I have been working for the past couple weeks on some nifty third-party things for Weewar. To collect them together into one spot, I have started up Weewar Labs.

First I developed the Weewar Rankings page which polls the live Weewar server regularly and collects historical data for active players, including rating and wins. It then ranks players using a basic classification system based roughly on those used in some chess associations. You can also click on players in the listing to see graphs of the data over time.

Recently, I announced the Weewar Players Association. Quoted from the home page:

What is the WWPA?

The Weewar Players Association is a community of like-minded Weewar players.

What is the purpose of the WWPA?

The purpose of the WWPA is to serve as a useful social resource for Weewar players. It was created in response to the need of the Weewar player base to regulate itself in terms of fair play and good sportsmanship.

What can the WWPA do for me?

The WWPA maintains and publicizes a list of players who adhere to some modest guidelines on fair and honourable play. You can use this list to help you find opponents who won’t spoil your fun.

What does it cost?

Just like Weewar, WWPA membership is absolutely free. Registration is quick and easy, and you don’t even need to provide an e-mail address. Join now!

My next endeavour will be Weewar notification via instant messenger. Stay tuned!

I’ve been mentioned on the Weewar blog for making some basic Weewar tutorials. These are nifty little screencasts which show you how to do the basic operations during game play. Thanks for posting about this, Alex!

Wordbattle is an engaging multiplayer word game. The concept is simple: the letters of a word are jumbled up, and whoever figures out the word first wins.

Although this elementary form of the game can be entertaining, game play really heats up when you face off against other people in “word battle”. Battle consists of a continuous series of scrambled words which come rapidly one after another as each word is solved. Solving words gets you battle points and gold. As you accumulate battle points, you gain levels, and your character becomes more powerful. Gold can be spent to purchase armour and weaponry to further improve your character. A special website shows statistics on all the players as well as a game log and item listing.

test your word fu Try the game now in the web-based chat client. After it loads up, simply type !word to get a feel for the game. If other players are around, you can start a !wordbattle for head-to-head action.

Full details on how to play and other cool features can be found in the game documentation.

I’ll see you on the battleground!

So Jaykul throws this link at me in IRC (which he is often wont to do). weewar.com. So I go check it out… and it’s pretty fun.

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