"The Game of Life", or TGoL, is a semi-realistic, post-by-post, wolf roleplay site based around a chess metaphor for a war between two packs: Light and Dark Pack,
respectively, to match the light and dark pieces on a chess board. The wolves themselves don't know anything about chess of
course, only that they are locked in a seemingly eternal battle for the rights to their thriving yet limited land. Tensions are
high, blood has been shed, and all must be careful which move they make next, for it could either ensure a victory for them or the end of everything. You, as a player, may either play a wolf
from one of the packs, directly involved with the war in some way, or a loner on the outside, either looking in, taking advantage of the distracted packs, or staying out of
it all together.
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SPRING 01
The ice and snow of winter are finally starting to melt away as things warm up, making way for budding flowers, returning prey, and spring showers. Mating season is no longer in effect, but those whom did get pregnant should expect to give birth within the season, towards the beginning of Summer. Prey is steadily becoming a little more plentiful, which is good news, but all of the melting snow/ice and the spring showers are causing The Divide and Flatlands to flood, coaxing both packs to stay on their respective sides... lest they wish to get swept down stream.
4.26.2018 -
A new announcement has been made in regards to major revisions/additions to the site! Read here.
4.2.2018 -
An "Activity" section has been added to the Rules thread, since I realized this was never clearly defined. In addition to this, a thread for making characters inactive and a thread to take an offical abesence have been added. I've also enabled guests to be able to view the IC and Player Record Book boards in their entirety so you can get a feel for activity/characters before joining the site!
4.1.2018 -
The theme's been changed to have a little more color and to be a bit more visually appealing!
3.4.2018 -
TGoL has offically been completed and is now open to new members, so feel free to join and submit your characters for acceptance! We have many high rank positions open in both packs and would like to get those filled as soon as possible. Also, please advertise us to anyone you think might be interested!
Though I have no doubts there are many more kinks and bumps I need to smooth down, the majority of the site is finished enough to start allowing players! Now I have a LOT to say in regards to all of this, so let's just jump into it!
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1. Many important ranks are open and need to be filled. Both Light and Dark Pack need Kings and... members in general lol. These ranks are gonna go FCFS and will not be reservable as an incentive to get people to join, so snatch 'em up now while you can. Currently, the only taken rank of importance is the female "lead fighter" in Dark Pack; everything else is open! Now, if you want to be a King, there will be some requirements you have to meet; you'll need to be fairly active, capable of keeping the wolves in your pack in line, able to come up with events to keep the plot interesting, and willing to fill out your pack's google doc. I can help you with these things, but you still need to be willing to do them!
2. The neutral lands are pretty barren, but won't be forever. Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to come up with unique ideas for areas when I've already made so many for both packs and am limited to things that could reasonably exist within a valley in a rocky-mountain-like region... so I didn't make many places for loners. However, I do intend to make more, and would like to say that the existing areas are pretty big, so there's plenty of room to play. Maybe you guys can help me out by coming up with ideas and dropping them off here?
3. I really want some suggestions on how we can improve the site! You can submit these here. Suggestions include ideas for new features, areas, and color changes to the theme (maybe different themes per season?). Features can include things like an XP/health system, official hunting/fighting systems, prey/predator/NPC accounts, etc.
4. I will eventually be looking for staff positions. Not now though, since I want to focus on getting the site off the ground first.
5. Advertise, advertise, advertise! Please show us to anyone you think might be interested, including RL friends, online friends, other role play forums/sites, etc. Additionally, we will be featured in the "Top 100" websites found in the "Extras" tab, and it'd be really helpful if you could vote for us!
6. An event will be posted once we get at least 5 members (myself not included) OR at least 15 wolves (my two included, so 13 more). This event will either cover the entire valley, or there will be one event for either pack. Either way, their will be an event to help get the plot rolling, so don't be deterred by the slowness of activity! Additionally, while we wait to gain these members, you can drop off some ideas for this upcoming event and future events here! Your idea might be chosen.
