Almonaster is a turn-based multi-player war game that runs on the web using form submissions as user input. The general objective of an Almonaster game is to develop a galactic empire, overcoming enemy empires and creating alliances with friendly ones. There is no artificial intelligence (yet); every other empire belongs to another player logged in from some other part of the world. A game ends when there are no more enemies left in the galaxy: either only one empire remains, or those that remain are all in a state of alliance.