Editing Button Men (section)

==Online game==
''Button Men'' ''Online'' was a service that allowed users to play games over the [[internet]] via a web-based interface. In 2003, ''Button Men'' ''Online'' won the [[Origins Award]] for ''Best Play-by-mail Game of 2002''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/2002/list-of-winners |title=Origins Award Winners (2002) |publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design |accessdate=2007-10-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114163353/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/2002/list-of-winners |archivedate=2007-11-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In February 2012, ''Button Men'' ''Online'' went offline due to server problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bm-outage-news/conversations/messages/575| title=Buttonmen Site Outage News| accessdate=2015-06-05}}</ref> After nine months of downtime, a group of players from ''Button Men'' Online recreated an open-source version of the site. The new version of ''Button Men'' ''Online'' went online in March 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bm-outage-news/conversations/messages/641| title=Buttonmen Site Outage News| accessdate=2015-06-05}}</ref>