llor.nu is a giant game of Monopoly. The author does not come out and say this on the about page, probably for legal reasons, but the concept is pretty much the same, except it is done on a much larger scale (around the world) and you play one turn a day.

I don’t think the gameplay will be very interesting, I don’t even know if you make any decisions, but the concept of making games like this that are web based intruige me. I played AstroWars for a few months and thoroughly enjoyed it. You log on a few times a day, spend 5 minutes choosing what to spend your accumulated resources on, what to research, and where to send your ships. That’s all! It is imposssible to spend more than 5 minutes at a time, unless you analyze everything. It is the perfect game to get addicted to, because it can’t suck hours out at a time! The real joy comes when you finally build up a fleet large enough to squash your neighbor. This also happens at its own pace as it literally takes days for your ships to travel to another planet. Alliances quickly form and those left alone are soon destroyed. The game resets every other month or so, once someone reaches X amount of points, or an alliance reaches X amount of average points.

I am on the lookout for simpler ideas to implement. Combining my long time desire to design games, and my current passion for web development would be awesome. Who knows, maybe it could implement some sort of swarm intelligence?