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posted by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the stuff-we-can-add-... dept.

So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?

I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:42AM

    by el_oscuro (1711) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:42AM (#221035)

    I have been wanting a chess game like that for awhile. At freechess.org, every game is like 1 minute. Chess with friends is like what I want but comes with a bunch of facebook crap. I'm going to try to install it on my site but don't know if it will work on my crappy host provider.

    It would be totally awesome if SN had it on their site!

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  • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:31AM

    by CoolHand (438) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:31AM (#221210) Journal
    OCC [sourceforge.net] is actually what I used to run.. It was perfect for our small elementary club. I'm not sure if it would scale up to soylent size though, which is why I mentioned the phpchess..
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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:56PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:56PM (#221279) Homepage Journal

    Didn't there use to be an internet chess server somewhere maybe a decade or two ago? It would match up people who wanted to play. Where is it now?