Multiplayer loving event

[bartbes]

I want to organize a nice multiplayer gaming event for us sometime soon (currently thinking of the week of the 28th).

This has been done:

• Find potential hosts

This has yet to be done:

• Choose a game
• Set a date and time
• Get players
• Find more/backup hosts

So.. who can help me move things from list 2 to list 1?

[kikito]

Are there any conditions on the games to be chosen?

Most my multiplayer life has happened on 1 vs 1 games lately - Street Fighter IV (PC, on steam) + Starcraft II.

The last "really multiplayer" game I played is Team Fortress.

All those games "come" with a server - steam or battlenet.

I can also play a decent Dwarf Fortress, provided that I don't have to mess with the new military "interface" (that word doesn't describe the experience, but it'll have to do). So I can do at least the initial part of a dwarf fortress cooperative history. I say this because this game is free, it doesn't require any central servers or coordinating multiple people.

[bartbes]

We could do some competition, of course, but the best would probably be a mmo, or at least something with decently-sized teams. Of course nobody said we're restricted to one game and/or one timeslot.

[Taehl]

This has yet to be done:

• Choose a game

Should probably choose something that's small and easy to get, preferably with wide appeal. Things that come to my mind:

- Minecraft (wildly popular, cheap (or free, assuming you just want to play Creative mode), tiny download)
- Soldat (free, small download, multiplayer-based, easy to get into)
- Freespace 2 (abandonware, amazingly good, has full coop support)
- Sven Coop mod for Half-Life 1 (awesome coop, great fun, HL1 is very cheap)
- TrackMania Nations Forever (free, competitive multiplayer, surprisingly fun)

[toaster468]

I own a 24/7 vanilla minecraft server. IP: 69.160.241.229 you guys could organize something, there are 20 slots so there should be enough room for some LOVErs.

[nevon]

- Minecraft (wildly popular, cheap (or free, assuming you just want to play Creative mode), tiny download)

This seems like a good choice, seeing as how it's also available for all three major platforms.

[bartbes]

Quick, somebody write an mmo in love!

[vrld]

Quick, somebody write an mmo in love!

Work in progress...

[Victor Bjelkholm]

Savage is a fun game for many players

http://www.s2games.com/savage/downloads.php

Only for Linux and Windows. Fu mac-users

[slime]

Speaking as a Mac user, Savage 1 and 2 are both awesome. S2Mercenary would approve. :p