There's a slash missing from the end of the URL, so the links to games aren't working (for me anyway). If you start here, they will work: https://netgames.io/games/
Added above. Thanks!
Play social games with friends over Zoom
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Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#62I want to do this, but instead of it being games, more like listening circles oriented around human needs, envisioning the future, getting empathy and support, etc. as a means of some sort of eventual consensus building. i also have limited time to develop this because I'm a full-time parent. Anyone able to help or point me in a direction to keep the idea moving?
At a previous job, I used a tool that really gave a sense of presence that Zoom/Discord/Skype, etc, do not. I wish they had the right sort of payment model for it, but I'd look at Sococo (https://www.sococo.com/). I think something like this would be key to feeling like you are talking to humans and not, well, playing a computer game.
I've been looking for alternatives. There's one called Remo (https://remo.co/) that's similar, but seems to have a large group and tables for four people at the same time, so I don't think it'll fit your needs.
This one (https://github.com/capnmidnight/lozya) just showed up here on HN the other day, and is a new project to add a sense of presence on top of Jitsi.
There are also, apparently, Avatar Chat worlds, in 2D and 3D, and they might be worth trying, but it does look like it could really be distracting as it appears more game oriented than socialization oriented.
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#63Wouldn't use that for a meeting of cats. www.jitsi.org
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#64Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Catan on Saturday night, we used Discord for voice chat. We all have the boxed version but obviously we can't get together... [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam ( https://meet.jit.si/ ). Worked quite well. I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience. They're planning on Ris…
My buddies and I play Risk on http://landgrab.net and it's very nice, tons of different boards to choose from. We do 24 hour turns so it's different than playing live, it's more like correspondence chess.
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#65Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Catan on Saturday night, we used Discord for voice chat. We all have the boxed version but obviously we can't get together... [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam ( https://meet.jit.si/ ). Worked quite well. I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience. They're planning on Ris…
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Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#66We played racing karts on https://www.airconsole.com/ the other day with friends. We used WhatsApp for voice.
Would this be easy enough to setup for a class of 11-year-olds who'd all be in their own homes?
Each kid would need access to a computer (the screen) + a smartphone (the remote control.)
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#67If anyone wants to play taboo online: https://abidlabs.github.io/infinite-taboo/
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#68Seems like on desktop the links on the homepage are broken but they work from the hamburger menu. Interestingly, the homepage links work on mobile.
What browser and OS are you using? The links are working in all the desktop browsers I have a hold of.
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#69Seems like on desktop the links on the homepage are broken but they work from the hamburger menu. Interestingly, the homepage links work on mobile.
What browser and OS are you using? The links are working in all the desktop browsers I have a hold of.
Ah, must've been the lack of a trailing slash in the OP's link. Fixed now :)