About Planbeast

Planbeast is a free service for finding people to play your favorite Xbox 360 games with online. Planbeast allows you to schedule and join new online events for any title that supports multiplayer gaming over Xbox Live. You can set up private games for your friends, or public events that anyone can join.

Visit the Planbeast web site to browse upcoming events, or use any standard calendar application or RSS reader. Planbeast can also notify you about events you've signed up for, either by email or by Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger).

Why Planbeast?

If you want to play a top title like Halo 3 or Uno, it's easy to find a pick-up game on Xbox Live. If you want to play anything else? Not so easy. When you fire up one of these games and hit "Quick Match", you might get paired up with a complete stranger — if you're lucky. More likely, you'll see the sadly familiar message "No games available".

Surely, you're not the only person with an internet connection who loves this game. But how are you going to find its other fans, let alone agree on a time to play?

Enter the Planbeast. This service helps you schedule games, find out about other people's scheduled games, and rendezvous with the other players. It's a not a portal, a fan site, or yet another social-networking clone. It's a community tool for organizing multiplayer games.

Planbeast works great for more popular games, too! When you need a break from taking on all comers, you can easily plan a game with the folks you already know.

About Us

The Planbeast service is provided by Volity Games. We love all kinds of games, and spend our time thinking of new ways to make online gaming better.

Please check out the Planbeast Blog for the latest banter about how we're running this thing, and where we're steering it. You can also talk to us through this site's forums.

Meet the Beast

Rutherford T. Jaggymush is a green furry monster from, possibly, Proxima Centauri. He loves games too. He spends most of his time running around our database, filing events and sending out notifications. His hobbies are yo-yo dynamics, pie, and SQL query optimization.

Credits and Thanks

Xbox Live user data comes courtesy of DuncanMackenzie.net's REST API.

Xbox game data is provided by the 360Voice API.

Planbeast is powered by Catalyst, a web application framework for the Perl programming language. We use MySQL for its database.

The Planbeast logo, various website elements, and overall site layout were designed by Robert Oliver.

The little Twitter badge is from Aquaticus Social Icons.

All other design and original programming for Planbeast are by Volity Games, led by Jason McIntosh. If you like what you see here, consider hiring Appleseed Software Consulting, which is where Jason keeps his day job. :)

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