Xpace - The ABANDONWARE Windows PBEM (Play-By-EMail) large-scale, multi-player space exploration & strategy game created by Xoftware Innovations (now defunct)
See website for contact & game info:
http://xpace.awardspace.com/index.html
(or http://www.webhosting4free.org/xpace/)
Those seeking a campaign to join or to announce a new campaign should find the 'Challenge Board' on www.accessdenied.net to be useful.
The public beta test release was in November of '06 and it looked very promising. Unfortunately, it was abandoned and their website disappeared sometime in 2002. Even though the game was never completely finished, it was still quite playable. Some hardcore strategy gamers of the 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) genre were immediately attracted to it because of its unique features and open-ended game design. Further, the sheer size of the game was quite remarkable. It boasted support for up to 200 players and a vast game universe of up to 50,000+ star systems - with the possibility of each star system containing multiple planets! In comparison, most space strategy and exploration games only support a paltry few dozen (perhaps 50 to 100 or so) star systems and more often than not these had only one habitable world each. Truly, if there ever was a space game worthy of calling it's game universe a "GALAXY" then Xpace fits the definition!
