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Droidippy - returning soon 4.52
Temporary server outage. Please seehttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/droidippy/rBRLRZfHcNk/AqYMJKibCQAJfor details.IF YOU DON'T APPRECIATE THE DIPLOMACY BOARD GAME YOU PROBABLYWON'T APPRECIATE THIS GAME!Droidippy is a Diplomacy like game running on devices compatiblewith Android 2.2 and having at least one Google account.If you have never played Diplomacy it could perhaps be explainedas being a mix of Risk, Poker, Chess and Rock-Paper-Scissors. Itwas supposedly the favorite game of John Kennedy and HenryKissinger.If you have any problems, questions, comments, praise orcomplaints don't hesitate to send an email [email protected]!If you have ideas for improvements, or other suggestions, youcan also post them on thehttp://www.oort.se/2011/04/droidippy-wishlist.html.For discussion with other players, go tohttps://groups.google.com/group/droidippy or join#[email protected]:* Several simultaneous games with anonymous players or your friendsfrom all over the world.* Create your own games, configure them to your liking and invitepeople to join the stabbing!* Keeps track of your deadline reliability, and sets you up withplayers of similar reliability.* Vector based map with zooming, panning and click to enterorders.* Instant messaging, one on one and in a conference channel, ineach game.* Game global help and talk chat channel.* Configurable notifications when messages are sent, phasesresolved and games end.* Browse history of games to check the performance of friend andfoe alike.* Clearly stated orders and results in text, if the point and clickinterface confuses.* A web interface for your friends unlucky enough not to own anAndroid device, or for those times when you prefer a full sizekeyboard: http://droidippy.oort.seNote:* If you find that nobody commits in time or knows the rules makesure that you still commit your orders reliably, because the nexttime you join a game you will be paired with others having the samelevel of reliability. And the games get a lot more interesting whenyou play against reliable players!* Droidippy contains no explanations about the rules of the game.See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Diplomacy/Rules for a fulldescription of the rules.* Joining a game is serious business. A player that abandons a gamewill ruin the game for his or her fellow players. Please only joina game if you are actually interested in following it through tothe end.In response to negative comments: Please make it possible for meto reach you and get enough info about your issues to enable me tofix them, otherwise the game will keep being "rubbish" and "doesn'twork". For example, send an email or post on the web page? If youcare enough to write it down in a comment, don't you care enough tolet me fix your issue? I would like to think that you post thecomments for other reasons than that you like writing badreviews.
