, 2018, 05:53:42 pm
PTW

Also, a forum my friend showed me a while ago: https://forum.novelupdates.com/forums/community-games.1022/
I've yet to do much over there, but it seems fairly active.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on March 27, 2018, 05:59:16 pm
Added. Thx
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on March 28, 2018, 09:31:13 pm
Here is my review/intel for GameFAQs:

Disclaimer: I was active here a few years ago. Some things have changed. Biggest being GameSpot merger.

I believe most, if not all forums and posts are mirrored on both sites. GameSpot is more content rich, so if you like to see people's avatars that's the place to go.

In general GameFAQs is very minimal. Which in some ways is good, especially if you're a new game host. There is no font color and only basic things like bold, italic, ect. Uses < > instead of [ ]. They did add image posting, which was after my time there.

Pretty much any active forum can and does have forum games. There is a forum for every published game virtually, and new and classic game boards stay active. For example, I hosted a lot of RPGs on Super Smash Bros Wii U Board (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u), months(years?) before the game came out.

The moderation really wants you to stay on topic, so games in these places need to be especially relevant. For example a Smash Bros Mafia was permitted, but a Smash Bros kingdom game was removed.

There are "safe havens", secret boards and private boards among them.

The most vanilla option is Roleplaying and Fanfiction (https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000115-roleplaying-and-fanfiction), though activity is minimal, but viable. I have never done anything here.

EVERYBODY PANIC (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/428-everybody-panic) is a place where everyone *Panics* and avoids THE PIT where IT lives. There are a lot of random improv battle threads, design a floor of a tower games, occasionally fend EP from IT threads, and they were open to a forum game or two I tried there. Love it.

Then the meat and potatoes(and unfortunately, private) is Games-N'-Things (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/839-games-n-things). Anything goes. Very active. Great people.
UPDATE: Found out you can go to the GnT link when logged in to send invite request!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Rockeater on March 29, 2018, 12:53:15 am
PTW,I will need to check a strategy game in one of them
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Solifuge on May 11, 2018, 02:42:45 pm
Eagle-Time is a community that hosts content, and networks many smaller communities that the MSPA forums spawned some years back. It's a home for original suggestions games and interactive fiction projects, comics, creative and artistic projects, game design, and plenty of goofy internet culture stuff. Their Mafia and forum game community is currently experiencing a bit of a revival, and a lot of big projects that used to be hosted on the MSPA forums found a new home there as well. All in all, pretty chill group of folks. I'd definitely recommend checking them out, if you like well-crafted interactive fiction stuff!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: KittyTac on September 05, 2018, 05:07:36 am
Realax (http://forums.realax.ru/) - Deserves an honorable mention, but it's in Russian (even though it was apparently made in Ukraine). You can use Google Translate or something. It's big enough to run a SpaceStory-sized game but small enough for it to easily gain traction.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on April 13, 2019, 03:44:22 pm
Just found this. (https://www.roleplayerguild.com/)*

It was the top pick on a new search engine (https://www.ecosia.org/) I've been trying.

*Addit: Interesting Survey (https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/177608-roseheart-is-eye/ooc)
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: FakerFangirl on April 13, 2019, 04:38:39 pm
Thanks for the list!
I mean... BAY12 #1!!!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on April 13, 2019, 04:48:56 pm
My pleasure!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: MeimieFan88 on April 24, 2019, 08:34:42 pm
You don't have to add this to the list but this (http://mysteryisland.freeforums.net/) is a new forum I recently created, dedicated to forum games. There is basically zero activity as of now but I thought I'd put this here just in case. Most of the current members are people from a different forum that went down months ago, we were all in the same forum game together until the site went down all of a sudden.

I am trying to host a game there now, but there is little activity/interest even from most of the current members, so I'm not particularly hopeful about it. But anyway, feel free to drop by and visit our empty forum!
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: RoseHeart on July 24, 2019, 12:28:16 pm
Are there any highly active forum game websites? Like Bay 12 is a website and a forum, that happens to have forum games, by contrast...
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Liberonscien on August 25, 2019, 08:21:47 pm
PTW.
Title: Re: Best Forum Game Sites?
Post by: Naturegirl1999 on September 12, 2019, 01:01:02 pm
PTW