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A turn-based game, also known as turn-based strategy, is a game where the game flow is partitioned into well-defined and visible parts, called turns or rounds. For example, when the game flow unit is time, turns represent units of time, like years, months, weeks, or days. A player of a turn-based game is allowed a period of analysis before committing to a game action, ensuring a separation between the game flow and the thinking process, which in turn leads presumably to better solutions. Once every player has taken his turn, that round of play is over, and any special shared processing, is done. This is followed by the next round of play. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (924x665, 451 KB) Summary The Battle for Wesnoth http://www. ...
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Battle for Wesnoth is a cross platform, turn based strategy computer game programmed in C++. The game is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. It runs on BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows. ...
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Types
TBS games come in two flavors, depending on whether inside a turn players play simultaneously or take their (mini-)turns. The former games fall into the simultaneously-executed TBS games (also called phase-based or "WeGo"), with Diplomacy being a notable example. The latter games fall into player-alternated TBS games (also called "IGOUGO"), and are subsequently subdivided into (A) ranked, (B) round-robin start, (C) random and (D) initiative-based -- the difference being the order under which players start within a turn: (A) the first player being the same every time, (B) the first player selection policy is round-robin, (C) the first player is randomly selected, and (D) the first player is selected based on an initiative score. Diplomacy game board, showing regions and boundaries. ...
An additional sub-category under phase-based games is the category of clock-based games. Clock-based games differ from phase-based games, in that players are allowed a maximum of only one action per turn, as opposed to possibly several (using an Action or Movement Point pool, for instance). Most roguelike games fall under this category. A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ...
Most board games are turn-based, otherwise gameplay would most likely get out of hand. Many single-player strategic video games are also turn-based. However, when a particular player gains access to the game during his/her turn it is not uncommon to value the time taken by the player to make the move to improve the fairness of the game. In chess, a pair of stop clocks may be used to track the time taken by players to make their moves. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ...
Strategy games are typically board games, video or computer games with the players decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome. ...
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ...
Sometimes turn-based Additionally, many other games that are not generally turn-based retain the notion of turns during specific sequences. Notably, the role-playing game Fallout is turn-based during the combat phase, and real-time throughout the remainder of the game. Fallout is a computer role-playing game produced by Tim Cain and published by Interplay in 1997. ...
Acting outside your turn Some games (notably X-COM) allow you to act outside your turn by designating different automatic re-actions that are executed when certain conditions apply in the opponent's turn, adding an element of strategic guess-work. X-COM is a series of computer games, started by MicroProse in 1994. ...
Turn-based gaming Turn-based gaming refers to browser-based game sites that allow for game-play to extend beyond a single session, over long periods of time—often taking months for complex games like Go or Chess to finish. Browser games are electronic games that are played online via the Internet. ...
Go, also known as Wéiqà in Mandarin Chinese (Traditional Chinese: åœæ£‹; Simplified Chinese: 围棋), is a strategic, deterministic Chinese board game played by alternately placing stones on a grid. ...
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ...
Turn-based "tactics" - Main article Turn-based tactics
This sub-genre is principally used only in RPG-derived games as an alternative to the traditional turn-based system. The system has been tailored to incorporate RPG characteristics. The genre has its origins in tabletop role-playing games, where each player has time to decide his or her character's action. Turn-based tactics games generally feature no more than a dozen characters on either side of the battle (usually less). The term "tactics" had not showed up until Final Fantasy Tactics was released, where it popularized the genre in the U.S., although games such as Shining Force have utilized the genre years beforehand. To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it easier to understand, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Tabletop role-playing games, also called pen and paper role-playing games, are a form of interactive and collaborative storytelling. ...
Final Fantasy Tactics (often abbreviated as FFT) is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Squaresoft for the Sony PlayStation. ...
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Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention, more commonly referred to as Shining Force, is a 1992 turn-based strategy role playing video game for the Sega Genesis console. ...
Play-by-mail games Play-by-email TBS games allow the orders to be passed in a very loose synchronization mechanism: email. In a way, it's the modern successor of the old play-by-mail style used in Europe in the mid-17th century: two chess players would be able to play together from miles away, if they could transmit their moves through some fast transport service, which happened to be (horse-powered) mail (postallion). PbeM examples: Atlantis PbeM or Dominions II. Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ...
Atlantis is a free open-ended multi-player computer moderated Turn-based strategic fantasy game for any number of players. ...
Type of game Dominions II is a turn-based, computer strategy game. ...
Examples
Example board games Risk is a commercial turn-based strategy board game produced by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. ...
Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...
a pachisi board Pachisi is a board game thought to originate in India; it is described as the national game of India. ...
Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15×15 game board. ...
Sorry!, the slide pursuit game is a board game based on pachisi, sold by Parker Brothers. ...
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ...
Go, also known as Wéiqà in Mandarin Chinese (Traditional Chinese: åœæ£‹; Simplified Chinese: 围棋), is a strategic, deterministic Chinese board game played by alternately placing stones on a grid. ...
Reversi and Othello are names for a strategic boardgame which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides. ...
Diplomacy game board, showing regions and boundaries. ...
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Example computer games
Mainstream developers After a period of converting board and historic TBS games to computer games, the big companies have started to come up with new ideas for computer TBS games.
Probably the best known turn-based game is Sid Meier's Civilization, which evolved into a long series of successor games and derivatives. Other notable examples include: Sid Meier publicity photo Sid Meier (born 1954, in Detroit, USA) is a renowned programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer games of all time. ...
Civilization, or Sid Meiers Civilization (which is the games official name) is a computer game created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991. ...
For a more comprehensive list of turn-based computer games, see: Colonization is a computer game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier released by Microprose in 1994. ...
Heroes of Might and Magic II Heroes of Might and Magic (sometimes called simply Heroes or HoMM) is a series of turn-based computer games by New World Computing, a division of The 3DO Company. ...
Jagged Alliance is a series of turn-based strategy computer games. ...
Magic: The Gathering (colloq. ...
X-COM is a series of computer games, started by MicroProse in 1994. ...
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Indie game developers An interesting market trend is the rise of Indie TBS games (games produced by small groups, independent or slightly affiliated with the computer games industry), which normally extend or refine one or another already existing TBS strategy games.
Three good examples of indie-developed games are Age of Castles, Battles of Norghan and Leaderz.
Open-source games Open-source has also seen the rise of games such as The Battle for Wesnoth. Directories like Freshmeat provide large lists of open-source, turn-based strategy projects.
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