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Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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It made me quite happy to be able to leave the meeting entirely. Do you think you could turn this into an Ad-hoc D&D dungeon so that when you leave, you could take a party out into the rest of the "office" and fight mutated paperclips, overstuffed file cabinets, and disorganized supply closets?

Make the tileset and I'll make it happen :)

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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This is really neat. I logged in for a few seconds to check out the interface (should have taken a screenshot). The center of the meeting shows a large white square window and smaller colored squares indicating other meeting participants. You can drag your square (avatar) around the window to place yourself next to others.

I have a standing virtual happy hour with some friends every week. If I can figure out how to get this to work with my docker/traefik deployment, I'll have to try it with my friend group and see how it works.

Thanks for creating and sharing this!

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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post #13

This is really neat. I logged in for a few seconds to check out the interface (should have taken a screenshot). The center of the meeting shows a large white square window and smaller colored squares indicating other meeting participants. You can drag your square (avatar) around the window to place yourself next to others. I have a standing virtual happy hour with some friends every week. If I can figure out how to g…

Jitsi Meet itself is really easy to setup. My "game" is just a static HTML file that uses the Jitsi Meet web API, except for the volume control. Because Jitsi Meet's Web API installs through an iframe, I had to modify the web files for my install slightly.

It's one additional line in `/use/share/jitsi-meet/index.html` to include a very small JS file that sets up a RPC pipe between my window and the Jitsi Meet window.

Other than that, I wore everything in vanilla JS and HTML5, so there aren't any other dependencies to manage, no build systems to run. Just dump the files somewhere (I'm running the front end in Azure CDN right now) and go.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

#16

I think this is great. Thanks! I'm new to jitsi, so is this audio only or can you get a video to work as well? Lots of interesting things. Great work.

Jitsi does video by default. I turned it off because... The map is in the way, you won't see it. Plus, I plan to do customizable avatars.

I'm generally of the opinion that the video feed is useless in 90% of teleconferencing situations.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

#17

I think this is great. Thanks! I'm new to jitsi, so is this audio only or can you get a video to work as well? Lots of interesting things. Great work.

Jitsi does video by default. I turned it off because... The map is in the way, you won't see it. Plus, I plan to do customizable avatars. I'm generally of the opinion that the video feed is useless in 90% of teleconferencing situations.

I 90% agree with your opinion. A video does add some useful information, but 90% of the benefit could come from a small window of the person(s) you are talking to- maybe 90px by 90px.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jitsi does video by default. I turned it off because... The map is in the way, you won't see it. Plus, I plan to do customizable avatars. I'm generally of the opinion that the video feed is useless in 90% of teleconferencing situations.

I 90% agree with your opinion. A video does add some useful information, but 90% of the benefit could come from a small window of the person(s) you are talking to- maybe 90px by 90px.

Unfortunately, not going to work with how Jitsi does their Web API through an iframe. Ol' OpenTok, before they got bought out by Vonage, could have been used because they inftected new DOM elements into the current page. But with the Jisti Meet interface timing in an iframe, I just don't have enough access to composite things like that.

Re: Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet

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post #18
post #5

Would be cool to have a podium that a user can step up to and speak to all with no falloff. Perhaps with some sort of permission or nomination.

TSaaS (Talking Stick as a Service)

I got a phone call after posting this today that makes me think you might be able to find a VC in SV willing to pay for that.
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