Game Sites

Turn based play.  Large collection of modern abstract games.  Free.  Aaron Dalton's site.  Clear Path is still marked experimental there.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Bamboo
• Blast Radius
• Bounce
• Byte
• Cephalopod
• Churn
• Clear Path (experimental)
• Clearcut
• Clusterfuss
• Conect
• Crossway
• Diffusion
• Dipole
• Flume (square grid)
• Halfcut
• Hexagonal Y
• Invector
• King and Courtesan
• Minefield
• Monkey Queen
• Nakatta
• Narrows
• Necklace
• Oust (hex grid)
• Oust (square grid)
• Scribe
• Take
• Tanbo
• Unane
• Zola

BOARD GAME MEGASITE !!  TONS OF PLAYERS !!  Real time and turn based play.  The games marked alpha are open to BGA reviewers only, until they advance to beta.

MSG games

• 420
• Black Narrows
• Blast Radius
• Cephalopod
• Churn
• Coins
• Diablo
• Dodo
• Edgecut
• Flume (square grid)
• Fractal
• Gopher
• Group
• Hadron
• Herd
• Icebreaker
• Impasse
• Invector
• Jokerball
• Minefield
• Mod Ten
• Oust (hex grid)
• Redstone
• Rive
• Room and Pillar
• Run Buster
• Silo
• Strategic Reserve
• Unane
• Zola
• Clear Path (alpha)
• Colorfield (alpha)
• Narrows (alpha)
• Necklace (alpha)
• Tanbo (alpha)
• Unitile (alpha)

Download the app.  Stephen Tavener's custom programmed apps.  High quality AI.

MSG games

• Blast Radius
• Cephalopod
• Churn
• Dodo
• Icebreaker
• Oust
• Zola

Download the app.  Scripts written by Michael Amundsen, Eric Piette, and Alek Erickson.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Bamboo
• Bounce
• Cage
• Crossway
• Dodo
• Flume (square grid)
• Fractal
• Gopher
• Gyre
• Icebreaker
• Jostle
• King and Courtesan
• Monkey Queen
• Oust (hex grid)
• Pathway
• Redstone
• Zola

Live play.  Huge variety of modern abstract games.  Programmer and proprietor Arty Sandler created an outstanding game site.  Chat translation.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Cephalopod
• Crossway
• Dipole
• Flume (square grid)
• Mad Bishops
• Monkey Queen
• Oust (hex grid)
• Oust (square grid)
• Rush
• Tanbo

Christian Freeling's game site.  Christian is known for such modern classics as Havannah, Dameo, Grand Chess, Emergo, and Symple.

MSG games

• Oust (hex grid)
• Oust (square grid)
• Zola

Awesome game site.  Huge membership.  Fast screen updates.  Se habla Español, pero there's an English translation.  Juan, the proprietor, is a nice guy, phenomenal programmer, and intelligent player.

Cephalopod is on Ludoteka ClasiKa, the classic version of the site.

MSG games

• Cephalopod

Great concept.  Take your time and play by email.  Proprietor and programmer Scott Nesin is a master of the game interface.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Begird
• Byte
• Cage
• Cephalopod
• Copolymer
• Crossway
• Diffusion
• Dipole
• Impasse
• Oust (square grid)
• Palisade
• Quadrature
• Rive
• Rush
• Scribe
• Tanbo
• X

Excellent players.  Dutch site Jijbent has a lot of highly talented players.

You have to learn two or three Dutch words to get a game going at Jijbent, but almost all of the members speak perfect English so you can chat while you play.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Dipole

Huge membership.  You shouldn't have any trouble finding an opponent.

MSG games

• Tanbo

Skilled players.  Yucata is a full featured German game site with a selectable English interface.  It enjoys a large membership that harbors a lot of talent.

Programmer and artist extraordinaire Sven Hilscher did an outstanding job of programming Atoll.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Zola

American gaming hot spot.  YourTurnMyTurn, founded by Bram Schoonhoven of Jij Bent fame, is a hub for talented American abstract game players.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Dipole

Email based.  ASCII interface.  Richard Rognlie's email based GamerzNet was the first modern abstract game site and it's still going strong.

MSG games

• Cephalopod
• Copolymer
• Crossway
• Diffusion
• Dipole
• Loophole (2D)
• Oust (square grid)
• Palisade
• Quadrature
• Scribe
• Tanbo

Outstanding German game site.  Intelligent membership.

MSG games

• Atoll
• Dipole

Snappy real time interface.  Very life-like experience.

MSG games

• Dipole

Iron fisted moderation.  "Dear Leader" management.  The most prominent feature of GoldToken is its maniacal control over its discussion forums.  If you type "omg", for example, the omg turns red and the Send button grays out.  Conversations that develop an off color tenor are instantly expunged and replaced with stern warnings of "further action".  Gold Token once attempted an "anything goes" forum.  No topic was to be off limits.  The new forum was online for about ten minutes, as I recall, before being permanently dismantled.  Discussion of the short lived forum was then curtailed.  OMG!

GoldToken enjoys a large, very sociable membership that doesn't seem to mind the Orwellian atmosphere.  Exchange cake recipes, discuss your critical ailments, and receive electronic sympathy cards.  GoldToken has a large number of abstract games, a great many of which are minor variants of Checkers.

GoldToken has a remarkable scarcity of good players, considering its large membership.  It has now formed affiliations with professional game associations in an effort to turn around its sappy image, but it's got a long road ahead of it.  The master plan is to create a hub for world class players who are well mannered and compliant - all five of them.

MSG games

• Dipole

Play against the computer in your browser.  Open source collection of abstract games and puzzles.  Redstone is in its Go family.

MSG games

• Redstone