Games.md

SkotOS Games Past and Present

This is a large, but not fully comprehensive, list of SkotOS-based and Skotos-Tech-related games.

Some of them have left fragments of code scattered about, while others have not.

Current SkotOS Games

• Castle Marrach - CM is, and basically always has been, the largest SkotOS-based game
• Allegory of Empires - a rebuild of Ironclaw Online due to loss of the IP license
• Multiverse; Revelations

The Gables is more of a stage than a game, but it's SkotOS-based and live.

Skotos Tech, but not SkotOS Codebase, Games

• The Eternal City - still operating!

Inoperative Games

• Lovecraft Country, which included "Arkham By Night" and a smaller stage called The Oasis; this clearly had a usable beta release and a lot of usable code; it went through multiple dev teams and was, for awhile, the #2 largest SkotOS game.
• Grendel's Revenge - I don't think this one was SkotOS-based, though it was published by Skotos Tech
• Ironclaw Online, - this was based on the Ironclaw anthropomorphic RPG
• The Lazarus Project
• Galactic Emperor: Succession - is this the same game as Hegemony? Or a smaller stage of it?

I believe everything in this section saw a release and later stopped operation.

You can find some history of many things here in this article by Shannon Appelcline.

There were also SkotOS-affiliated games that didn't seem to be based on the SkotOS engine:

two MMORPGs--both fully graphical RPGs, unlike our own offerings. They were Underlight and Meridian 59: Sacred Haven. Since then we've added another four: Gang of Four (March 22), Space Federation (June 3), Queen's Necklace (June 6), and Droidarena (August 8). We've actually got an eleventh game too, Fist of Dragonstones, which we've been offering as a beta-test since December, and haven't completed the integrations solely due to time-constraints. I expect to have it fully available next week.

Fragments, Unreleased, Unknown

There have been various small stages that were never meant to be full-sized games.

Other fragmentary, unfinished or not-well-documented parts include:

• The Skoot On Inn was a small test stage that seems to have existed in several revisions, and seems also to have been called The Tavern and possibly The Hearth
• Headquarters isn't a separate game, but a staff-only area that exists inside several games
• The Mansion, a.k.a. The Gables has existed in several revisions, including the currently-live one
• Regency - an unfinished(?) game involving Regency castles which produced a lot of in-game objects; Regency was a rebuild of Ironclaw Online without the Ironclaw license
• Orphan Crown - this exists in in-game fragments (mentioned here)
• Pendragon Online - this exists in in-game fragments (mentioned here)
• The Devil's Cay - Laurel Stuart wrote a series of articles about building it
• Horizon Station - Sam Witt wrote articles about working on it
• Qigung - Jeff Crook wrote about working on it
• Arcana - Gareth Michael Skarka was attempting to build a horror game and wrote about it
• Glory of the Nile - was to be a SkotOS Theatre; (articles)
• S7 - not a game but a library from the "Skotos Seven" series of game projects
• The Bane - "In The Bane you might be a Sun Worshipper with uncertain loyalties..." - The Bane was one of the earliest SkotOS game attempts and still exists in in-game fragments, often combat-related
• The Welcome Room / The Link Zone - this was an out-of-character chat area, still to be found in some in-game fragments