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Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by zeeZ »

lewich wrote: post #10

https://tabletopia.com/ is not included in blog article, but is worth to try. Their library is huge and games there are very fun to play. Recommended.

The biggest flaw with this one is the lack of an undo button.

Interacting with stacks of cards is sometimes weird, and the physics get wonky, especially with hex tiles that snap to the board, but still don't align properly.

It works better the less objects are involved.

Playing "Wingspan", putting a card below another with eggs on top is dangerous.

Don't even try to play "Dominant Species".

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Post by JohnKacz »

mariusz331 wrote: post #19

We're working on an app for social/board games with built in video chat: https://www.cyberspaces.app Current we offer: Boggle (just released yesterday, feedback is especially appreciated) https://www.cyberspaces.app/boggle Codenames (we call it Cyberterms) https://www.cyberspaces.app/cyberterms Liar's Dice https://www.cyberspaces.app/liarsdice Kings https://www.cyberspaces.app/kings

Looks good. I'd love to know what stack you're building with and what you're learning.

After seeing the readastorytome.com Show HN [0] was using Phoenix LiveView I was considering building a similar app to play spades or 42 as an excuse to learn some things I've been wanting to learn for awhile.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836940

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Post by fovc »

vanattab wrote: post #58
kerkeslager wrote: post #39

Earlier 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…

You need to factor in frequency of landing and cost to build. Orange is in the sweetspot. IIRC, red gets landed on more often, but the extra $50/house makes it tough to build up. Green is crap on both accounts. Pink is less frequent but cheap to build. Light blue and purple are only good if you monopolize early and can drive a building shortage (get ready to be yelled at by anyone not intimately familiar with the rules). Boardwalk is mostly useful to tilt the balance in your favor on long games. (as you pass go and collect chance cards, $ in circulation go up over time, so it gets harder to bankrupt people)

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Post by staz »

Longwelwind wrote: post #65

I'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!

is it finished and playable?

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Post by joemasilotti »

pidg wrote: post #67

I 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…

You could try https://skillgamesboard.com

They offer Chess, Checkers, Reversi, Go, Connect Four, and the like.

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Post by Symbiote »

kerkeslager wrote: post #39
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #3

I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours. >In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid s…

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…

Most people play a modified version of the game, without the auctioning of property, and with additional money put into the game when landing on Free Parking. Most also play they game as children.

Without auctioning, and with the money from Free Parking, the game lasts longer, and is frustrating for the losing players -- particularly for children, who have to tolerate the gloating of the winning child.

It might be educational, but that doesn't make it fun.

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Post by kashyapc »

A few weeks ago I tried Tabletop Simulator with two other friends to play Gloomhaven[+]. I admire the developers that took on such a (positively) complex and rich game as Gloomhaven.

But it was a far cry from in-person playing (I realize). It's very much understandable—you just can't replicate that high-definition feeling you get from in-person game, especially from such a rich game. I was 'dejected' (again, that's not the right word) enough that I didn't try Tabletop Simulator anymore. Maybe I should try other games.

Man ... do I now wish that I hadn't turned down (with lazy excuses) all those in-person Gloomhaven sessions I was invited to.

Live and learn.

[+] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven

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Post by omega3 »

mariusz331 wrote: post #19

We're working on an app for social/board games with built in video chat: https://www.cyberspaces.app Current we offer: Boggle (just released yesterday, feedback is especially appreciated) https://www.cyberspaces.app/boggle Codenames (we call it Cyberterms) https://www.cyberspaces.app/cyberterms Liar's Dice https://www.cyberspaces.app/liarsdice Kings https://www.cyberspaces.app/kings

Doesn't work on Vivaldi: "Camera/Microphone Issue"
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