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How to play board games online with your friends
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Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#62After watching an attempt to make Scrabble work [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM ], I was thinking what games could work via a webcam if all players have the game. Thinking of games I've played recently, Dominion would work. Ticket to Ride wouldn't. On the Underground would, 1960 Making of a President wouldn't. Normal Settlers wouldn't, but the junior version of Settlers would The key thing is not drawin…
Dominion would indeed work with webcam, because everyone only shuffles their own cards, but you can only play with the cards that everyone has (if one player has an expansion and the others don't, you can't use it).
If all of your players already know how to play, I strongly recommend the official Dominion Online [0]! The base game is free, and the expansions are very affordable too ($1.95 for a month with half the expansions [the older ones], or $3.90 for all, no recurring charges, and only one player at the table needs to have bought them). Unfortunately it's not very intuitive as an introduction to the game because you don't get a good feel of where cards are coming from and going to, but once you know the game it's arguably better (because of the instant setup and shuffling, and automatic tracking of effects).
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm kinda surprised by all the hate on Monopoly. It's a great game for learning. It teaches you to take risks early and slowly lower your risk tolerance over time to let your existing assets appreciate. It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord. It teaches you that capitalism isn't fair, because good strategy and hard work don't p…
"It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord.” I thought the best properties in Monopoly where the opposite of this? It's my understanding that the best properties in Monopoly are orange followed by green then either red or yellow. Mostly the middle of the road properties. Orange is the best because it's approximately a 7 roll away…
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Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#64Any similar suggestions for card games, especially Poker?
I spent a good portion of my day searching for this yesterday (everything looks very shady). What i really want is a self hosted option but i have not found anything yet.
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#65I've been working on a free and open-source online implementation of the board game "A Game of Thrones (Second edition)":
https://swordsandravens.net/
The game can be daunting and long (~4 hours), but the gameplay is very cool!
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#66The site in the leading image is not mentioned elsewhere in the article, but it's Dominion, which can be played at https://dominion.games/ (Disclaimer: the online version is developed by a friend of mine. Not the original physical game of course, which is the best-selling game by Donald X. Vaccarino.)
I highly recommend people check out Dominion. Having played many years ago on isotropic and then less so when goko/makingfun took over, this implementation is pretty light and quick.
The games themselves go pretty fast, and there's enough expansions that every game shouldn't devolve into a solved format. (I say this as a casual player learning the new expansions). You get access to the base game for free, and the pricing model for the expansions is pretty fair in my opinion (~$5/month for all thirteen, ~$2.50/month for half). There's a matchmaker and custom games. Even bots for those who want to play solo.
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#67I wish there was a way to do this but with popular/classic board and card games instead.
My friends are, for the most part, not board game nerds. They want to play commercially successful games like Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Uno, etc. We've had a real struggle to find a sensible way of playing them.
Eventually we just had one household point a webcam at a physical copy of Trivial Pursuit and everyone else play via Zoom, which was less than ideal.
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#68I'm surprised there is no mention of jackbox. It's setup to be played by a whole load of friends around the same tv, using their phones as handheld answer devices. We made it work over discord video chat with one person sharing their screen and was a hoot. Quiplash is a lot like cards against humanity and drawful is neat play on pictionary.
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm kinda surprised by all the hate on Monopoly. It's a great game for learning. It teaches you to take risks early and slowly lower your risk tolerance over time to let your existing assets appreciate. It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord. It teaches you that capitalism isn't fair, because good strategy and hard work don't p…
"It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord.” I thought the best properties in Monopoly where the opposite of this? It's my understanding that the best properties in Monopoly are orange followed by green then either red or yellow. Mostly the middle of the road properties. Orange is the best because it's approximately a 7 roll away…
That's a pretty good hypothesis. I honestly don't know.
The reason I've preferred purple and (dark) blue is that they only require two properties to have a monopoly, so you can get monopolies sooner. It might be confirmation bias on my part, but my memory is that when I get these monopolies early it often prevents people from developing the orange properties. But like I said, I honestly don't know.
You're probably right that in the long run the orange properties would pay off the most based on being ~7 away from jail, but I wonder if games play out long enough for that to outweigh the effects of getting monopolies early.
Re: How to play board games online with your friends
#70A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it.
I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board.
We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spent over 10+ hours developing those rules and the story behind them.
If you haven't tried inventing a game yet, I'd highly recommend it. It's really fun! I personally enjoy it just as much as actually playing the finished game. And it's very rewarding the play something you crafted from scratch.
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBGlrMk4By5IZ28yCqq3vHAo...