Map Games

Map Games are collaborative althistory games in which a starting map is posted and players take turns making changes to the map and posting alternate history events.

General Guidelines
Each map game has its own particular set of rules. These are general guidelines for playing all games.

Naming Conventions: When creating a new map game, name the main page of the game "NAME (Map Game)" this will help keep the wiki more organized. Try to give it a name that represents the game, such as the era when it takes place, or the region accompanied by the start date.

Categories: When creating a new map game, make sure to create a new category for it. Either with a generic "Category:Map Game Maps #", or the name of your map game, ex. "Category:NAME Map Game Maps". Add the category to each new map you post.

Archiving: Every 30 turns, an archive page should be created to store the game's progress. This will ensure that when the game gets very long, people don't have to scroll down for an hour, or wait for 100 images to load.

Image Quality: Maintain the bit rate of the base image. Saving images in a lower quality format or at a lower bit rate results in graining and other issues that make it difficult for others to edit the maps. Save as a .PNG as the format tends to maintain the image quality the best. If an image is posted that does not maintain the file quality of the one posted before it, it can be deleted. Also, every image editor has a text tool. Using a paintbrush or pencil tool for labels is ugly and unnecessary.

Talk Page: Read the talk page. Don't just post willy nilly and wonder why your posts are being deleted and pollute people's personal talk pages. Read the game's talk page, as 99% of the time your questions are answered there.

Duplicate Games: When creating a game, look through the list of defunct games, if one matches what you were planning and didn't advance very far, try reviving that first.

Defunct Games: If a game goes defunct (Hasn't been edited in seven days), hasn't advanced past 15 turns, and can't be successfully revived, place a " " template on the page.

List of Current Map Games

 * Principia Moderni III - Popular sequel to the first two Principia Moderni map games. Begins in 1400, near the approximate beginning of the modern era.
 * Second Age of Imperialism - A fun, new and exciting map game that begins at the Napoleonic Era, the start of a Second Era of Imperialism that would fuel later nationalism and many other great events! We have over one hundred slots, so sign up and shape the world's destiny.
 * Romae Delenda Est (Map Game) A restart of a classic map game that begins in 215 BC with the defeat of Rome in the Second Punic War. Almost 100 nations are open and the map is of the whole world. Mods and Players needed and it is never too late to join!
 * The 1848 Game (Map Game) - Many spots still open.
 * Congress of Vienna - Reinstalled (Map Game)  over 20 spots available, need mods and mapmakers - and players, of course,  starts on Wednesday.
 * Europe 1250 (Map Game) - Lots Of Slots Available. Needs Mods, Mapmakers and Players. Starts when it has at least eight players. Begins in 1250

Finished Games
Games end once they reach the present year or an earlier predetermined ending. These games have reached that point:
 * Map Game - The first Map Game. It ended because of year limits (up to 1 June 2010 on this wiki). It is also notable for at one point being more active than Talk:1983: Doomsday and having one of its maps used by Wikia to advertise this wiki. Founded by Baconton.
 * Rebirth of the World Map Game - Finally got to 2010.
 * Atlantic Islands (Map Game) - The first map game to be used specifically for a timeline, all of the islands were colonized.
 * Axis vs Allies Revised - Reached an agreed endpoint between the last two players.
 * No Nukes (Map Game) - Reached the present year (2012)
 * Hot Cold War (Map Game) - Game about World War 3 but ended in ASB.
 * Principia Moderni (Map Game) - Worldwide map game of military, economy, and exploration. Currently the longest-running map game record-holder.
 * Night of the Living Alternate History - Original map game created by Mscoree. On October 1, 1968 George A. Romero released the film, Night of the Living Dead. Today it is viewed as the beginning of Zombies on the big screen, but what if that’s not all it inspired? Noted as being one of the most popular map games ever created.

Defunct Games
For the most part, games are marked defunct due to inactivity, if you feel like continuing a defunct map game feel free as long as it is not one of the few that have finished. This list is incomplete.
 * Land of Opportunity (Map Game) - Died due to inactivity.
 * Europe 1100 (Map Game) - inactivity.
 * Europe 1430 - Second longest running map game, defunct due to inactivity.
 * States of America Map Game - Inactivity.
 * Massive Impact (Map Game) - Died, inactivity.
 * World War I Map Game - Map game created by Fedelede.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game - A map game based on colonization created by Michael Douglas. Dead due to inactivity.
 * The New & Improved map game - Devolved into a quagmire of implausibility and no one was posting maps anymore, so it was abandoned.
 * The New Map Game - Abandoned, since some thought it was boring.
 * Human Evolution (Map Game) - collapsed into non-existence (this is what should have happened)
 * Colonisation Map Game - Dead after many of the editors grew tired of the implausibility and problems with the game's rules.
 * Human Evolution 2.0 (Map Game): Dead, not edited
 * The Second Crusade? Never heard of it! (Map Game)
 * Axis vs Allies (Map Game) - A Map Game on WW-II, starts in 1933. Died due to lack of interest.
 * Scramble for Africa (Map Game) - The Colonization of Africa, no edits for almost a month.
 * US Civil War Map Game - The south wins civil war, no edits for the whole summer.
 * States of America 2 - Awesome game of the end of the USA during the Great Depression. two months inactive.
 * Cold War! (Map Game) - inactive.
 * Five Country War, No Nukes (Map Game) - Map game in Europe, between five mainland Europe countries, starts in 1648.
 * Peaceful Democracy (Map Game) - Map game on an unknown landmass.
 * Radioactive Tide (Map Game) - A world where society advanced much faster, but had a nuclear war, hasn't been touched since January 5, 2012.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game 2 - Second Imperial Europe game created by PitaKang. Revived, but went super implausible and most people left, except one person who just copy-pasted the same thing then left.
 * Fractured America (Map Game) - The CSA wins the civil war. Everyone quit because of the biased moderation.
 * The Greater Americas (Map Game) - Inactivity.
 * Allies vs Entente A WW-I of Axis vs Allies, Died due to inactivity.
 * Vive la Revolution! - Died of Massive Expansion.
 * Subterranean Europe - Map Game that got its name from 11th Touhou Game, Subterranean Animism. This map game was about the Black Death destroying 73% of Europe and the recovery. The creator decided to quit the map game as it got boring.
 * Battle for Earth (Map Game) - Closed.
 * Fractured America Revised and Reloaded (Map Game): Game was declared dead by its owner.
 * Axis vs Allies: Reloaded (Map Game) - Gradually died off.
 * Triple Entente vs. Central Powers - Gradually died off.
 * Vive La Revolution Reloaded! - Gradually died off.
 * New Beginning (Map Game) - Gradually died off.
 * Lobositz's Lamentable Loss (Map Game) - Died.
 * Battle for Earth: The Forge (Map Game) - Died New Year..
 * Medieval World (Map Game) - Died.
 * Industrial Revolution (Map Game)- Died.
 * South_American_Rising_(Map_Game) Brazil becomes a world power, so buckle up. Super powers and the world war will never be what you expect! It's never too late to join.
 * Novum Aetatum (Map Game) Starts at the end of the 13th century (the year 1300). We need more players (we have 72 spots open, and a whole bunch of French successor states are about to become playable), as the game has sort of slowed down.
 * Axis vs Allies: Reborn (Map Game)
 * Sticks, Stones, and Guns (Map Game) - Fresh new map game! Most nations are open! Takes place in 1927.
 * Warsaw Pact (Map Game) - Game set in 1950. Many nations are out. (We need more players).
 * States of America: Northern Defeat (Map Game) - Many nations open, including the good ones! Mods and players needed. 
 * Colonial World (Map Game)
 * Battle for Earth Strikes Back! (Map Game) - Next game of the popular Battle for Earth series.
 * Principia Moderni II (Map Game) - Popular sequel to the Principia Moderni map game.
 * Medieval World: Age of Kings - Sequel to the first Medieval World map game. Begins in 1000, near the approximate beginning of the medieval era.
 * Look Out, Sir! Revised - Sequel to the first Look Out, Sir map game. Unlike the previous one, which began on the eve of World War II, this one begins right before World War I.
 * Atomic Winter (Map Game) - Died due to inactivity
 * Great Advance Restarted (Map Game) - Never Started
 * Romae Delenda Est (Map Game)- Dead