Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#41

Post by davidye » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 6:27 AM UTC

apatters wrote: post #40

davidye wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I need to clean up the marketing a bit! For now try it out by clicking the Play button on one of the games such as: https://screentop.gg/@BrotherMingGames/code-geass Also just posted a few screenshots on the product hunt page which may help clarify: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/screentop-gg

Is there mobile support? I tried to play with the 52 card deck on Firefox for Android and nothing was responding to my tapping. I second the call for having more info on the site about what this is, it looks very interesting

Mobile is not currently supported.

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#42

Post by darekkay » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:11 PM UTC

davidye wrote: post #2

Author here. Screentop is a tabletop sandbox that supports cards, dice, boards, counters, and hidden player state. In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more complex game mechanics and rules can be implemented. Client stack: Typescript, React, Apollo, and a custom react-reconciler renderer that targets canvas Server stack: Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe Happy to answer any questions and would love your f…

> In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more complex game mechanics and rules can be implemented.

You're probably aware of this library, but I highly recommend boardgame.io [1]. It also provides React components.

[1] https://boardgame.io/

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#43

Post by joshspankit » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

davidye wrote: post #30

skrowl wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This also makes it multiplatform. While (paid) TTS supports Windows, Linux and Mac, running on a web browser lets you play this (presumably) on an Android tablet, Chromebook, or iPad.

This only works on desktop right now but I do want to support other devices in the future.

Loads fine on my iPad and can’t play due to lack of touch, but came here to say my suggestion is allow users to tap the legend items (“Press space to flip”, for example)

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#44

Post by dane-pgp » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #35

IIAOPSW wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really need a word for when I'm pissed someone beat me to an idea but delighted that it exists because of them. I'd really like to know more on how to specify a game for your platform. A scripting language is a good idea, but I'd like to see it limited in scope. You don't want your board games to just become video games. I never could figure out where exactly those limits should be.

Serendipity+zeitgeist Serendeitgeist

Nice, or what about: gazumped + serendipity = gazumpdipity ?

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#45

Post by miohtama » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

Another well know platform: https://yucata.de/en

Also you can shop digital version of board games like Terraforming Mars in Steam.

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#46

Post by miohtama » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

Here is also a tutorial app for board games - Dizie tries to make board games more approachable by giving them similar tutorials as in video games.

https://dized.com/

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#47

Post by lightedman » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

Question: What's the difference between this and Tabletop Simulator?

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#48

Post by jpjuni0r » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 4:49 PM UTC

davidye wrote: post #2

Author here. Screentop is a tabletop sandbox that supports cards, dice, boards, counters, and hidden player state. In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more complex game mechanics and rules can be implemented. Client stack: Typescript, React, Apollo, and a custom react-reconciler renderer that targets canvas Server stack: Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe Happy to answer any questions and would love your f…

I'm curious what made you decide against Phoenix live view with an elixir backend

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#49

Post by somesortofsystm » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

I wish there were an open source, well defined DSL for how to describe board games. I suppose there is for things like chess, and custom games... Anyone know of such a language which aims to describe any such game?

Re: Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games

#50

Post by davidye » Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

darekkay wrote: post #42

davidye wrote: post #2

Author here. Screentop is a tabletop sandbox that supports cards, dice, boards, counters, and hidden player state. In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more complex game mechanics and rules can be implemented. Client stack: Typescript, React, Apollo, and a custom react-reconciler renderer that targets canvas Server stack: Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe Happy to answer any questions and would love your f…

> In the future I'd like to add scripting support so that more complex game mechanics and rules can be implemented. You're probably aware of this library, but I highly recommend boardgame.io [1]. It also provides React components. [1] https://boardgame.io/

I spoke to the guy behind boardgame.io a few months ago. Awesome engine but it's more geared towards building out the rules / mechanics of a specific game vs a sandbox approach.