Map Games

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

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 whenit 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 years (in-game), 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 bitrate of the base image. Saving images in a lower quality format or at a lower bitrate 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 an 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 7 days), hasn't advanced past 10 turns, and can't be successfully revived, place a " " template on the page.

List of Current Map Games

 * Principia Moderni (Map Game)- A map game beginning worldwide in 1420, based on exploration. Still accepting players..
 * Axis vs Allies (Map Game)- A Map Game on WWII, starts in 1933, the most popular game currently.
 * Scramble for Africa (Map Game) - started, going defunct

Games being made

 * US Civil War Map Game The south wins civil war, needs players and moderators.
 * Cold War (Map Game)- A map game based on the Cold War
 * Polycentric world- being made.Needs players.
 * Romans (Map Game)- Being made. Needs players to begin. Still working on the rules
 * Starting over (Map Game)Being made. Needs Moderators and map.

Finished Games
Games end once they reach the present year. 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.

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 isn't one of the few that have finished.
 * WWIII (Map Game)- Defunct. Nuked the crap out of the planet.
 * Europe 1100 (Map Game)- inactivity
 * Second Europe 1430 (Map Game)- inactivity
 * Europe 1430 - 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- The newest map game, created by Fedelede.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game- A map game based on colonization created by Michael Douglas. Dead due to inactivity.
 * Imperial Europe Map Game 2- Second Imperial Europe game created by PitaKang. Dead due to inactivity.
 * The New & Improved map game - Devolved into a quagmire of implausibilty 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 nonexistence(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)
 * Map Game 500 A.D.

Participants

 * Oerwinde - Moderator of all map games
 * Paaaad
 * ProfessorMcG
 * Baconton - creator of the original Map Game
 * Vegas adict
 * Calthrina950 - Banned
 * Destroyanator
 * Fedelede
 * Eastward Expansion-creator of several maps on New Map Game
 * BoredMatt
 * Mumby
 * Azecreth-rarely active player
 * Smallpox
 * DaBigUn-enthusiastic player (most of the time) and reader
 * Ownerzmcown
 * Batmanary
 * Michael Douglas - Creator of Imperial Europe Map Game (the original) and Europe 1100.
 * CrimsonAssassin 17:13, December 6, 2010 (UTC)- Creator of the Massive Impact Game and enthusiastic participant
 * PitaKang- On every day
 * Thant
 * Chicagoan
 * Roguejedi - on almost every day
 * Collie Kaltenbrunner